NYC flooding, Post Sandy. Photograph: © SAF – Coastal Care
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Sea level rise could cause mass migrations that will affect not just the United States’ East Coast, but reshape communities deep in the heart of the country, according to new research published in the journal Nature Climate Change this week.
People leaving heavily populated coastal communities inundated by flooding will relocate across the U.S. by 2100, including to landlocked states such as Arizona and Wyoming that are “unprepared to accommodate this wave of coastal migrants,” the study found.
Previous research has estimated that by the end of the century, as many as 13.1 million Americans will be displaced from their homes due to sea level rise…
Read Full Article, Yale E360 (04-19-2017)
When rising seas transform risk into certainty, The New York Times (04-18-2017)
Resettling the First American Climate Refugees – Louisiana; The New York Times (05-03-2016)
‘Nuisance Flooding’ An Increasing Problem As Coastal Sea Levels Rise, NOAA (07-28-2014)
A NOAA study looks at more than 60 years of coastal water level and local elevation data changes. Eight of the top 10 U.S. cities that have seen an increase in so-called “nuisance flooding”…
“Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change,” A book by Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, and Keith C. Pilkey
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