global warming: Facts & Related Content
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- For the last twenty years, sea levels rose at twice their rate during the last century.
- Global temperatures could increase by as much as 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100.
- Surface ocean waters today are roughly 30 percent more acidic than at the start of the Industrial Revolution.
- In the last decade, the rate of Antarctica's ice mass depletion has tripled.
- Scientists predict that the Arctic Ocean will barely have ice before 2050.
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Key People
Klaus Hasselmann
German oceanographer
Tim Flannery
Australian zoologist
Roger Angel
American astronomer
