I suspect most of you were already familiar with the IPCC “one meter by 2100” forecast — it’s pretty widely accepted, at least in planning circles. But perhaps the implications of that weren’t clear.
If you live near a coast — what is your community doing to plan for this, if anything? Does their plan end at 2100? If you don’t live near a coast…lucky you! Still feel free to chime in…
And, I’m genuinely very curious about this one, because policymakers seem to have all made this value judgment: what do you think about communities planning to adapt (through diking, sea walls, etc.) to be able to withstand sea level rise up till 2100, but knowing (with a high degree of confidence) that they will not be able to mitigate the impacts after that?
I live in the Marshall Islands which is one of the four atoll nations in the world - Kiribati, Tuvalu, Marshall Islands, and the Maldives. All four of these countries will completely disappear with sea level rise, so protections in some places are being built now, but we all know that the saturation from the ground lens water and sea water will eventually take over and saturate the land, even before the waves are completely washing over the land and our atolls disappear.
I live in the Marshall Islands which is one of the four atoll nations in the world - Kiribati, Tuvalu, Marshall Islands, and the Maldives. All four of these countries will completely disappear with sea level rise, so protections in some places are being built now, but we all know that the saturation from the ground lens water and sea water will eventually take over and saturate the land, even before the waves are completely washing over the land and our atolls disappear.