Map Shows Where Sea Level Rise Will Drown American Cities

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A new map from Climate Central shows how the water will flow into hundreds of US cities under the best and worst global warming scenarios. It uses data from an accompanying study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that links CO2 to sea level rise to the topographic contours of the coastal US…

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