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Sea levels could rise more than a metre by 2100 threatening ten percent of the world's population unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed, scientists have warned.
Warming oceans and melting glaciers and polar ice sheets mean some 600 million people living in low lying coastal areas are in danger being flooded, according to research presented at last week's (March 10-12) International Scientific Congress on Climate Change at the University of Copenhagen.
Sea levels could rise more than a metre by 2100 threatening ten percent of the world's population unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed, scientists have warned.
Warming oceans and melting glaciers and polar ice sheets mean some 600 million people living in low lying coastal areas are in danger being flooded, according to research presented at last week's (March 10-12) International Scientific Congress on Climate Change at the University of Copenhagen.
