Coastal flooding will become more common and more severe as ocean levels rise.
12 inches by 2050, according to a
led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . It’s the latest jarring assessment of how climate change is disrupting life as we knew it.by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last summer. That report found that droughts, storms, and heatwaves are happening more frequently and will continue to increase. It also put the matter of sea level rise in stark terms.
Bob Kopp, an IPCC co-author and director of the Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, told reporters at the time that “sea level rise is already impacting people around the world, and it’s led to a near doubling in the frequency of coastal flooding since the 1960s in many coastal sites around the world.” The newaffected by the global shifts caused by greenhouse gas pollution.oast,18 inches.