Rising Sea Levels Will Displace Nearly a Billion People in Coming Decades
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When climatologist Dr. Twila Moon described a future of climate change-caused horrors as “baked in,” she may not have intended to create a darkly apt pun for global warming. Certainly the future she laid out for sea level rise, a term for an increase in the level of the world’s oceans, is a very grim one. As humans burn fossil fuels and emit so many greenhouse gases that they unnaturally overheat...