Posted on 02/15/2011 7:09:19 PM PST by mdittmar
Researchers say rising sea levels will affect major U.S. coastal cities by 2100, with the Gulf and southern Atlantic coasts particularly hard hit.
Research led by University of Arizona scientists suggests rising levels could threaten an average of 9 percent of the land within 180 U.S. coastal cities by the end of the century.
The study is the first analysis of vulnerability to sea-level rise that includes every U.S. coastal city in the lower 48 states with a population of 50,000 or more, a UA release said Tuesday.
Scientific projections of global warming indicate that by 2100, the sea level will rise one meter -- about 3 feet.
"According to the most recent sea-level-rise science, that's where we're heading," said lead researcher Jeremy L. Weiss of UA's department of geosciences. "Impacts from sea-level rise could be erosion, temporary flooding and permanent inundation."
The coastal cities the team identified had a total of 40.5 million people living in them by 2000 U.S. Census figures, and 20 of them have more than 300,000 inhabitants.
"Our work should help people plan with more certainty and to make decisions about what level of sea-level rise, and by implication, what level of global warming, is acceptable to their communities and neighbors," said co-author Jonathan T. Overpeck, a UA professor of geosciences and of atmospheric sciences.
If the research had been done in New Mexico it would have been more plausible.
I don’t live too close to any cities, so I guess I’m OK.
Revenge is best served cold.
I think if you announced that university research grant monies were available which amounted to billions over decades, proving that Lucy is going to let Charlie Brown kick the football, we’d all be getting scientific studies announcing that in 2067, Charlie will in fact kick the football, hitting at the same time small children and elderly.
You guys really don’t get it. For the next 80 years we are going to have excessive snowfall. When it melts it has no where to go but out to sea. See the sea levels will rise.
Q.E.D.
There they go again.
Don't these incompetents ever give up?
Seems like those researchers need new leadership.
When The University of Arizona wannabes can show me bonae fides like this famous researcher/sea level expert, I might listen to them. I don't expect to have to waste my time.
With an honored proven record.
He’s inept.
I’m still waiting on funding for my great lakes whale research.
>sea level rise
>for cities
Did you miss 6th grade Earth- Science class? Its precipitated back into the atmosphere.
The sea is receding in northern latitudes. Many ancient ports in Scandinavia and other northern climes are finding themselves a good distance away from the waters' edge(e.g., Kokkola, Finland). That means, physics non-majors, that the sea MUST RISE in the lower latitudes. This has nothing to do with global warming, unless the complaint is that the ice age ended and now we have to deal with the horrible consequences.
We’re doomed, I tell ya, doomed!
This is settled science - there is NOTHING scientific about any Global Warming prognostications.
One meter? A yard (more or less)? I'm at 309 feet above sea level. Bring it on! LOL
Not again is right, particularly since Arizona is totally landlocked. Way too much sun and cactus juice.
It’s only Bush’s fault!
It’s only Bush’s fault!
Well..they better quit putting so many people in them. They’re sinking the land.
The sea is not rising as you said. Venice is sinking because of water being pumped out of the ground for use in agriculture and drinking on the mainland. This is a very common when large amounts of water are pumped out of the ground.
More ice, try this! Carjam: Bentley Ice Speed Record 205.48mph 15 Feb 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akvEFMI2UPQ WOW!
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