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Monday, May 15th, 2017

Coastal counties face population loss from sea level rise; Atlanta to gain residents

Author:     Mary Landers
Source:     Savannah Morning News
Publication Date:     May 13, 2017 06:58 pm
Link: Coastal counties face population loss from sea level rise; Atlanta to gain residents
Stephan:   It is beginning to dawn on coastal counties that even though their state legislature and the federal government may say climate change and sea rise are a hoaxes to end capitalism and make American socialist, or some other equally pathetic fantasy, people along the coasts have to live the reality. As a result in local papers, I am beginning to see local research and discussions about climate change, sea rise, and migrations. Here is an example of what I mean. If you read SR regularly it will all sound very familiar.

Coastal residents won’t be the only ones affected by rising seas this century, a new study out of the University of Georgia suggests.

“Sea level rise is currently framed as a coastal hazard, but the migratory effects could ripple far inland,” UGA demographer Matt Hauer wrote in a study published recently in Nature Climate Change. “My results show the importance of accounting for future migrations associated with climate change in long-range planning processes for disaster management, transportation infrastructure, land-use decisions, and so on.”

The study looked at likely migration to and from every U.S. county and metropolitan area in the face of a sea level rise scenario of 1.8 meters, or nearly six feet, by the year 2100. That’s higher than the current rate of about a foot a century but less than the latest worst case scenario of 2.5 meters predicted in a January technical report from the National Oceanic […]

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