Controversial study that suggest sea level has risen very quickly during the last interglacial.
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Coral Fossils Suggest That Sea Level Can Rise Rapidly
Evidence from fossil coral reefs in Mexico underlines the potential for a sudden jump in sea levels because of global warming, scientists report in a new study.
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The study, being published Thursday in the journal Nature, suggests that a sudden rise of 6.5 feet to 10 feet occurred within a span of 50 to 100 years about 121,000 years ago, at the end of the last warm interval between ice ages.
“The potential for sustained rapid ice loss and catastrophic sea-level rise in the near future is confirmed by our discovery of sea-level instability” in that period, the authors write....
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/sc...=1&ref=science
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Like all science this is going to take some confirmation and reconciliation with other studies which suggest there are some physical limits to how fast ice can melt and effect sea level.
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