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Dangers aren't just from fire, but water as well. a new report released tuesday from climate research organization called climate central warns that some new elevation data triples some estimates of global vulnerability to sea level rise and flooding. all right, translation, new data is telling us that the dangers of climate change are simply way worse and the impact will impact many more people, and it's all happening much sooner than any of us thought. "the new york times" laid these findings out very helpfully in some graphics, flagging the news for those of who us might not be up to date o...

Your report? >> yes, well, first of all, thanks so much for having me to discuss this important topic. and you're exactly right. there's no new projection of the speed of sea level rise or climate change here. but we had something that seems very simple wrong. we had our elevation data wrong. so what this study -- >> why is that? what does that mean for folks? >> you know, here in the united states, we have good -- we have good information. on the elevation of land above water. but globally, in a lot of places, in asia and africa, latin america, we don't have very good data. it's, you know, wh...