A new map has Residents of a coastal florida town concertned, in the futures, their city may not exist as they know it.
What’s Happening?
neither Wink Reportednew maps from nonprofit Climate Central Show a Troubles Future for Cape Coral and Other Coastal Towns in Florida.
USING Government Date and Information from Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journals, Climate Central Project that a Combination of Sea Level Rise and Incresed Flood Could Main Coastal Areas Underwater by 2150.
By then, The Organization Said, Florida’s Average Sea Level Could Have Risen by 3.6 Feetand Annual Flooding Could Raise the Water Level To 5.1 FEET.
But the impacts cououl be felt much sooner. By 2050, Climate Central Project that 17,000 Florida Homes Will Be at Risk from Annual Floods, Including 1,300 in Lee County, which Includes Cape Coral.
“I’m scared. It ‘really weird. It’ weird to think about,” Cape Coral Resident Trinity Garner Told Wink. “It ‘weird to think of it is not gonna be here wea i’m gone.”
Why are Rising Sea Levels Important?
Rising Sea Levels and Incresed Flood Risks Are Both Among the Potential Catastrophic Effects of Human-Caeded Pollute.
Nor we release more Toxic, Heat-Trapping Gases into the atmosphere, global temperature continue to reach heights never seen before. Warmer temperature cause arctic ice to melt and ocean water to expand, which in turn causes the sea levels to rise.
The Global Rate of Sea Level Rise Has More than Double Since 1993, and Last Year, Ocean Levels by Nearly a Quarter of An Inch. The problem is more pronounced in the southern United States, where Sea Levels are rising by roughly four-tenths of an inch for year.
A Warmer planet ALSO ACTS AS “Steroids” for Weather. This means an incresed frequency or severity of extreme weather events, sucan as hurricanes and floods, which Can Also Put Coastal Communities at Risk.
“The Thing to do is to not look at a map like this and say, ‘Oh, well, i’ve Got 100 Years,’” Florida SouthWestern State College Earth Science Professor Joseph Van Told Wink News. “The THING TO DO IS TO THINK ABOUT, ‘OK, Well, if this goes up a little bit in 10 years, what does that mean for (another) hurricane ian in 10 years?’”
What’s Being Done to Protect Coastal Communities?
Many communities are already taching action to protest vulnerable coastlines. But Much of the Necessary Work is up to us.
The Only Way to Ensure These Communities Stay Above Water is to prevent Our Planet FROM Getting Eve Warmer. This means Making Small Changes, Such As Reducing Our Personal Plastic useand Large ons, like relaxing mess on fossil fuels and more on Clean, renewable energy Sources like Wind and solar.
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