During the last glacial maximum, sea level was around 600 feet lower than today. Southeast Britain was connected to Europe by a land bridge called Doggerland, which is derived from the Dogger Banks which the name of the submerged area.…
Tag: Sea Level Rise
NOAA – 2019 State of U.S. High Tide Flooding with a 2020 Outlook
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Sea level rise flooding of U.S. coastlines is happening now, and it is becoming more frequent each year. This flooding typically occurs when ocean waters reach 0.5 meter (m) to 0.65 m above the daily average high tide…
FloodFactor – Find your home’s Flood Factor – Tool for Determining Present and Future Flood Risk
https://floodfactor.com/ Flood Factor™ Defining American’s past, present, and future flood risk. Flood Factor is a free online tool created by the nonprofit First Street Foundation that makes it easy for Americans to finally find their property’s current and future risk of flooding,…
LA Safe 2019 – Realistic Plan for Adaptation to Sea Level Rise or Denial of the Real Risks?
LA Safe 2019
2018 State of U.S. High Tide Flooding with a 2019 Outlook
NOAA, 2018 State of U.S. High Tide Flooding with a 2019 Outlook, NOAA Technical Report NOS CO-OPS 090 (June 2019) SUMMARY NOAA tide gauges are measuring rapid changes across the entire severity-spectrum of coastal flood risk along U.S. coastlines due…
Sea-level rise Projections for Maryland 2018
In fulfillment of requirements of the Maryland Commission on Climate Change Act of 2015, this report provides updated projections of the amount of sea-level rise relative to Maryland coastal lands that is expected into the next century. These projections represent…
Mississippi Supreme Court finds that artificial beach is public trust property
Harris v. State, 2018 WL 5839607 (Miss. Nov. 8, 2018). Abutting landowners brought an action against the State of Mississippi, a city, and a county to confirm title to waterfront properties. A trial court granted partial summary judgment in favor…
Climate-related risk to DoD Infrastructure
Department of Defense, Climate-related risk to DoD Infrastructure Initial Vulnerability Assessment Survey (SLVA S) Report, JAN. 2018, 6.
Military Expert Panel Report: Sea Level Rise and the U.S. Military’s Mission, 2nd Edition
Military Expert Panel Report: Sea Level Rise and the U.S. Military’s Mission, 2nd Edition (2018) From the Report WWW page: The Center for Climate and Security’s Military Expert Panel Report: Sea Level Rise and the U.S. Military’s Mission, 2nd Edition concludes that…
Underwater: Rising Seas, Chronic Floods, and the Implications for US Coastal Real Estate (2018)
This is a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists on the potential impact of various rates of sea level rise on residential and coastal real estate, using data on the coastal real estate from Zillow.
The Public Trust Doctrine and Sea Level Rise
Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, The Public Trust Doctrine: A Guiding Principle for Governing California’s Coast Under Climate Change (2017) This report looks at the legal implications as the mean high tide line – the…
California Communities Confronting Rising Sea Levels Sue Fossil Fuel Companies
Breaking News! Oakland and San Francisco climate cases removed to federal court and held there. People of the State of California v. BP P.L.C. et al., San Francisco Superior Court Case No. CGC 17-561370 People of the State of California v.…
Sea Level Rise Threatens Major US Navel Bases
Kelly A Burks-Copes et al., Risk Quantification for Sustaining Coastal Military Installation Asset and Mission Capabilities (RC-1701) (2014). (original link) Objective The objective of this project was to develop and test a risk-based methodology to evaluate threats to critical installation assets…
Sea Level Rise Affects on Marshes
Sea Level Rise Affecting Marshes Model John D Boon, John M Brubaker & David R Forrest, Chesapeake Bay land subsidence and sea level change, App. Mar. Sci. and Ocean Eng., Report 1–73 (2010).
The Digital Coast
The Digital Coast What is the Digital Coast? This NOAA-sponsored website is focused on helping communities address coastal issues and has become one of the most-used resources in the coastal management community. The dynamic Digital Coast Partnership, whose members represent…
Restoring the Gulf of Mexico for People and Wildlife – More Climate Change Denial
National Wildlife Federation: Restoring the Gulf of Mexico for People and Wildlife: Recommended Projects and Priorities (2014) [Some of the inland projects do make sense, such as dealing with the water flow into the Everglades. But the coastal projects all…
Community Resettlement Prospects in Southeast Louisiana
Community Resettlement Prospects in Southeast Louisiana: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Legal, Cultural, and Demographic Aspects of Moving Individuals and Communities. An Issue Paper of the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law & Policy September 2014. From the report: This paper…
Encroaching Tides – How Sea Level Rise and Tidal Flooding Threaten U.S. East and Gulf Coast Communities
Spanger-Siegfried, E., M.F. Fitzpatrick, and K. Dahl. 2014. Encroaching tides: How sea level rise and tidal flooding threaten U.S. East and Gulf Coast communities over the next 30 years. Cambridge, MA: Union of Concerned Scientists. Today scores of coastal communities in…
Coastal Sea Level Rise Resources
Surging Seas – Flood risks with climate change on the US coast (Climate Central) Excellent site for illustrating the current and future risk of sea level rise. It is also useful for showing what lower levees of hurricane storm tides…
State of the Climate 2012 – NOAA
Blunden, J., and D. S. Arndt, Eds., 2013: State of the Climate in 2012. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 94 (8), S1–S238. Briefing Slides NOAA: 2012 was one of the 10 warmest years on record globally The end of weak La…
Global Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States – 2012
Global Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States National Climate Assessment, December 6, 2012. Global sea level rise has been a persistent trend for decades. It is expected to continue beyond the end of this century, which will cause…
Study of the Economic Effects of Charging Actuarially Based Premium Rates for Pre-FIRM Structures
This report presents the results of a study on the economic effects of charging actuarially based premiums for pre-FIRM (Flood Insurance Rate Map) structures. The study was performed in response to Section 578 of the National Flood Insurance Reform Act…
States plan to develop land most vulnerable to ocean rise
Rising sea level threatens existing coastal wetlands. Overall ecosystems could often survive by migrating inland, if adjacent lands remained vacant. On the basis of 131 state and local land use plans, we estimate that almost 60% of the land below…
Climate Change: Adapt or Bust
The past few years highlight bluntly the cost of weather-related catastrophes for the global economy and the insurance industry in particular. The industry’s response has proven that it is financially strong and well-equipped to respond to these financial shocks.
It is equally clear that, so far, the industry has not taken changing catastrophe trends seriously enough. Climate change is likely to bring us all an even more uncertain future. If we do not take action now to understand the risks and their impact, the changing climate could kill us.
Ocean Rise in New York State
New York State Sea Level Rise Task Force, Report to the Legislature, December 2010.
The communities along New York State’s coastline, including their structures, their residents, their environment and the surrounding natural resources, are products of decisions made over the course of many years. These decisions shaped decades of investment, development and conservation. While the extent of the impacts to coastal communities from a rising sea are not fully known, even the most conservative projections make clear that there will be dramatic changes in this century.[…]
Florida’s Beaches – Caught between the ocean and a hard place
Florida is facing the same problems with global warming that face Louisiana: as the beaches try to retreat inland with ocean rise, they are stopped by armoring on developments. For Louisiana, this means the end of the wet lands. For…