Rising seas fueled by climate change to swamp $34B in US real estate in just 30 years, analysis find

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Higher high tides, supercharged by rising sea levels, could flood all or parts of an estimated $34 billion worth of real estate along the nation’s coasts within just 30 years, a new report concludes.

Within the span of a 30-year mortgage, as many as 64,000 buildings and roughly 637,000 properties along the ocean and its connecting waterways could be at least partially below the tidal boundary level, the nonprofit Climate Central stated in a report released Thursday morning.

Seas are forecast to rise from 8 inches to 23 inches along the nation’s coasts by 2050, with the higher increases along the northern Gulf Coast and mid-Atlantic. As the oceans rise, every inch of additional water is expected to move farther inland making flood events worse and putting more properties at risk.

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More than 48,000 properties could be entirely below the high tide lines by 2050, mostly in Louisiana, Florida and Texas.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rising-seas-fueled-by-climate-change-to-swamp-34b-in-us-real-estate-in-just-30-years-analysis-finds/ar-AA11BIRx

And most of them are in denial about climate change.

[tinrobot]

1. Kiss Miami goodbye.

Along with a lot of other low-lying coastal cities.

[multigraincracker]

2. Is that in 2022 dollars,

or 2052 dollars?

[Metaphorical]

3. One other consequence of this

A 23-inch rise translates to about an 8' rise in storm surges during hurricanes. This in turn means that salt water will contaminate fresh water reservoirs and aquifers, as well as killing freshwater wetlands and accelerating the destabilization of buffer territory. This raises the possibility that by 2100, the Everglades will be open sea water all the way up to and including Lake Obeechobee, and places like Key West will be underwater.

The salination of Florida and the Carolinas is going to be the biggest problem. Southern Mississippi's lack of clean drinking water is partially because it's become too salty to purify.

[viva la]

4. Florida-- a peninsula-- will be underwater mostly

I guess the Netherlands has managed below-sea-level for centuries, but that's at risk too.