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A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Is Coming into View

Fred Pearce · 9 Apr 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Sea levels are much higher than flood-risk forecasts assumed.

    Their wordsSea levels are much higher than we thought. Real-world oceans are making a mockery of flood-risk forecasts based on crude global modeling.

  2. Our reading

    Coastal land almost everywhere is sinking faster than the seas are rising.

    Their wordsAnd to make matters worse, coastal lands almost everywhere are subsiding faster than anyone realized — often many times faster than the seas are rising.

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