Los Angeles Times: The predictions only get worse.
In 2007, a United Nations panel of scientists studying the rise of sea level related to climate change predicted that, if nothing was done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, seas could rise by about 2 feet by 2100. By 2013, the panel had increased its forecast to more than 3 feet, which would put major cities at risk of flooding and storm surge.
Yet all along, the panel emphasized what it did not know. It expressed particular uncertainty about what could happen...