Hundreds of studies on sea level rise and coastal hazards have underestimated the height of the oceans by ~ 20 to 30 cm on average. In some places, they were > 1 m off.
Sea level rise is decades ahead of where we thought it was.
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Hundreds of studies have missed how much the oceans are rising
A widely used method to calculate sea level rise may have missed up to a century of change, so the risks could hit home for millions sooner than thought.