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| Coastal Cities Face Various Inundation Levels |
The last ten years have seen increasing global temperatures each year:
"The WMO State of the Climate 2024 Update once again issues a Red Alert at the sheer pace of climate change in a single generation, turbo-charged by ever-increasing greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. 2015-2024 will be the warmest ten years on record; the loss of ice from glaciers, sea-level rise and ocean heating are accelerating; and extreme weather is wreaking havoc on communities and economies across the world."
(Warming temporarily hits 1.5°C, emphasis added). Today's appendix shows a long-range (1800-2050) estimation of sea level change in 15 USA states.
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| Contrast Much? |
The actual tide gauge station records (measurements) are sandwiched in between the past and the future projections (Appendix).
What contrasts and conundrums we face.
Yes, the world's largest desert (Antarctica) gets less rainfall than the Sahara desert.
Yet, if its ice sheet was to melt it would cause a ~73.32 m (~240.55 feet) global sea level rise, and if Greenland followed suit it would add another ~6.55 m (~21.49 feet) to the oceans (USGS).
Today's appendix shows that "it" is on the way.
The previous post in this series is here.