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Climate change: Dams played key role in limiting sea level rise – Yahoo News Australia
Huge dam projects that came on stream in the 1970s substantially slowed the rate of sea level rise.
The construction of large-scale dams has played a surprising role in limiting rising seas, say scientists.
Over the past century, melting glaciers and the thermal expansion of sea water have driven up ocean levels.
But this new study finds that dams almost stalled the rising seas in the 1970s because of the amount of water they prevented from entering the oceans.
Without them, the annual rate of rise would have been around 12% higher.
Measuring how much the seas have risen over the past 100 …
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