publishedFebruary 16, 2022 at 12:51 p.m
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research paperIn a few years, New York could be regularly under water
The US authorities are sounding the alarm: Because of climate change, 40 percent of the population living on the coasts will have to reckon with regular flooding in the future. And it’s set to get even worse in the future.
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Sea levels will continue to rise in the coming years. According to experts, the effects will soon be felt on the coasts of the USA.
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–For example, flooding is likely to occur regularly in the metropolis of New York.
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–According to the researchers, the sea level off the US coast has risen more sharply in the past 30 years than in the entire 20th century.
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Sea levels are rising and could rise by as much as 30 centimeters by 2050.
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This will become increasingly noticeable on the coasts of the USA. Cities like New York are likely to be regularly flooded in the coming decades.
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The problem will become even more acute at the beginning of the next century, researchers warn.
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Over the next 30 years, sea levels on the American coast will rise at the rate they did in the entire 20th century. Costly flooding regularly hits major East Coast cities, even on sunny days, warns a government report released Tuesday by the US weather agency NOAA and six other federal agencies.
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Sea levels will then rise by 0.25 to 0.3 meters in parts of the US states of Louisiana and Texas even by 0.45 meters. “Sea level rise is here,” said Nicole LeBoeuf, director of NOAA. The projected increase is particularly alarming given that seas along the Atlantic coast have risen at their fastest rate in 2,000 years in the 20th century. 40 percent of the American population lives on the coast.
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Acute impact around 2100
The worst of the long-term rise in sea levels from the melting of the Antarctic ice sheets and in Greenland will likely not occur until after 2100, however, said oceanographer William Sweet, the report’s lead author. “The coastal flooding that we’re seeing now in the United States will be on a whole new scale in a few decades,” said Andrea Dutton, a geoscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a sea-level rise specialist was involved in the federal report. ‘We can see this freight train coming from over a mile away. The question is whether we will continue to let houses slide into the sea.”
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By mid-century, “moderate” flooding will replace smaller floods that are already regular in some areas, the researchers warn. “There will be flooding in areas that have not previously experienced flooding,” said William Sweet. “Many of our major metropolitan areas on the east coast will be increasingly at risk.”
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And that’s only until 2050. The report predicts an average sea level rise of about three feet in the United States — more in the east, less in the west — by the end of the century.
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