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Maps Depict China's Coasts Under Dramatic Sea Level Rise
2015-05-19 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Roughly 43 percent of China's population lives near the coast a region that is expected to experience dramatically rising sea levels if global warming continues along its current trajectory. What will China's coast look like far in the future if polar ice sheets and glaciers undergo extensive melting? Cartographer Jeffrey Linn has used projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to depict the impact of a 200-foot rise in global sea level. In this map, he shows the potential...
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