Posted on 10/17/2015 5:37:09 PM PDT by Libloather
Historic carbon emissions have already locked in enough future sea level rise to submerge most of the homes in each of several hundred American towns and cities, according to Climate Central-led research published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The animated timeline on this page maps, year by year, how the total number of locked-in cities could climb to more than 1,500, if pollution continues unchecked through the end of the century. It also lays out an alternative timeline based on extreme carbon cuts, leading to fewer than 700 locked-in cities. You can watch threats unfold nationwide or for individual states, and track the potential fate of each municipality. Click on the “Start” button to begin.
Our research does not project, and this animation does not show, exactly when sea level will reach heights great enough to pose these dangers — likely centuries. Rather, our findings assess when enough carbon pollution will have accumulated, under each scenario, to lock in future sea level rise posing existential threats for each town or city — sea level rise that could submerge land where more than half of today’s population lives. This summary discusses the research and findings further.
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Have all the trees gone on strike? Nature sucks.
nowhere in america is pollution going unchecked.
It doesn’t even take climate change.
Some of the historical storms we’ve had in the past, if we had them now, would do much more property damage since there has been so much building on the coast.
So they can predict what will happen to cities inhabited by future generations and we must do something, but giving those same generations massive debt that can only be paid by crippling taxes, well that’s OK.
It seems like accurately predicting next month’s weather day by day should be a snap for these geniuses.
Thanks - I was just going to post the link to that article.
It’s a killer isn’t it?
>>> sea level rise that could submerge land where more than half of today’s population lives.
While I am encouraged by this because those “at risk” cities are all Democrat, the reality is the sea-rise alarm is all a hoax.
Water seeks its own level, and so a sea rise in one place would mean a sea rise across the globe. Yet, I can find late 1600’s survey maps from my tidal-basin area that show the island borders to be essentially indistinguishable from those over 325 years ago. And those island have a max elevation of 3 feet, and so any “sea rise” would have been most definitely noticeable.
CORRECTION: to be essentially indistinguishable from those today
Martha's Vineyard---> ditto
Algore should know.
Tough to follow their map or maybe I’m just impatient. Just let me know when I’ll have to dock the boat a bit further inland.
On the positive side, Arizona will get a seacoast. Future generations will be puzzled by George Strait’s song about ocean-front property in Arizona (where he refers to it as if to something impossible).
On the positive side, Arizona will get a seacoast. Future generations will be puzzled by George Strait’s song about ocean-front property in Arizona (where he refers to it as if to something impossible).
“Water seeks its own level, and so a sea rise in one place would mean a sea rise across the globe. Yet, I can find late 1600’s survey maps from my tidal-basin area that show the island borders to be essentially indistinguishable from those over 325 years ago. And those island have a max elevation of 3 feet, and so any “sea rise” would have been most definitely noticeable.”
Well, you will have to enlist the “wisdom” of Cong. Hank Johnson, (Lawn Jockey, SC) to know if the islands are “in danger of capsizing!”
“>>> sea level rise that could submerge land where more than half of today’s population lives.”
Way cool! I live in the East Bay (that’s SF Bay) at about 250ft above sea level, and I look forward to being able to put in a dock! The other plus would be that the “undesirable element” around here would necessarily be “displaced.” Can Democrats swim?
There is an 1841 tidal benchmark on the Isle of the Dead near Tasmania that shows a 2-1/2cm rise since 1888.
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