Well, it kinda does but doesnt. Why this interactive tool is limited to 6 feet of sea level rise, when at least 10 feet is inevitable and due within 200 years (West Antarctic ice shelf) - something those considering dyking may want to think about - while 10 meters of sea level rise may already be inevitable, if weve already committed to an additional 1C of global warming, in which case Greenland goes into automatic melt out mode, is its most curious feature. The problem with those kind of SLR limits being imposed upon those examining potential vs likely vs inevitable consequences is that it marginalizes climate science, by highlighting the least worst outcomes, in and only within the near-term. Climate Centrals Surging Seas at least permits 10 feet of SLR to flood all ones favorite places along with infrastructure and any other investments dumb enough to have been made in what is an expanding bound to be under seawater coastal zone. And then theres the issue of people getting used to thinking that sea level rise is all about 3-6 feet outcomes, and nothing more, as though by centurys end, the high tide mark will rise no higher. Also, per WP scribe Lori Montgomerys apparent all around ignorance, there is absolutely nothing new about this mapping technology. Plenty of folks were doing similar down to the street level SLR scenarios, using the same technology, all the way back to the early 1990s, even for places like bound to be flooded near-term Miami-Dade. Rather than highlighting her own naivete Lori should be asking why this spatial data isnt already available as a handheld app - there is an anglocentric SLR app that doesnt work very well - that vibrates whenever the user is walking walking or driving underwater, according to a variety of emission scenarios, time frames and even based on the likelihood that worst case scenarios will worsen, which per SLR are already being observed, per Greenland and West Antarticas melt-down rates. Yes, SLR is accelerating and how genuinely silly of the WashPost to have also missed that nugget within their one to maybe two dimensional treatment of an essential, and widely relevant, story.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:05:57 +0000
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