New study backs UN panel on ocean rise
The UN's climate panel has been backed over a key question as to how far global warming will drive up sea levels this century, a study published on Sunday says.
The UN experts are right that the oceans are unlikely to rise by an order of metres (many feet) by 2100, as some scientists have feared, it says.
But, its authors caution, low-lying countries and delta areas could still face potentially catastrophic flooding if the upper range of the new estimate proves right.