00:00Imagine waking up to find the ocean closer than you ever thought.
00:03Scientists now say sea levels are already much higher than we believed.
00:07In some parts of the world, they are more than three feet higher right now.
00:10That means the crisis we thought was decades away is already knocking at our door.
00:15For years, experts relied on models to guess sea levels.
00:18But those models missed key forces like tides, winds, temperature, and ocean currents.
00:23A new study combed through 385 scientific papers, and it found something shocking.
00:28Ninety percent of them used assumptions instead of real satellite measurements.
00:33That blind spot means millions of people face danger sooner than expected.
00:37On average, global coastal waters are already a foot higher.
00:41In places like Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the rise reaches up to three feet.
00:45If sea levels climb another three feet, 37 percent more land could sink underwater.
00:51Up to 132 million people could be affected.
00:54Sea level rise is not a distant threat.
00:56It is here.
00:57And it is advancing faster than we ever planned for.
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