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Rushing To The Coast – The Wrong Way To Adapt To Global Warming

Jim Conca

You’d think climate-influenced human migration would be away from coastal areas flooded by sea level rise. But that’s not what researchers from across the United States and Europe are projecting. Low-lying areas like Bangladesh will probably gain more residents than they lose as flooding gets worse.

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Australia’s land is already 1.5°C hotter and faces intense fire season, ocean heatwaves and sea-level rise

Renew Economy

Latest CSIRO and BoM report checks in on the worsening impacts of global warming on Australia's environment and communities. C hotter and faces intense fire season, ocean heatwaves and sea-level rise appeared first on RenewEconomy. What is climate change doing to the world's driest inhabited continent?

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Climate Denier Nigel Farage Standing in Seat at Risk of Sea Level Rises and Flooding

DeSmogBlog

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage , who is a vocal critic of green policies and climate science, is standing in a constituency threatened by rising sea levels and flooding due to global warming. The party’s manifesto claims that “scientists disagree as to how much” humans have had an impact on global warming.

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The Role Of Managed Retreat In Adapting To Sea Level Rise

Energy Innovation

As societies around the world continue emitting heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, they face the consequence of sea level rise. Since 1900, sea levels have increased 8 inches on average globally, and by 2100, sea levels will likely rise between 1 and 4 feet (Sweet et al.

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Geoengineering Delay of Climate Change Sea-Level Rise?

Energy Central

At current rates, global warming will force coastal cities to contend with about 1 meter of sea level rise by 2100, according to a 2021 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Immersive, dystopian exhibit shows what life could be like post-climate change

Inhabitat - Innovation

As a wake up call to the possible effects of global warming, Superflux has created immersive art that explores the possible consequences of sea level rise for city dwellers in coastal areas.

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Big Oil Foresaw Extreme Flooding Now Predicted to Hit US Coasts Almost Daily

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins Oil companies have long been aware that their products cause global warming and the impacts, including from rising seas, could be catastrophic. coastal cities , barring efforts to mitigate climate change and reduce sea level rise.