The
Independent: So much water is now stored in dams that it's
having a profound influence on the rate at which sea levels are
rising says a new paper by Chao, Wu, and Li of the
National Central
University in Taiwan. Their research was recently
published
in Science Express.The new research suggests that, over the
past 50 years, new dams and reservoirs have held back some
10,800 cubic kilometres of water, which would have been enough
to raise global sea levels by about 30mm
says
Steve Connor, the Independent's science reporter. In other
words, the rises we have seen so far due to global warming
might have been considerably larger if it were not for the huge
numbers of dams and reservoirs built from the 1950s onwards.
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Level (Science Express)
