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The government is warning that climate change could cause increase in amount of ocean waters to rise far higher than previously an increase in sea-level by as much as 10 feet by the end of the century.

The council analyzing the report released this month by a California Ocean Protection Council advisory team. The council adopted an updated report with higher sea-level estimates.

The prediction to the Louisiana governor’s declaration of an emergency over the state’s vanishing coastline. Louisiana could lose as much as 2,250 square miles of shoreline to rising waters in the next 50 years, Gov. John Bel Edwards noted.

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Miami also faces a dangerous increase in sea level. A study in Nature Climate Change last week warned that 2.5 million Miami residents could be driven from their homes by 2100. 

In the worst-case scenario in California, waters would rise in the coming decades some 30 times faster than in the last century, according to the Ocean Protection Council report.

Without a dramatic change in fossil-fuel emissions, a separate study this month by the U.S. Geological Survey estimated, rising sea level would wipe out up to 67 percent of the beaches in Southern California by 2100. 

The team studied earlier estimates upward because ice sheets in the Antarctic and Greenland are melting at an increasingly rapid pace. In addition, global warming effects are already being seen, and new discoveries have added to scientific knowledge about what’s happening, according to the report. The report was last revised four years ago.

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California has some of the toughest anti-pollution measures in the nation, yet its 1,100-mile coastline is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Researchers now believe Antarctic ice melts hit the West Coast particularly hard because of the Earth’s rotation and gravitational pull on ocean waters. For every foot of global sea-level rise caused by the loss of ice on West Antarctica, sea-level will rise approximately 1.25 feet along the California coast, the report notes.

The Ocean Protection Council was created by California to help prepare for the consequences of rising ocean levels, including property destruction and economic impact.