And it's scheduled to happen SOONER than you might think ...
Study: 5 million face increased flooding risk
CNN -- March 14, 2012
Rising sea levels combined with storm surges will put more than 5 million people on U.S. coastlines at risk of flooding during the next 30 years, according to new research.
The combination could raise sea levels during storms to 4 feet above the high-tide line, threatening property that contains 2.6 million homes on 3 million acres of land, according to the report released Wednesday by Climate Central, a nonprofit research and journalism organization based in New Jersey.
“Escalating floods from sea level rise will affect millions of people, and threaten countless billions of dollars of damage to buildings and infrastructure,” Climate Central's Ben Strauss, the lead author of the report, said in a statement.
The report, titled "Surging Seas," is based on two new peer-reviewed studies, both published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Climate Central calls it "the first major national analysis of sea level rise in 20 years."
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Yeah but high tides and storm surges don't count -- do they?
They do now ... at least according to the science-based, peer-reviewed journal Environmental Research Letters.
And sometimes, they "count" an awful lot ...
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Well what cities might have to migrate their populations to higher ground, assuming -- just pretending now -- that Global Warming is a bit more than "just an unproven theory"?
New figures: More of US at risk to sea level rise
CBSNews.com -- March 14, 2012
Global warming-fueled sea level rise over the next century could flood 3.7 million people in 544 U.S. cities temporarily, according to a new method of looking at risking of rising seas published in two scientific papers.
The cities that have the most people living within three feet (one meter) of high tide — the projected sea level rise by the year 2100 made by many scientists and computer models — are in Florida, Louisiana, and New York. New York City, often not thought of as a city prone to flooding, has 141,000 people at risk, which is second only to New Orleans' 284,000. The two big Southeast Florida counties, Miami-Dade and Broward, have 312,000 people at risk combined.
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The studies look at people who live in homes within three feet of high tide, whereas old studies looked just at elevation above sea level, according to work published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Research and an accompanying report by Climate Central. That's an important distinction because using high tide is more accurate for flooding impacts, said study co-author Jonathan Overpeck, a scientist at the University of Arizona's Institute of the Environment. And when the new way of looking at risk is factored in, the outlook looks worse, Overpeck said.
Sea level has already risen about 8 inches since 1880 because of warmer waters expand, Strauss said.
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Online: Climate Central: ClimateCentral.org
Wow you mean this has
already been happening -- that sea levels have been rising, because they have been warming?
Why didn't anyone warn us? Why doesn't somebody DO SOMETHING!?
Good questions. Especially now that 30-year storm surge threats, makes those Warming Impacts so much more real, than a some sort of Water World a hundred years from now.
It means it might even effect US -- or maybe even today's kids ...
(... well that looks "Inconvenient")
Preparing for Sea Level Rise -- Plans, Actions and Resources
SurgingSeas.org a project of ClimateCentral.org
Surging Seas -- State Fact sheets
State-by-state facts and findings for sea level rise and storm surge threat
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Imagine the quandary of those Real Estate agents pitching to their prospective buyers:
"You know what they say about Beach-front Property, don't you?"
"They're not making any more of it."
... Wait a minute, on second thought, maybe they are ...
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