Some comments on that report....thought the reporter might have overblown the amounts.
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Schadow says:
How soon we forget the true reason for the deceleration in sea level rise. It was foretold by Barack Obama in a campaign speech on June 3, 2008. A portion follows:
… I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal… This was the moment — this was the time — when we came together to remake this great nation…
/sarc