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How global warming is causing sea-level rise

Keah Schuenemann explains how global warming is causing sea-level rise through thermal expansion and melting of land ice.

Credit: Making sense of climate denial: Sea-level rise, originally published in Denial101x, University of Queensland / Global Change Institute, 2015 (CC BY 2.0)

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