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Sea level rise by 2050?

No!

By 2029!

🔺Bangkok, pop. 9 million: ~40% submerged by 2029

🔺Pacific island nations, pop. 2.3 million: uninhabitable by 2029

🔺Tropics: 2 × frequency of extreme water-level events due to SLR: 2029

🔺Indonesia: ~2,000 islands gone by - yes! - 2029
Bangkok (along with Jakarta, Manila and Shanghai) is among the fastest-sinking metropoles in the world.

'40% of the Thai capital may be submerged by 2030' aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/t…
"...more places are becoming uninhabitable because of land degradation, rising sea levels or other weather impacts, and there is no choice but to relocate."

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SLR of 5–10 cm: more than double the frequency of extreme water-level events in the Tropics as early as 2030.

nature.com/articles/s4159…
17,000 islands, many at risk of being washed away.

uk.reuters.com/article/enviro…
⚠️US East & Gulf Coast:

'By 2030, more than half of the 52 communities studied are projected to experience, on average, at least 24 tidal floods per year in exposed areas... Twenty of these communities could see a tripling or more in tidal flooding events'ucsusa.org/resources/encr…
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1. 98% loss in some regions
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3. abundance/biodiversity decline
4. other arthropods vanishing too
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Ben See
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Why won't state-corporate media put 2035 or 2040 in the headlines for articles on sea level rise?

Bangkok, for example, is set to be 40% underwater by 2030 according to the World Bank.

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
'A World Bank study predicted that 40 percent of the Thai capital may be submerged by 2030.'

Thailand's 2015 National Reform Council report predicted that Bangkok risks being submerged as early as the 2020s:

aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/t…
By 2060, about 1.4 billion people could be climate change refugees due to rising ocean levels. Those who once lived on coastlines will face displacement and resettlement bottlenecks as they seek habitable places inland. news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/0…
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Ben See
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Remember:

🇹🇭 Bangkok
🇵🇭 Manila
🇮🇳 Mumbai
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
🇮🇩 Jakarta
🇪🇬 Alexandria
🇫🇯 Fiji
🇧🇩 Chittagong
🇰🇮 Kiribati
🇮🇶 Basrah
🇲🇻 The Maldives
🇨🇦 Vancouver
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Skegness
🇸🇨 Seychelles
🇫🇷 La Rochelle
🇮🇩 Surabaya
🇬🇾 Georgetown
🇳🇱 Amsterdam
🇨🇳 Shanghai

All underwater by 2035.
1. Sea level rise is accelerating and happening faster than expected.

James Hansen says we could hit 5m within decades.

Nobody knows for sure how quickly it will progress, but it will hit hard sooner rather than later.

Explore this thread for details: 👇
2. A key question: will these places be underwater numerous times during a given year, or permanently from 2035?

See this interactive map to get a sense of sea level rise and flooding for each city/island nation by 2030 and 2040:
coastal.climatecentral.org/map/8/100.5836…
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