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It turns out that sea levels around the world may rise even faster than had already been anticipated. Most climate models do not take into account the rapid breakup of glaciers and instead measure temperature on the surface of glaciers and how much they would be melting due to that. The ocean has risen 1.9 millimeters within the past year, and ice sheets are contributing to this ascension to make the ocean grow at a quicker pace. The current calculations predict that in a worst-case scenario, the ocean will grow 6.4 meters within the next century, but even that may be false optimism, as that does not take into account the breaking, or melting, of glaciers underwater.
This rapid melting of the ice in Greenland and Antarctica will cause the ocean to rise a considerable amount in our lifetime, drastically changing the lives of those along the coast. Florida in particular is vulnerable to rising ocean levels because of its porous soil. In Indonesia, where the effects of melting ice caps are felt the most, people that have lived along the coast for generations are being forced to move further inland and try to make a living in the major cities of Indonesia, further adding to the already overcrowded cities. This same effect may be experienced here in Florida as well; the potential rise of 6 meters of water will drastically reduce their coastline to the point where Miami, Jacksonville, Orlando, and Fort Lauderdale would all be underwater. This scenario is not one that is as distant as once believed, with the realization that ice glaciers melting underwater contribute a substantial amount of water to the oceans.
http://www.livescience.com/51990-sea-level-rise-unknowns.html
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