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Which cities are in the greatest danger from rising sea levels?
We be familiar with the basic idea: global warming melts polar ice, sending swells of ocean water toward our shores – and after becoming engulfed in an definitely blue world, people grow gills and are somehow turning pee into drinking water.
Sounds crazy? Of course it does – acknowledge gratitude you, Kevin Costner. But the basic idea of entire cities across the world becoming well beyond waterlogged is, in fact, a reality. And a terrifying one at that.
According to measurements by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), rising sea levels will be a huge omen to even the most advanced cities - not to mention small, island nations – with predicted levels twice as ear-splitting as originally thought.
If global temperatures continue to increase at the current rate, by the year 2100 isle nations such as the Maldives in the Indian Ocean and Tuvalu in the Pacific would be entirely engulfed by ocean waters, while rising levels will discomfit coastal cities such as Calcutta and Dhaka.
Modern-day metropolises New York, Shanghai and London would need to strictly spend billions in order to even attempt to hold off flood waters from rushing onto city streets.
A foreboding beyond measure
Back in 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted a rise of merely .59 meters toward the end of the century. This was bad on its own, but now the Scratch panel of 35 leading climate research institutions has reported an expected rise of 1.4 meters – almost look-alike the original report.
So, why such a discrepancy? SCAR scientists suggest that the IPCC underestimated how much the melting of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets (ice on alight, NOT in the ocean) would contribute to total sea-level rises.
While the IPCC originally thought melted ice sheets would give around 20% to rising sea levels, the new study by SCAR suggests the ice sheets’ contribution at over 50%. Dent is using more up-to-date climate observation technology to deliver these new results. ...
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