Dams slowed down ocean sea level rise
The Independent: So much water is now stored in dams that it's having a profound influence on the rate at which sea levels are rising says a new paper by Chao, Wu, and Li of the National Central University in Taiwan. Their research was recently published in Science Express.
The new research suggests that, over the past 50 years, new dams and reservoirs have held back some 10,800 cubic kilometres of water, which would have been enough to raise global sea levels by about 30mm says Steve Connor, the Independent's science reporter. In other words, the rises we have seen so far due to global warming might have been considerably larger if it were not for the huge numbers of dams and reservoirs built from the 1950s onwards.
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