Climate Change and Coasts

• Rougher seas - more erosion
• Weather changing - warming temperatures - rising sea levels - storms
• Flooding
• More erosion
• Ice melting - flooding

Climate Change and Coasts:

• 136 large coastal cities are now at risk from sea level rise
• 40 million people are at risk in those cities
• $3 trillion value assets at risk

Places that will be affected by rising sea levels:

• Thousands of years from now the Netherlands and most of Denmark will be underwater
• Alexandria and Cairo will be swamped by the Mediterranean, which will have swelled the Black and Caspian seas
• The Amazon basin (North) and Paraguay River Basin (South) would become Atlantic inlets, wiping out Buenos Aires, coastal Uruguay, most of Paraguay with only moutainous stretches surviving
• Land inhabited by 600 million Chinese would flood as would Bangladesh - 160…