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  1. The mean sea level rises but it does not plunge coastal cities under water.
    Coastal cities flood when one event overtops the defences.
    The number of such submersions already is increasing according to a scientific study:
    Dangendorf, S., Sun, Q., Maduwantha, P. et al. "Human-driven sea-level rise has quadrupled the frequency of coastal sea-level extremes since 1900" (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-026

    #seaRise #submersion #flooding #climateChange #ocean #urban #PortoAlegre

  2. Rubane, Guinea-Bissau

    A girl sits on a swing hanging from a tree on the island of Rubane in the Bijagos archipelago. The archipelago, boasting exceptional biodiversity, and its inhabitants are now threatened by the encroaching sea.

    Photograph: Patrick Meinhardt/AFP/Getty Images

    #photography
    #GlobalWarming
    #SeaRise
    #ClimateDiary
    #children
    #GuineaBissau
    #beaches

  3. The #PerigordAtlantique Petrofuture map... #Bordeaux when the ice caps melt.

    Each of the 11 #Petrofuture France series is a comment on #greenwashing, nostalgia, and propaganda--showing the coastlines when the ice caps melt, layered on top of the vintage gas station map.

    #ClimateChange #SeaRise

  4. "The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is the continent's largest contributor to rising seas and contains enough ice to increase the global mean sea level by over 17 feet, the study explains" commondreams.org/news/west-ant Anyone got a map of how Dublin would look with a 5 metre sea rise? #Antarctic #SeaIce #SeaRise #Dublin

  5. WaPo: "Multiple new studies highlight a rate of sea level rise that is ‘unprecedented in at least 120 years’ along the Gulf of Mexico and southeastern U.S. coast" #climate #searise #hurricanes washingtonpost.com/climate-env

  6. Warming seas are carving into massive Antarctic glacier that could trigger sea level rise - washingtonpost.com/climate-env "could ultimately raise global sea level by 10 feet if they disintegrate over the coming centuries." not soon, but dire... #ClimateCrisis #SeaRise

  7. @rahmstorf
    It's likely that an increase in frequency & magnitude of #earthquakes will actually cause more nett damage than sea rise induced changing #coastlines, as there is no duality of action that some will experience as positive.

    This same tectonic rebalancing will add a layer of unpredictable change to #SeaRise as well. It will not simply rise everywhere equally, based on the volume of water. Coseismic rebound can bring immediate changes to the regional water/land interface zone by 1-2 meters.

    Most people are familiar with the tsunami potential from these events, but don't realize that the water does not always come back!

    Photo ref: andeangeology.cl/index.php/rev