Flooding from sea level rise threatens over 300,000 US coastal homes - study
Source: The Guardian
Climate change study predicts ‘staggering impact’ of swelling oceans on coastal communities within next 30 years
Oliver Milman in New York
@olliemilman
Mon 18 Jun 2018 01.00 EDT
Sea level rise driven by climate change is set to pose an existential crisis to many US coastal communities, with new research finding that as many as 311,000 homes face being flooded every two weeks within the next 30 years.
The swelling oceans are forecast repeatedly to soak coastal residences collectively worth $120bn by 2045 if greenhouse gas emissions are not severely curtailed, experts warn. This will potentially inflict a huge financial and emotional toll on the half a million Americans who live in the properties at risk of having their basements, backyards, garages or living rooms inundated every other week.
“The impact could well be staggering,” said Kristina Dahl, a senior climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). “This level of flooding would be a tipping point where people in these communities would think it’s unsustainable.
“Even homes along the Gulf coast that are elevated would be affected, as they’d have to drive through salt water to get to work or face their kids’ school being cut off. You can imagine people walking away from mortgages, away from their homes.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/17/sea-level-rise-impact-us-coastal-homes-study-climate-change
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Or republicans might actually be worried...
That's a whole lot of land eroding into the ocean and raising sea levels! That is what's causing this, according to some GOP Congress-critter. And he'd certainly know better than actual climate scientists, right? 
First they steal our intellectual property, and now they're perpetuating their climate change hoax. You know what'd fix their little red (Communist) wagon? That's right, tariffs! I'm so glad we've got a President who knows the score. He'll show 'em! Now if you'll excuse me, I just lost my healthcare and I need to figure out if my tax cut will pay for it.
(for the sarcasm impaired)
Most are for millimeters a year:
Ramp-up in Antarctic ice loss speeds sea level rise
Changes in the Antarctic ice sheet’s contribution to global sea level, 1992 to 2017. Credit: IMBIE/Planetary Visions
Ice losses from Antarctica have tripled since 2012, increasing global sea levels by 0.12 inch (3 millimeters) in that timeframe alone, according to a major new international climate assessment funded by NASA and ESA (European Space Agency).
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The team looked at the mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1992 to 2017 and found ice losses from Antarctica raised global sea levels by 0.3 inches (7.6 millimeters), with a sharp uptick in ice loss in recent years. They attribute the threefold increase in ice loss from the continent since 2012 to a combination of increased rates of ice melt in West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula, and reduced growth of the East Antarctic ice sheet.
Prior to 2012, ice was lost at a steady rate of about 83.8 billion tons (76 billion metric tons) per year, contributing about 0.008 inches (0.2 millimeters) a year to sea level rise. Since 2012, the amount of ice loss per year has tripled to 241.4 billion tons (219 billion metric tonnes) – equivalent to about 0.02 inches per year (0.6 millimeters) of sea level rise.
West Antarctica experienced the greatest recent change, with ice loss rising from 58.4 billion tons (53 billion metric tons) per year in the 1990s, to 175.3 billion tons (159 billion metric tons) a year since 2012. Most of this loss came from the huge Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers, which are retreating rapidly due to ocean-induced melting.
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At the northern tip of the continent, ice-shelf collapse at the Antarctic Peninsula has driven an increase of 27.6 billion tons (25 billion metric tons) in ice loss per year since the early 2000s. Meanwhile, the team found the East Antarctic ice sheet has remained relatively balanced during the past 25 years, gaining an average of 5.5 billion tons (5 billion metric tons) of ice per year.
https://sealevel.nasa.gov/news/129/ramp-up-in-antarctic-ice-loss-speeds-sea-level-rise
Worst case scenario is that the Antarctic ice loss is complete but as stated in the last paragraph I quotedabove right now it is holding steady. If all the ice on the continent of Antarctica melted that would give a sea level rise of 190 feet but no one is currently predicting that in the next hundred years.
The figure they gave for the increased rate of sea level rise is about 0.02 inches a year. 0.02 inches x 100 years = 2 inches.
and a large number of government decisions will focus on., though. The average profitable economic life of a hotel is something like 25 years. After that, it's time for redevelopment. The average life for anchor stores in strip malls is about a decade. Then the supermarket moves out and Goodwill moves in.
Take a look at that nice building Kuschner made the horrible mistake of purchasing. It has many, many more years in it if enough people cared to rent, but as it is it's a tear-down. Business does change too easily in some respects. All they need is enough prospective profit and legal means and the wrecking balls are swinging.
But even homeowners who need to worry about retiring on the equity in their homes aren't concerned with 100 years from now.
in a coop as a second, snowbird residence. (Aha! 
) We didn't even consider a stick-built home, much better investment or not, because we couldn't afford good insurance and didn't want to worry every year about water and other hurricane damage. Our MH is rather wonderful in its layout and comfort. It was good quality when built 60 years ago and is still nice. It's market value, though, is almost nothing; the value's in the land. IF the land remained (a big if when discussing this topic), we could replace it with another old MH for very little.
And we do notice that, of course, most Floridians are like you and choose to live and raise their families inland. Our park is full of winter transients from northern states and Canada.
Btw, we're very close to the mouth of Tampa Bay where it empties into the gulf. When Irma came up our coast, we assumed our MH would be totally lost. When Irma emptied the bay of billions of tons of water, with expectation of an 8-9 foot tsunami as the water returned, we said goodbye to the entire park, land and all. Then Irma took a small right turn inland directly south of us and the tsunami also failed to happen. Our old, very troublesome park sewers were fine, a handful of carports and palm trees damaged but no homes, our property totally unharmed, electricity back on in within 3 days. (It was out for over a week at our home in north Georgia, and we had 5 trees down.)
Go figure. Didn't expect that bizarre miracle and don't expect another.
Selfies of strolling in the bay.
Asking for a friend. 