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Letter: On the global issue of rising waters

Published 9 March 2022

From Eric Kvaalen,Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

Claims by climate scientists that a 5-metre rise in sea level by 2150 would be “an unimaginable disaster” seem an exaggeration (26 February, p 44). The Day After Tomorrow managed to imagine something far worse. And I don’t see why sea level rise should cause a “massive refugee crisis” either. We are talking about a process that takes generations, giving time to prepare.

Issue no. 3377 published 12 March 2022

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