Rise in sea levels and effects on people as part of climate change is summarized in this article.

[Skidmore]

Be sure to follow the link in the article to the interactive map.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/24/3430234/sea-level-rise-new-england/

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As New Jersey residents loft their rebuilt homes onto five foot pilings along the shore and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio promises to get work started on 500 storm-demolished homes before Hurricane Sandy’s two year anniversary, a new sea level rise analysis has found that $32 billion in property and 84,000 people are at risk of extreme coastal flooding in five New England states.

As part of its Surging Seas initiative, Climate Central is using data from federal agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Geological Survey, among many others, to map sea level rise by zip code in an interactive tool that also shows the number of people and the value of the property at risk.

The mapping tool was launched in 2012 for New York, New Jersey and Florida. Now, data on Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine and Connecticut is also available. Of the states just added to the map, Connecticut has the highest value of property at risk from coastal flooding — $14.9 billion. For its part, Massachusetts has about 47,888 people who would be endangered by a four-foot flood. The odds of such a flood occurring in Boston in the next 15 years is 67 percent. Most at risk are the 17,662 people who are highly vulnerable to flooding because of their social and economic situations.... more

[SomethingFishy]

1. K&R

When are people going to figure out that Climate Change is the most important issue that is being ignored right now?

[2naSalit]

2. Most likely

only when it disrupts their "lifestyle" to the point they realize they should have been paying attention. That would be when the TeeVee doesn't work and they can't charge their iphones... and when they can't get to the nearest fast food joint and they can't afford the few items they might find in a store.

ETA: or when they can't breathe and there's no water to drink.

[SomethingFishy]

3. Yup.. in other words, when it's too late.

and the sad part is it's already too late, now we need to control the amount of damage...

[2naSalit]

4. Precisely. nt

[FSogol]

5. When they need swimming lessons.

[Edim]

6. Recent paper on the rate of sea level rise:

"Since the early 1990s, sea level rose at a mean rate of ~3.1 mm yr?1. However, over the last decade a slowdown of this rate, of about 30%, has been recorded. It coincides with a plateau in Earth’s mean surface temperature evolution, known as the recent pause in warming"
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2159.html

[SomethingFishy]

8. Oooh, it's only rising at 70% of the "Mean Levels"

Thank god for that, now we can just ignore it..

There is no more room for denial. To ignore Climate Change is to be fool enough to... shit where you eat.

[RobertEarl]

9. Insurance companies are not ignoring it

They tried and it cost them lots of profits.

The insurers are the only establishment group that sees this as losing money. The rest of the establishment sees $+$ signs and disaster capitalism profiteering.

The insurers have to be careful tho..... they live on pilings propped up in the sand themselves.

[Edim]

10. We should observe and study it, not ignore it.

The Orwellian "Climate Change" can be ignored or laughed at.

[SomethingFishy]

12. We've been "observing and studying" it for years and years...

And right now we are 60 years ahead of the absolute worst case scenario described by climate scientists just 8 years ago. When exactly is the time to do something about it? We aren't talking about something that is going to happen in a few hundred years anymore. Climate change is being felt right now.


And frankly "Orwelllian" is not a word that has anything to do with climate change, or the reaction to it. I'll just come out and say it again. If you are a climate change denier, you are either a fool, or you have an agenda. Period.

[Edim]

13. Orwellian is exactly the word.

When you say 'Climate Change' and mean anthropogenic climate change. We cannot do anything about climate change. That would be like doing something about seasons.

When we drop the Orwellian language, then we might see clearly. No need to hurry - nobody is doing anything about it. All the talk and activity (like Kyoto or renewables - see Germany for example) hasn't reduced any human CO2 emissions (the alleged main factor), except making the rich richer and poor poorer.

[AverageJoe90]

11. That may be true, but we still can't ignore it. nt