As for the map, one panel shows the impact of unchecked pollution. New Orleans and Miami are already past the point of no return.
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A team of researchers warned that if carbon emissions are not drastically reduced within the next decades, rising sea levels could end up washing away several coastal cities in the U.S.
That quantity could be lowered by greater than ninety p.c to about 14,000 if “huge and extended” carbon emission cuts have been made, a coverage that would cut back world warming, gradual the melting of polar ice sheets and mitigate the growth of ocean waters that might include larger world temperatures, the paper stated.
In New York City, which has least 1.6 million people, rising sea level could affect Red Hook and Cobble Hill neighborhoods in Brooklyn, and an area of luxurious real estate in southwest Manhattan. The beloved American city is “a really sad story”, said Strauss. In the report, the researchers mentioned that the speed of sea-level rise depend on carbon emissions.
The study and map topographic contours of the US coast to sea level rise due to carbon emissions.
Lead author of the study and vice-president for sea level and climate impacts, Ben Strauss, has stated that all of that could be met by the turn of the century. The bad news about two of our favorite Southern party cities – which, much more important, are also home to hundreds of thousands of people – should encourage us to work even harder to forestall similar events in other places around the country, and in the world. The most startling finding is that 414 towns and cities have already passed their lock-in date, or the point at which it’s guaranteed that more than half the city’s populated land will eventually be underwater no matter how much humans decrease carbon emissions; it’s just a matter of when.
New Orleans and Miami will sink under water during the next 100 years, a new Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences report says.
Florida will be the most affected USA state by incoming sea level rise since 40 percent of its residents live on high-risk coastal areas.
And Strauss cautioned that the report is not suggesting sea-level rise can be avoided altogether.
As long as that goal is achieved, a number of 100,000 people in 14 cities could be spared this century. Strauss added that a global version might also be added next month.
The map uses four different scenarios laid out by the Intergovernmental on Climate Change.
Miami’s low elevation and porous limestone bedrock makes the city a lost cause.
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“If we don’t cut emissions”, says Strauss, “we’re talking about losing American land (that’s) home to more people than live in any state, except for California and Texas”.
