Climate Change Experts Despair Over US Attitude: "If completely melted, the Greenland ice sheet would add 25 feet to overall sea level and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would raise it by 16 feet.
This would be enough to swamp most of Florida, Bangladesh and Manhattan, he said.
'The sea level rise over the past century appears greater than what the model says it should be,' Oppenheimer said. 'The ice sheets may be contributing more than the models predict.' "
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