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GWEN IFILL: But, first, a trio of new studies provide new alarm about rising sea levels, and the prospect of further flooding along the coasts. Among them, seas rose faster during the past century than at any point in the last 2,800 years. Hari Sreenivasan is here with more on the story. HARI SREENIVASAN: Scientists say this is more definitive proof that human actions are contributing to sea level rise. Already, coastal cities like Charleston, South Carolina, and Miami, Florida, for example, are facing more flood days than in decades past. The global climate conversation is working toward keeping temperature rise limited to two degrees Celsius, and even under that scenario, as this animation shows, cities like Washington, D.C., and its well-known landmarks could look very different one day, albeit several hundred years in the future. One study estimated that sea rise level could be as much as four feet higher by the end of this century under more dire scenarios. Benjamin Strauss is with Climate Central, a research organization that worked on some of this. So, Benjamin, when you see your graphs at the very end of it, theres this almost hockey stick effect. What is it that caused that acceleration of sea level rise? BENJAMIN STRAUSS, Climate Central: The sea level is extremely sensitive to global temperature. And by burning fossil fuels and putting carbon in the atmosphere, we have heated up the planet a great deal over the last century. HARI SREENIVASAN: So, how do we know in these models — how do you build these models to figure out what sea level rise was like going back 2,000 years? There wasnt somebody with a stick saying, here it is at 2.5 feet, here it is at three. BENJAMIN STRAUSS: Yes, its true. So, there was a lot of detective work involved. Scientific teams around the world have been studying coastal marshes, taking cores, looking for clues about where things grew, at what times. And this study is special, in that it went beyond each of the individual studi