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Local Puget Sound to creep up, up

Under the study's worst-case scenario, which Mote stresses is highly unlikely, sea levels in Puget Sound could rise more than 4 feet by 2100. That would require a confluence of bad news: runaway greenhouse gas emissions; accelerated melting of glaciers on Greenland and Antarctica; and an exaggerated climate response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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