This mapping tool from Climate Central is amazing. Also depressing.
https://coastal.climatecentral.org/
I’m going to use some examples from #California to illustrate.
One of the layers shows how much land will be under the annual flood level in 2050.
Looks to me like more air travelers will fly from Oakland in San Jose than SFO.
People in Alviso, in the SF Bay’s expanding southern reaches ought to think about remodeling their homes to have hulls, like the Dutch approach.
Then there is the problem of the highways. Are they building that BART extension from Fremont to San Jose underground or above?
I’m gonna take a little detour here into the Dutch floating communities, and then double back to the Climate Center on map.
Just learning now that Rotterdam is 90% below sea level. They consider rising sea used to be an opportunity. Move over Pollyanna.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220202-floating-homes-the-benefits-of-living-on-water
This is your future, coastal residents.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-dutch-flock-to-floating-homes-embracing-a-wetter-future
Now allow to me to interrupt this digression with an interlude of quite brilliantly crafted #prose on the topic of #NorthCarolina’s Outer Banks barrier islands.
https://coastalreview.org/2023/07/the-sand-waves-of-hatteras-on-a-mission-of-death/