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Research Shows West Coast Sea-Level Rise May Return

A climate cycle called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation has been churning cooler water up from lower depths along the West Coast since the 1970s.

1. The leader of the San Diego chapter of a Muslim advocacy organization said Monday they welcomed the "elimination'' of Osama bin Laden as a threat to the United States. Hanif Mohebi, the area's executive director of the Council on American-
Islamic Relations, told reporters that bin Laden never represented Muslims or the Islamic religion.

2. A San Diego-based aircraft carrier deployed in the northern Arabian Sea was used for Osama bin Laden's burial at sea, the Navy reported Monday. A Navy report cited top defense officials who said bin Laden was given an Islamic ceremony aboard the USS Carl Vinson within 24 hours of his death, in keeping with Muslin tradition.

3. Climate conditions that prevented a rise in sea levels along the West Coast during the last century might be coming to an end, researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography announced Monday. A climate cycle called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation has been churning cooler water up from lower depths along the West Coast since the 1970s. But studies of winds that impact the phenomenon show that could be changing, according to a report by lead author Peter Bromirski in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, published by the American Geophysical Union. If the water becomes warmer, the level could rise, with detrimental impacts for coastal development, beach erosion and wetlands, the studies indicate. Sea levels on the West Coast rose by .08 inch in the last century, but the rate increased by 50 percent in the 1990s, Bromirski said.

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