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Topic Title: Sinking feeling: experts warn coastal towns should be 'abandoned' due to rising sea levels Topic Summary: Created On: 08/24/2019 10:27 AM |
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08/25/2019 06:11 AM
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Please, let's talk sensibly about this. Here is a link to one of the Harvard studies.
Some upsetting, but starkly real, excerpts: >>. Of particular concern to human civilization is the fate of the world's coastal cities. Conservative estimates of sea level rise by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) project increases of more than half a foot to two feet by the year 2100. More up-to-date analyses by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, which account for the effects of melting ice sheets around the globe, suggest that sea level will rise three feet to as much as five feet or more by 2100. Ninety years from now, in other words, vast densely populated coastal areas around the world will be underwater, including major cities - unless they prepare. << >> Kayden notes that the calculus over how many inches or feet, and by when must be coupled with the one certainty of politics: it moves slowly. "When you begin to align political terms of office, expenditures of money, and [questions such as] who wins, who loses, who pays," he says, "that constellation leads to a lot of thinking, but it doesn't lead to action. << >> Even a modest rise in sea level - the 12 inches expected by 2046 or sooner, for instance - combined with a powerful storm, a high tide, and the right winds, would make most of Boston briefly part of the Atlantic Ocean. Flooding from storm surges would be accelerated by modern conduits like sewers, subway tunnels, and turnpikes, and by square miles of impervious surfaces that don't soak up water but instead channel it into the heart of the city's infrastructure. << http://environment.harvard.edu/node/3272 ------------------------- Dora Hates You |
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