New NASA tool can tell which glacier may flood your city as the planet warms

By pinpointing which specific glaciers and ice sheets are contributing to local sea level rise for individual coastal cities, scientists can paint a more complete and accurate picture of what global warming will mean for rising ocean levels.

"This study allows one person to understand which icy areas of the world will contribute most significantly to sea level change (rise or decrease) in their specific city," Eric Larour, one of the study's authors, told CNN.

Earlier this month, a major climate report released by the Trump administration revealed that global average sea level has risen by about 7-8 inches since 1900, with almost half of that rise coming in the last 25 years.

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed a tool that takes into account the rotation of the Earth and gravitational effects, which help to determine how specific melting points will impact certain cities.

In the study, the researchers "looked at 293 major port cities to allow coastal planners to readily calculate local seal level change," as well as know which locations of the Earth's polar ice cap melts present the biggest danger to them in particular.

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