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This Rising Tide May Just Wash Us Away

By Ted Resnikoff

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Scientists Confirm Inevitable Sea-Level Rise

Like the tip of the fabled iceberg, the now confirmed inevitable rise of sea-level over the coming years hides social injustice that the Unitarian Universalist Association labors to undo. Just follow the causal chain to understand what rising sea-level means, then find out what the UUA is doing about it and join in.

Use this interactive slider to see what sea-level rise looks like.
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Learn more about the effects of global warming and climate change: Visit – Climate Central – Scientists and journalists researching and reporting facts about the impact of climate change on the American public. Read – West Antarctic ice melt is now ‘unstoppable,’ NASA report says (Aljazeera) New U.N. Report: Climate Change Risks Destabilizing Human Society (Slate) Watch – Sea Levels to Rise as West Antartic Ice Sheet Melts (Sydney Morning Herald and NASA) IPCC report: 'No one will be untouched by climate change' (Daily Telegraph)

Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)