The BBC reports that climate change experts in North and South America are alarmed by the potentially devastating implications of higher estimates for possible sea level rises. At a meeting of in Copenhagen last month scientists announced areas at most risk are the Caribbean, Mexico, and Ecuador with New York City and southern parts of Florida being of lesser concern but still risky.

“These new data on sea level rises are alarming,” says Arnoldo Matus Kramer, a researcher on climate change adaptation at Oxford University.”When combined with the exponential growth of urbanisation and tourism along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican Caribbean, it is extremely worrying.” - BBC

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