What’s up with sea level rise?
NASA scientists explain how series rising sea levels could be in a Google+ Hangout
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How much and how fast will sea level rise in the coming decades?
What makes sea level rise hard to predict?
Who will be affected?
NASA scientists and guests discussed this and much more in a Google+ Hangout on April 2, 2013.
Josh Willis, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: “If you look at the last 150 years there has been a rate of rise that is quite dramatic relative to anything that has happened in the last two thousand years”.
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