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BumRushDaShow

(144,196 posts)
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 08:48 PM Dec 8

Map Shows US Cities That Could Be Underwater in 2050

Source: Newsweek

Published Dec 08, 2024 at 4:00 AM EST | Updated Dec 08, 2024 at 12:11 PM EST


A map shows the growing threat to coastal cities across the United States due to rising sea levels.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s latest projections, sea levels along the U.S. coastlines are projected to rise, on average, around 10 to 12 inches by 2050.

Many communities along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts face significant risks of partial inundation in the future if current trends continue and mitigation efforts are not intensified.

NOAA's Sea Level Rise Viewer shows which cities may be impacted along each coast, with dark blue areas indicating significant projected sea level rises.


A map from NOAA's sea level rise viewer shows U.S. coastal cities at risk from rising sea levels. The dark blue areas indicate significant projected rises. NOAA/NOAA

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-cities-that-could-go-underwater-sea-level-rise-1996760



Link to NOAA Sea Level Rise Viewer - https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr/0/-8098979.878520389/5160186.459908035/7/satellite/none/0.8/2050/interHigh/midAccretion

Link to NOAA Sea Level Explorer - https://sealevel.globalchange.gov/national-sea-level-explorer/

Link to last NOAA REPORT (PDF) - https://sealevel.globalchange.gov/resources/2022-sea-level-rise-technical-report/#application-guide-download
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Karasu

(368 posts)
2. We're nearly out of time before it starts wrecking places like Hawaii (2030), and electing fascists ain't gonna do shit
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 09:53 PM
Dec 8

but accelerate the process.

Think. Again.

(19,041 posts)
3. Thank you for posting this.
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 10:26 PM
Dec 8

But as we know from direct experience, the predictions that have been made about the effects of CO2 emission-caused climate chaos are usually wrong, the effects happen usually sooner than predicted, and the damage is usually worse than predicted.

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lark

(24,339 posts)
6. Hmm, why isn't FL included on this list - Miami is already having big flooding problems?
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 09:04 AM
Dec 9

?????

BumRushDaShow

(144,196 posts)
7. 'Cause you didn't click on the article link and scroll down
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 09:19 AM
Dec 9
Atlantic Coast

The NOAA map also shows that Florida's Atlantic coastal cities of Miami, Port St Lucie, Jacksonville, West Palm Beach, Pompano Beach, Palm Bay, and Palm Coast are at risk of rising sea levels.


lark

(24,339 posts)
8. Actually I tried that, but I'm old and not terribly computer literate and I couldn't get it to go down to FL?
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 09:30 AM
Dec 10

Damn, I live in Jax. They should have included St. Augustine and Daytona, those places are already flooding badly with even mild storms. I live 40 ft up from the water on a big hill, and have no huge trees so we are about as change proof as possible. We own our house outright and the kids live in town, so we're not likely to move unless a civil war starts.

BumRushDaShow

(144,196 posts)
9. I think anyone living within 50 miles of the Atlantic Ocean or GOM will be impacted
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 11:05 AM
Dec 10

And as a note, despite some trying to put PA in the "Midwest", Philly is about 50 miles from the Atlantic Ocean and we have parts that are "below sea level", the city mostly part of what is dubbed "the coastal plain", although I am up a couple hundred feet where the Piedmont starts factoring in and is where the "fall line" is.





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