Source: USA Today —
Higher high tides, supercharged by rising sea levels, could flood all or parts of an estimated $34 billion worth of real estate along the nation’s coasts within just 30 years, a new report concludes.
Within the span of a 30-year mortgage, as many as 64,000 buildings and roughly 637,000 properties along the ocean and its connecting waterways could be at least partially below the tidal boundary level, the nonprofit Climate Central stated in a report released Thursday morning.
Seas are forecast to rise from 8 inches to 23 inches along the nation’s coasts by 2050, with the higher increases along the northern Gulf Coast and mid-Atlantic. As the oceans rise, every inch of additional water is expected to move farther inland making flood events worse and putting more properties at risk.
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C’mon Man! In 1902 the City of Galveston managed the “raising the elevation of some 500 city blocks anywhere from 8 to 17 feet”. Don’t you think given 30 YEARS advance notice, and with technology evolved over the past 120 years, that mankind can raise itself 8 inches to 23 inches”? Or, at the very least develop some other way to mitigate that minute ocean level change?
https://texashighways.com/culture/history/the-raising-galveston-after-1900-hurricane/#:~:text=Following%20the%20deadly%20storm%2C%20the,using%20stilts%2C%20jackscrews%2C%20and%20sand&text=In%20the%20aftermath%20of,its%20signature%20seawall%20in%201902.
You do know that Al Gore predicted this idiocy about 30 years ago. Look it up. Can’t control weather. Remember there’s just .04% co2 in the atmosphere and no carbon in h2o. Facts.