A polar science conference is going on in Oslo, Norway at the moment.
It will cover a whole range of subjects to do with the Arctic and Antarctic regions from penguin studies to climate change.
One comment of note so far was from Professor Tim Naish, Director of the Antarctic Research Centre at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He said that scientists were "...converging on agreeing a sea level rise of 1m by the end of the century." Which is double the figure in a recent UN report. Naish even thought the prediction could go as high as 2 metres.
For the 150 million people currently living within a metre above sea-level, that's bad news.
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