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| Why will sea level rise as the climate warms? |
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discussed the effect of changes in the size of |
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| glaciers
and ice sheets on sea level in the context |
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| of the
100,000 year glacial-interglacial cycles that |
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| have
characterized earth’s climate over the past 1 |
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| million years. |
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addition, sea level will rise as the climate |
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| warms due
to the thermal expansion of seawater-- |
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| i.e. the
fact that seawater expands as it warms. |
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