Video: Rising Seas Projected to Flood Bay Area Airports

June 22, 2012, 1:53 pm • Posted by KQED News Staff and Wires
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In the future, more of California will be under water. As global temperatures increase, melting the polar ice, sea levels will rise. And the water is likely to lap over Bay Area airport runways. So says the National Research Council, a division of the US National Academies of Science, which also released this video on the topic.

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