Trillions In Damage To World's Coastal Regions Predicted
New research predicts that coastal regions may face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the course of the 21st century.
According to the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, global average storm surge damages could increase from about $10-$40 billion per year today to up to $100,000 billion per year by the end of century, if no adaptation action is taken.
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However, investment must also occur in Europe as shown by the recent coastal floods in South West England. Professor Robert Nicholls from the University of Southampton, who is a co-author of the paper, says: “If we ignore sea-level rise, flood damages will progressively rise and presently good defences will be degraded and ultimately overwhelmed. Hence we must start to adapt now, be that planning higher defences, flood proofing buildings and strategically planning coastal land use.”
Meeting the challenge of adapting to rising sea levels will not be easy, explains Hinkel: “Poor countries and heavily impacted small-island states are not able to make the necessary investments alone, they need international support.” Adding to the challenge, international finance mechanisms have thus far proved sluggish in mobilising funds for adapting to climate change, as the debate on adaptation funding at the recent climate conference in Warsaw once again confirmed.
“If we do not reduce greenhouse gases swiftly and substantially, some regions will have to seriously consider relocating significant numbers of people in the longer run,” adds Hinkel. Yet regardless of how much sea-level rise climate change brings, the researchers say careful long-term strategic planning can ensure that development in high-risk flood zones is appropriately designed or avoided. Professor Nicholls says: “This long-term perspective is however a challenge to bring about, as coastal development tends to be dominated by short-term interests of, for example, real-estate and tourism companies, which prefer to build directly at the waterfront with little thought about the future.”
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Glenn Harris
University of Southampton
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2014/02/climate-change-threatens-to-cause.html
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‘The great global warming swindle’, look it up. Enough said.
The creator made beaches for you to run naked on and not to built fricken homes. What is the difference between building a nuclear power plant on a fault line and a hose right on the ocean?
Global warming, Weather change, call it whatever you like. try this one, NATURE, it is what it is and does what it does when and how it wishes to do so and you little human pin heads will not have anything to say about that.
Right! But we could use the little bit of brains the Creator gave men to move higher up away from the coast, out of danger. In huge pars of the world there is space enough; the brains might be the problem.
Chemtrails, troll. You use the god theme to pretend to be an environmentalist, then write simple crap about ‘not building’ but leave out the swarms of twenty million then forty million illegal scums swarmed in and more legals STILL swarming in to leech welfare or take up jobs and squat in all that ‘housing’. All the scheme by your jew tribe and jew government lackeys to destruct america and whites, they’re breeding like flies just like the plan was, covenient you leave all that out. Your ‘nature’ meme is crap. immigration communists. CHEMTRAILS. pinhead trolls are scum. ‘neanderthal’ jews.
Hurray!! You’ve nailed that one correctly. NATURE’S NATURE!
All we have to do is find a couple of ideal places to build a nuclear desalinization plant along the African coast & pump that water to where it’s needed most. I’m sure the wildlife would definitely appreciate it & maybe those yeyhoos might learn to grow some food instead of eating bugs.
Another alternative & perhaps we should do both, is pump fresh water into the ogallala aquifer. I understand that it is depleting at an alarming rate & we are going go to be in serious trouble when it runs out. If that wouldn’t work due to requiring ground filtration, then maybe we could build some more dams & back up the rivers so more water will soak into the aquifer.
Sounds pretty simple to me.
Strange. Sea-level rise has been a constant 2mm to 3mm a year for the last couple hundred years.
Hurricanes are at a 30+ year low.
So, really, what’s driving the increased risk is uncontrolled development on risky land. You know, like land below sea level near New Orleans or homes built right next to the ocean in New Jersey and North Carolina.
The study is just another waste of money, telling us what insurance companies already know: it’s risky to build in areas vulnerable to hurricanes, but it’s even riskier when more people, businesses, and homes are crammed into the same area.
So what you’re saying is that sea levels have risen by between 8″ and 12″ in the last hundred years.
Scary. No wonder we need to spend billions every year from now on to keep our feet dry.
I won’t be able to sleep tonight, that’s for sure.
Or how about building on the banks of the major US rivers that flood every other year.
Here is a compelling article about the most accurate measurements of sea level.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/30/ipcc-sea-level-exaggeration/
It has links to data.
And here again is the testimony of: Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change.
He was told that the IPCC was adjusting actual figures upward, because “we needed to show a trend.”
” Until 2003, even its own satellite-based evidence showed no upward trend. But suddenly the graph tilted upwards because the IPCC’s favoured experts had drawn on the finding of a single tide-gauge in Hong Kong harbour showing a 2.3mm rise. The entire global sea-level projection was then adjusted upwards by a “corrective factor” of 2.3mm, because, as the IPCC scientists admitted, they “needed to show a trend”
That’s from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5067351/Rise-of-sea-levels-is-the-greatest-lie-ever-told.html
Meanwhile, San Francisco is unchanged since 1990 –Charlottetown is unchanged from 1995 to 2010 —Antofagasta is unchanged from 1980 to 2012 –Pago Pago is unchanged since 2000 —Stockholm is actually falling. and so on.
Global baloney warming scare. Carbon Tax scam, rising tides scam all the things I think about while I am shoveling the snow from the driveway and freezing.
Quick fact: QUit building million dollar homes on coastlines that have been repeatedly wiped out in past weather events, and you won’t have to worry about increased dollar-value-damage done due to storms.
Quit piling more and more people per square foot onto these same weather-ravaged beach areas, and you won’t have as many people affected.
Move that 62-percent of world populations off that ‘within-50-miles’ of a coastline demographic, and watch how money-loss and life-losses are GREATLY reduced.
Keep on hording all the inland land, turning it into a wildlife refuge for the corrupt elite under the guise of Agenda 21, and merely exacerbate the problems you keep on fear-porning us about.
Wow. That was awesome. Did someone help you figure all that out?
Lmao And all I here is are these people saying global warnings fake, iq check
Man made global warning is a big global scam and a lie to get stupid people to pay a global tax. Those who believe in this scam are sheep being lead to the slaughter.
Seriously??? “$100,000 billion per year…” That’s about the entire global economy per year just in adapting to a possibly rising coast line. BeforeItsNews has a serious credibility problem when it publishes ‘stupid’ news. It might as well be renamed ‘The Onion’.
I enjoy some of the stories but many just remind me of the Enquirer.
Al “QUEEN of the WARMERS” Gore, bought a mansion just 9 feet above sea level …. Al Gore does not believe his own Bull S— about warming ….. GOOGLE “Gore Armand Hammer” and learn about what corrupt trash the Gore Family is.
Look at America’s weather you genius.
Quack, quack, quack. You had me so frightened, A DECADE AGO.
1. Climate Change is a constant reality, and always has been.
2. What isn’t settled is if it is, on balance, a bad thing.
3. What isn’t settled is if man is a factor, let alone the primary cause.
4. What isn’t available is a reliable model of how fast it will progress.
5. Finally, what isn’t even likely, in fact, it’s laughable, is the assertion that it is irreversible, and that’s the real issue, because if it’s reversible, then who gives a sh*t?
When making a scientific argument, you have to prove your hypothesis through experimentation and observation, we “Luddites” don’t have to prove a negative. So far, that’s not going so well for the global warming NWO types. But it was a good scam while it lasted.
warming cooling, fake arguing. It’s chemtrails, putting more debt against us to jew federal reserve since government scums allow our tax money to go to jew re-insurance schemers for damage, making us to inhale nano bots and aluminun, jew gates/prince monsanto gm food control, carbon tax crap for more slavery. warming/cooling fake arguing is psy ops, government trolls distract from chemtrails and the elf towers doing the damage and weather disasters and causing more illness. jew world order, JWO.
The SKY is falling !! The SKY is falling !!
Once more…dig deep into those pockets you rich westerner’s …
YOU alone must do all the work, all the donating, all the suffering and paying…
While 3 world nations suck you dry!
Can we please get a BIG WAVE into IRAN or some other hell hole to prove this theory now?
distraction troll.
Since there is no real global warming and sea levels will not be rising, then these projections are just more baloney that the global warming crowd are trying to BS us with.
Interglacial temperatures over the last 10,000 years:
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I have no doubt that the climate is changing, It is just not the way we are being told.
Chemtrails.
Moron forecasting on the masses for political power and money grabs.
Most certainly the climate is changing in fact it changes almost constantly. The sun has a lot to do with our climate changes and if the experts on our suns cycles are correct and I believe they are then start buying things to keep you warm. Not only do these experts say global warming is not happening but are warning that we could be entering a mini ice age soon. All these changes have been occurring pretty regular since forever and will continue to occur long after we are gone.