The issue focused on climate change as scientists concluded that scientists should focus more attention on sea level rise than scientists believed would occur during this century. Scientists argue that scientists needed to update their predictions because scientists knew climate change would occur but scientists believed sea levels would rise faster than scientists predicted. Scientists argue that scientists needed to update their predictions because scientists knew climate change would occur but scientists believed sea levels would rise faster than scientists predicted. Scientists estimate that sea levels could rise between six inches and nine inches over this century if greenhouse gases