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...seas to rise more than 4.6 ft. (1.4 m). The California government commissioned the institute's study, released on March 11, one of a number of forthcoming reports on how climate change will affect the coastal state and one of the most detailed analyses yet on the local impact of rising seas...
...level rise of 18 to 59 cm by 2100. But the IPCC numbers were based on older data and took into account only the thermal expansion of the seas. (Water expands as it heats, so warmer seas rise.) The IPCC did not factor in the potentially far greater impact of melting ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica - Greenland alone has enough ice to raise sea levels by more than 20 ft. At the time of the IPCC report, the polar ice sheets were clearly melting, but it wasn't clear how fast they were going or how they would respond...
...that he has become much stronger physically and he has also developed a solid approach to the game,” captain Harry Douglas says.And unlike many baseball players at this high level, Zailskas is not only willing to play anywhere, but has proven his ability to make an impact wherever the coaches tell him to go. “He is such a good athlete, he played three sports in high school,” Walsh says. “He’s just one of those guys that says ‘hey coach, put me anywhere...
...work reimburses me, but even if [fares] don’t impact me directly, it really stinks that it might go up and up and up,” said Dallas R. Menard, who was adding money to his Charlie Card at the Harvard Square T station yesterday...
...Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, addresses this nasty side effect in a paper slated for delivery at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna on March 11th. Costa urges countries to "look at drug control as a series of inter-related factors where each intervention has an impact on others," emphasizing the need to incorporate innovative and inclusive crime prevention methods in all efforts to reduce the drug problem rather than tackling each measure individually...