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The rising sea level is credited to thermal expansion - a rise in global average temperature which causes the ocean to expand and occupy more volume - melting glaciers and ice caps and melting ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland, said Bradley Romine, a coastal management specialist with the Sea Grant Program at the University of Hawaii.
Scientists say rising sea will pose threat to Hawaii by 2100 →
