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Michael Lemonick, ”The Secret of Sea Level Rise: It Will Vary Greatly by Region,” March 22, 2010, Yale Environment 360.

128 for a mixture of complicated reasons

OurAmazingPlanet Staff, ”City of Venice Still Sinking, Study Says,” March 21, 2010, /8301-205_162-57401506/city-of-venice-still-sinking-study-says/; Forrest Wilder, ”That Sinking Feeling,” Texas Observer, November 1, 2007.

129 between South Carolina and Rhode Island, for example

Asbury Sallenger, ”Hotspot of Accelerated Sea-Level Rise on the Atlantic Coast of North America,” Nature Climate Change 2 (May 2012).

130 salt.w.a.ter intrusion into drinking water wells and aquifers

Cameron McWhirter and Mike Esterl, ”Salt.w.a.ter in Mississippi Taints Drinking Supply,” Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2012.

131 Approximately 30 percent of human-caused CO2 emissions

C. L. Sabine et al., ”The Oceanic Sink for Anthropogenic CO2,” Science, July 16, 2004.

132 oceans more acidic than at any time in the last 55 million years

Andy Ridgwell and Daniela Schmidt, ”Past Constraints on the Vulnerability of Marine Calcifiers to Ma.s.sive Carbon Dioxide Release,” Nature Geoscience 3 (February 2010).

133 faster than at any time in the last 300 million years

Barbel Honisch et al., ”The Geologic Record of Ocean Acidification,” Science, March 2012.

134 ocean acidification global warming's ”evil twin”

”Ocean Acidification Is Climate Change's 'Equally Evil Twin,' NOAA Chief Says,” a.s.sociated Press, July 12, 2012.

135 several events in the s.p.a.ce of a few years can and do kill the reefs

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