This article caught my eye.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147435/taking-a-measure-of-sea-level-rise-ocean-altimetry
Here's a link to the whole Earth Observatory Sea Level Rise collection
I am remembering that in 1996, when I started teaching Environmental Science on the island of Saipan, it was difficult to find news articles online to print for student use. There were very few. Even before this, I had taught Environmental Science for a number of years in Chuuk Lagoon, predating, I think, the Internet. Needless to say, there was Zero presence of news articles about Sea Level Rise.
Sadly, there are places on the globe, even today, where sea level rise is an actual fact of every day life, but where no Internet resources are available to educate or prepare the islanders or their decision making leaders.
It is a profoundly obscene actuality: publishers of scientific journals want to charge even those islanders---assuming any ability to access them through the Internet---up to or more than 52.00 for a single article. These islanders do not use or carry money.
Such arrogance. How arrogant we are.
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