Shanghai may slip under the sea

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Shanghai - Rising sea levels due to global warming mean the gleaming skyscrapers of China's financial hub Shanghai could be entirely submerged in 600 years, a state newspaper said on Friday.

Academics worry that Shanghai, which state media report sank as much as 2.63m between 1921 and 1965 due to the overpumping of underground water, may descend further under the weight of a construction frenzy of the past decade.

The sea had risen 20mm since 2000 and should keep climbing over the next decade, the Shanghai Daily said, citing a report from the State Ocean Administration.

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1. Rising sea level

Maybe they should do what the Dutch have been doing successfully for the past few hundred years and build dikes?

"..May slip under the sea." is misleading, Shanghai isn't going anywhere.