Water, Water Everywhere, Yet Local U.S. Planners Are Lowballing Their Estimates
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 20, 2023
Communities across the U.S. are underestimating future sea level rise, according to a study published in Earth’s Future, a journal from the American Geophysical Union. The study found that more than half of the 54 surveyed locations in the U.S. underestimate the upper end of future sea level rise, compared to regional projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
“Our goal was to understand how well scientific advances in understanding sea-level rise are being incorporated into the . . .
