As oceans rise due to climate change, entire countries are threatened by the increasing of high tide lines. Here in the Marshall Islands where the total height above sea level averages no more than three (3) feet every part of the nation is threatened. This photo is not a storm, its a by-monthly tide...The thing that impacts increased tidal lines the most is not, surprisingly, the return of ice and glacial run off to the seas... its the increase in ocean volume due to expansion caused by an increase in ocean temperature. Raise the average temperature of the ocean by just 1 or 2 degrees and it will expand a corresponding 1%+...that's an extra 1000 gallons or more for every million gallons experienced today.
Raise the seas three feet and the Marshalls are gone... but so are parts of the Bahamas, sections of Florida, Australia, Russia ...flooding in London, Tokyo, Baltimore... heck, New Orleans is already below sea level...raise the oceans and the water will find a way into our cities, increase brackish water in rivers, corrupt our aquifers...world wide...and this isn't a guess...its happening now.
The question isn't if it is going to happen...it is when it will happen to you. Ask yourself "What will we do when we have 100-Million tidal refuges looking for a new place to live the world over?"
And after that?
Well we better have a plan....
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