The Sea is Rising

The worries about global warming, fossil fuels and climate change are valid and very real. There are scientific connections between these various elements, though like “smoking causes cancer”, it appears certain, its hard to prove.

But the actual ill-effect of global warming is the rising sea levels. This is the dangerous disaster-in-waiting for humanity 40+% of whom live near sea level. And it’s already happening. Its not in the future and its not something that can be halted by CO2 reduction and all, though that may slow it down and give us more time.

We must prepare our cities and shorelines and build to a future, perhaps not so distant, where places like Manhattan and Hong Kong will be literally underwater, especially in storm driven high seas. 

I have some personal experience with this which is how I know. As a land surveyor I was hired to do a Flood study Simply put what land is covered by water during high tide is called the flood plain. After the flood plain was mapped we headed inland measuring the elevation of the coastal lands within a few miles of the ocean coastline. This was primarily for computing flood insurance costs for properties inside the flood plain.

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The objective of the flood study is to predict (accurately) that when extremely high tide-water came, say driven by a hurricane or tsunami, where and how far inland would it flood dry land?  And the implications are staggering.

If the sea level is one inch above normal it floods millions of acres of land. Of course this is only seen in big storms like Katrina and the tsunami in Japan a few years ago. The inch is multiplied to feet.  Tis said that in the tsunami of 2004 the low-lying Maldives Islands lost nearly 30 islands permanently.  

At the end of the day, if the ocean levels rise an inch or two permanently, the impact around the world will be catastrophic. And this seems inevitable at the least, and some scientists think the acceleration could be much much worse.

So work has to be done to prepare for this water that’s already seeping into every coastline on Earth. Flood control levies, relocating nuclear power plants, subway systems, natural fresh water supplies  and many other infrastructure changes and adjustments should already be in the making.