"Today’s children could see Miami and the Earth’s other low-lying cities swallowed by the rising ocean within 80 years if the fossil fuel pollution causing climate change continues unabated.
That’s the conclusion of a study published May 20 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that says rising seas could lead to the possible displacement of 187 million people as land totaling an area larger than Alaska is subsumed by the sea—a catastrophic climate scenario for which coastal communities must plan.
The research is likely to fuel ongoing political debate about how the U.S. should respond and adapt to climate change as the Trump administration rolls back carbon dioxide emissions regulations and dismisses the magnitude of the threat climate change poses to the U.S. even as scientists and United Nations officials describe global warming as an “emergency” and existential threat to humanity.
The study’s sea level rise figures roughly double the worst-case sea level rise estimates of the most recent United Nations climate report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report, published in 2014. "
Bobby Magill reports for Bloomberg Environment May 20, 2019.
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