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Studies have also indicated that sea level rise will vary regionally because shifts in ocean currents will likely direct more water to certain coastlines, including the northeastern United States.APRepresentative.
A recent study has revealed that sea level rise this century may disproportionately affect certain Asian megacities as well as western tropical Pacific islands and the western Indian Ocean...
The study showed that internal climate variability could increase sea level rise in some locations by 20-30 per cent more than what would result from climate change alone, exponentially increasing extreme flooding events, it said...
But, in a worst-case scenario, they could occur 96 times more often based on a combination of climate change and internal climate variability, it said.. Internal climate variability will also increase sea level rise along the west coasts of the United States and Australia, it said...
"In a worst-case scenario, the combined effect of climate change and internal climate variability could result in local sea levels rising by more than 50 per cent of what is due to climate change alone, thus posing significant risks of more severe flooding to coastal megacities and threatening millions of people," said Hu...
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