Website reveals which homes will be swamped by rising sea levels

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Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care

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For the first time, Australians can see on a map how rising sea levels will affect their house just by typing their address into a website…

Read Full Article, Guardian UK

Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries, The New York Times (03-22-2016)

This mind-boggling study shows just how massive sea level rise really is, The Washington Post (03-12-2016)
As our planet continues to warm, coastlines worldwide will retreat inland — in the long run, maybe by a lot. It seems doubtful that we can defend all of the many coastal zones that will be at risk. But in a new study just out in the open access journal Earth System Dynamics, scientists have actually published an idea for doing that and provided some calculations regarding the scale of what it would take…

Developers don’t get it: climate change means we need to retreat from the coast, Guardian UK (15-03-2016)
It is preposterous to build in areas that are bound to flood. So why are real estate companies still doing it?..

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