by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee There’s a thing about climate change and a rising sea level that took me a while to grasp… a lot of the water isn’t actually in the sea. As more water accumulates in the sea and the temperature rises, more energy is also being stored in the sea. Now, […]
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Do You Need Flood Insurance?
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Flood Buyouts, Savings and Climate Change
The AP article Flood buyout costs rise as storms intensify, seas surge reports: “‘… nearly half of the homeowners in Mosby signed up in 2016 for a program in which the government would buy and then demolish their properties rather than paying to rebuild them over and over. They’re still waiting for offers, joining thousands […]
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Underestimated Flood Risk
https://eos.org/opinions/millions-more-americans-face-flood-risks-than-previously-thought text follows: Millions More Americans Face Flood Risks Than Previously Thought A different modeling approach fills large gaps in the U.S. governmentâ??s flood risk estimates, revealing previously overlooked at-risk areas often surrounding small flood-prone streams. A Spring Lake, N.C., resident is carried from her flooded home on 17 September 2018, in the aftermath of […]
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Rising Seas and Declining Infrastructure
Miami’s Other Water Problem — If a coastal neighborhood will have to be abandoned anyway, is it worth spending money on new sewers? “People will hang on with their fingernails to keep what they’ve got,” Stoddard says. “But who’s going to move here? And that’s what’s going to kill us.” — Read the whole thing. […]
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Glaciers Are Vanishing
Around the world glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. The World Glacier Monitoring Service publishes a survey of the mass changes from glaciers. In their latest survey, the found “The average mass balance of the glaciers with available long-term observation series around the world continues to be negative, with tentative figures indicating a further […]
Underwater: Sea Level Rise
In a recent study by Matthias Mengel, Alexander Nauels, Joeri Rogelj & Carl-Friedrich Schleussner entitled “Committed sea-level rise under the Paris Agreement and the legacy of delayed mitigation action” published in the Journal Nature, the authors contend — sea levels will rise between 0.7 and 1.2 meters (27-47 inches) in the next two centuries even […]
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Sea Level Rise and Property Values
“Disaster on the Horizon: The Price Effect of Sea Level Rise” Asaf Bernstein, Matthew Gustafson, and Ryan Lewis. Sea level rise coming home, the market is paying attention (Halleluia! who woulda thunk it. The real estate market, especially on the coasts is a wretched hive of villainy)) The first sentence of the abstract is “Homes […]
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Climate Change And Credit
by Daniel Brouse Part of a series of articles on Climate Change And Flood Insurance Homeowners living in flood plain have learned the hard way that climate change has effected their ability to get a mortgage. As the sea level rises and extreme weather events intensify, homeowners have found their insurance rates increasing or their […]
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Cities Sink Faster Than Seas Rise
Are sea levels rising due to global warming? Yes. Coastal cities are getting a double whammy. NASA reports: a review article published by a team of scientists who recently assembled in New Orleans, La., and in Venice, Italy, to examine the problem. Extraction of groundwater or fossil fuels, and sometimes simply generations of farming, are […]
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Melting Sea Ice: the Disaster Scenario
According to a new study published in the journal Nature, the disaster scenario of rising sea levels could play out much sooner than expected. Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica may become unstable in the next 30 to 50 years. “We are not saying this is definitely going to happen,” said David Pollard, a researcher at Pennsylvania […]
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