Megacities Hit Hard by Surging Sea Levels Even at 2C Rise: Study

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Sydney, Australia. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care

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Large swathes of Shanghai, Mumbai, New York and other cities will slip under the waves even if an upcoming climate summit limits global warming to two degrees Celsius, scientists reported Sunday…

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Klaus Jacob, a research scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, says that society is still woefully unprepared for sea level increases later this century that will spare neither industrialized nor developing nations. We are still in denial that we can engineer ourselves out of this, says Jacob. “The only truly reliable solution is retreating from low-lying areas…

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