cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/28743709

Published in Urban Sustainability, the study explores scenarios between 0.5 and 20 metres of sea level rise. It found that even the lowest increase (predicted to occur even if emissions are significantly cut) would result in around three million buildings being flooded regularly.

“Sea level rise is a slow, but unstoppable consequence of warming that is already impacting coastal populations and will continue for centuries,” says professor Natalya Gomez, co-author of the study and Canada Research Chair in Ice Sheet–Sea Level Interactions at McGill University.

“People often talk about sea level rising by tens of centimetres, or maybe a metre, but in fact it could continue to rise for many metres if we don’t quickly stop burning fossil fuels.”

It seems we have collectively decided not to

I was near sealevel, now at 270m.