Rising Seas Are Likely to Sow Havoc Much Sooner Than Predicted

[ItsjustMe]

Rising Seas Are Likely to Sow Havoc Much Sooner Than Predicted

Around the world, communities are bracing for sea level rise: the Netherlands is stabilizing its dikes, Senegal is relocating neighborhoods, and Indonesia is moving its entire capital city. These projects are hefty, expensive, and slow.

But they may need to pick up the pace. As new research shows, in many places, sea level rise will cause coastal flooding and other disruptions much sooner than anyone realized. It’s not that the water is rising faster; it’s that the land was lower to begin with.

Calculating when a rising sea will flood any one place involves a lot of math: you need to know the height of the water, the range of the tide, the elevation and slope of the land, the pace of sea level rise, and how much the land itself is rising or falling, among myriad other factors. As with all of science, the accuracy of these predictions is only as good as the data flowing into them.

[PortTack]

1. Of the ten areas sinking the fastest NYC was like #8 and LA was #2 sinking at 5 cm a year

Both to be mostly underwater by 2075

[fierywoman]

2. Go to Venice/Venezia before it's gone.

[lapfog_1]

3. then there is Miami

the limestone rock that Miami is built on is just ancient coral reefs... water goes right through it... so no sea wall... amd you can't run enough pumps to move that much water.

[lark]

4. Miami and Baltimore are already routinely flooding.

It's only going to get worse.

[Darwins_Retriever]

5. I live in Orlando

and am looking forward to ocean front property.