Nation Rising waters: Climate change could push a century’s worth of sea rise in US by 2050, report says February 15, 2022 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Comments Off on Rising waters: Climate change could push a century’s worth of sea rise in US by 2050, report says The U.S. is expected to experience as much sea-level rise by the year 2050 as the previous 100 years, according to a new federal report.