The actual impacts of sea-level rise are going to be much, much worse than previously expected
Semarang, Indonesia, 2019. Photo: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images Climate change will bring a wide variety of menacing disruptions to human existence. Some of these are well-known and already operative, like the wildfires that have been racing along California’s freeways or the perpetual droughts that have been immiserating Mediterranean farmers. Others are more obscure, like the higher rates of interpersonal and geopolitical violence a warming climate is expected to bring .
Or rather, that’s what such models suggested before this week. On Tuesday, a new study revealed that those alarming statistics — which had gotten so many of us all worked up about our favorite cities’ impending doom — were wildly inaccurate.Previous estimates of the impact that rising tides would have on coastal cities relied on a three-dimensional map of Earth derived from satellite readings.
Photo: MIT Technology Review The New York Times captures the study’s results in more vivid and harrowing fashion by illustrating its implications for some of the globe’s most populous low-lying cities. Mumbai — the financial capital of what will soon be the world’s most populous country — is now at risk of being entirely erased by mid-century.
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