A strategy to maintain the status quo is a road to failure. Climate change is not an existential threat unless we collectively decide to let it be.
Tag: Sea-level Rise
Greenland rises while Miami sinks
The Greenland ice sheet is disappearing, fueling sea-level rise and isostatic rebound
Coastal inundation: Death by a thousand cuts
Increasing high-tide flooding slowly destroys coastal communities.
Coastal Europe fights climate change and it is a big dam problem
Abandoning cities to rising oceans is expensive and protection may be a better path forward.
Meltwater Pulse 1A
Past sea-level increases far outpace our current rate of sea-level rise (36 cm/100 years).
Managed retreat – Words rarely spoken
Coastal flooding forces communities to make hard decisions about the future.
The Everglades water wars
Sea level rise impacts the Florida Everglades.
Rising seas: Let’s look at the numbers
Rising sea levels, a modern reality
Saltwater and sewers: A nasty combination
Corrosion, enhanced by saltwater, turns sewage pipeline networks into leaky sieves.
The case of Tuvalu
Tuvalu faces a crisis as it descends below the rising oceans