• We should have said there is no chance of electrocution by the “Splash Controller” because “just 5 volts drive current through the water” (10 March, p 26). Volts do not “pass through” a conductor, as we said.
• Stefan Rahmstorf was aware that in Bermuda 400,000 years ago there was a high local sea level estimate, but he did not think it could be representative of global sea level at the time, as we incorrectly stated in our story (17 March, p 8).
