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 0.6m by 2100.
By 2013, the panel had increased its forecast to more than 1m, which would put major cities at risk of flooding and storm surge.
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