{"id":6445,"date":"2016-03-20T21:43:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T01:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6445"},"modified":"2016-03-20T21:44:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T01:44:41","slug":"sea-level-rise-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/sea-level-rise-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 13 million people could have to leave the coast by the end of the century"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent article in Nature Climate Change<\/em> by UGA scientists Mathew Hauer and Deepak Mishra and former UGA scientist Jason Evans highlights the severe impacts that rising sea level is expected to have on coastal populations in the US (the abstract is here<\/a>). \u00a0The scientists show that based on current projections of sea level rise by 2100 AD and projected population increases along the coast during the same time period, as many as 13.1 million people could be displaced by rising sea water. \u00a0The actual number depends on how much sea level rise is assumed as well as the growth in population along the coast, which has been significant in recent decades.<\/p>\n

This paper is the first to use both projections of sea level rise and projections of population growth to look at the impacts. \u00a0It shows impacts more than three times worse than just using the effects of sea level rise alone. \u00a0The worst impacts will be, as you might expect, in southern Florida and Louisiana.<\/p>\n

As you can imagine, this result has generated a lot of press. \u00a0A sampling of the articles on the topic is listed below.<\/p>\n

Huffington Post<\/a><\/p>\n

Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n

India Times<\/a><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n

\"SLR<\/a><\/p>\n

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Source: National Park Service via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A recent article in Nature Climate Change by UGA scientists Mathew Hauer and Deepak Mishra and former UGA scientist Jason Evans highlights the severe impacts that rising sea level is expected to have on coastal populations in the US (the abstract is here). \u00a0The scientists show that based on current projections of sea level rise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-coastal","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6469,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions\/6469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}