Reasons for rising sea levels

reasons for rising sea levels and imoacts of coastal flooding

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  • Reasons for rising sea levels
    • sea level is rising bc of global warming
      • Melting ice
        • melting of ice causes water to return to oceans.
          • increases volume of water in oceans and cause sea levels to rise
      • Heating oceans
        • increased global temperature causes oceans to get warmer and expand
          • increases volume of water causing sea level to rise
    • Sea level rise will increase coastal flooding

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