Tuesday, March 20, 2012

US coastal areas at risk with a 1 meter rise in sea level

There is an interactive map from the Surging Seas project of Climate Central showing vunerable areas in the US if sea levels continue to rise.  Ron Meador from MinnPost has a very good article on the subject with excellent links. 

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-maps-of-sea-level-rises.html
The most vunerable areas in the world are in Southeast Asia.  Millions of people have been displaced by heavy rains and storm surges in the past year.  If the projections are correct and the situation is much worse within the next decade, it will be interesting to follow the proposed solutions to the problem.  Will millions of people be permanently relocated to higher ground?  Will Geoengineering be used to cool the climate?

http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/maps/v.php?id=7864
Source IDRC - 2009 - The darker red areas are more vunerable to warmer climate change.


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