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UCLA's Laurence Smith deployed this autonomous drifter in a meltwater river on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet in July 2015 as part of an effort to understand the causes of sea level rise around the globe.

This new report includes"the most up-to-date, long term sea level rise projections for all of the United States and Territories," NOAA Administrator Rich Spinrad said during a news conference Tuesday , adding that"what we're reporting out today is historic." Nelson didn't skirt around the problem and its source, specifying that"the science of the last 20 years has settled the question of human behavior that is driving this climate change.""It's important to underscore that this report supports previous studies and confirms what we've known all along," Nelson said."Sea levels are continuing to rise at a very alarming rate, and it's endangering communities around the world.

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