By 2050, Rising Sea Levels & Coastal Flooding Could Wipe Out Major Cities, New Research

[appalachiablue]

'New Research Shows Rising Sea Levels Could Wipe Out Major Cities by 2050.' Truthout, Oct. 30, 2019.

Ho Chi Minh City, along with the rest of southern Vietnam, “could all but disappear” by 2050. Bangkok, Thailand, currently home to over eight million people, is under severe threat. Basra, Iraq, the nation’s second-largest city, “could be mostly underwater” by mid-century. Those are just some of the alarming conclusions of a new research paper on the dire global consequences of rising sea levels driven by the climate crisis.

According to the study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, “chronic coastal flooding or permanent inundation” due to rising seas could threaten three times more people than scientists previously believed if urgent action is not taken to establish protections and confront the underlying crisis.

-->STUDY, 'New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding'
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12808-z

The authors of the paper “developed a more accurate way of calculating land elevation based on satellite readings, a standard way of estimating the effects of sea level rise over large areas, and found that the previous numbers were far too optimistic,” the New York Times reported. “The new research shows that some 150 million people are now living on land that will be below the high-tide line by mid-century.”

Dina Ionesco of the International Organization for Migration told the Times that nations must begin preparing for massive internal relocations of citizens. “We’ve been trying to ring the alarm bells,” Ionesco said. “We know that it’s coming.”
The Times published striking graphics that contrasted the amount of land that could be underwater by 2050 under the old projections with the “horrifying” new projections.
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The effects of rising seas will be far worse than previously thought, wiping out entire cities by 2050, new data shows.
This is Alexandria, Egypt, under the old and new projections.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/29/climate/coastal-cities-underwater.html … @DeniseDSLu
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(More places at risk, at the link)

More, https://truthout.org/articles/new-research-shows-rising-sea-levels-could-wipe-out-major-cities-by-2050/



- Key Largo, Fla., a sign reads, "Salt Water; No Wake," as ocean water floods a street on October 22, 2019.

[TheRealNorth]

1. Poor people will die and lose their homes

But have no fear if you own a beach home in Florida or the Carolinas- the Republicans will be there for a "disaster relief" bill so that the climate change deniers will not have to pay as much for their idiocy.

[appalachiablue]

2. At present there's much to fear in the future, ugly and unjust.

>“The new research shows that some 150 million people are now living on land that will be below the high-tide line by mid-century.”

[mn9driver]

3. Global temperature isn't going to stop rising any time soon.

2050 temperatures are already pretty much baked in. If this new prediction is accurate (and it probably is), coastal cities should have started making plans to deal with this yesterday.

The way things are going, I expect those of us alive in 2050 (probably not me) will witness the abandonment of many, if not most of these places. The speed at which it is happening will overwhelm all but the wealthiest cities and countries.

[appalachiablue]

4. 'Eventually, We Will All Be Climate Refugees,' July 24, 19

..Suffice it to say, all of us now, if we live long enough, are likely to become climate refugees at some point … whether it be from lack of food and water, rising seas, wildfires, smoke, or extreme weather events. For many, their time as climate refugees has already begun.

A survey of the last 30 days of scientific studies and extreme weather events shows us the driving force behind these displacements: the mounting climate crisis. An early July heatwave across Alaska found temperatures in the state literally rivaling those in Miami, Florida. Alaska saw its warmest June ever recorded, with the average temperature a stunning 5.3 degrees Fahrenheit (5.3°F) above the normal average for that month … for the entire state. That month was the 16th in a row when the average temperature in Alaska was above normal...
https://truthout.org/articles/eventually-we-will-all-be-climate-refugees/

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[appalachiablue]

6. Thanks for adding these images, brutal