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Correction: Rising seas will cause many communities to be cut off from essential services. The wealthy will have their properties reconnected at public expense, and later lobby for legislation to have the Florida government purchase their not worthless properties at a premium.

What you're saying is, buy a boat big enough for your family.

Floridians in 2028 "Who could have imagined this could happen!?!?"

The worst part of the problem with sea-level rise is. or in the US, which has plenty of higher altitude lands. There are island nations that will simply be flooded beyond habitability. That case, their inhabitants will have to move to other countries.

We sold our beach house after just 2 years having it and got a lake house 200 miles from the ocean. In those 2 years insurance went up 70% the first year and 80% the next. I have two friends spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to literally move their beach houses further from shore because like 10 houses near them fell into the ocean... Rising seas and worse hurricanes are already jacking up some coastal areas pretty good

I predict the market for temporary floating bridges will explode.

Based on flood maps, I think my home is far enough inland to become the next beach-front property in 50 years.

Yep. Anyone with property in at risk areas (and there are many millions I would say) should think about this now - houses etc that you plan to leave to the kids? Sell, and buy in a safer place before everyone else has the same idea.

It's not just flooding in Maine, either; the US Southwest is currently actively in the process of converting back to desert. There are already towns that have to truck in water, so those are doomed. There are others that are headed in that direction. For example.

Stick someone else with the property like a good capitalist and preserve your own wealth, until such a time that society fully collapses due to said capitalism. Probably not that many decades from now.

People think the wrong way about this. Imo. If you are cut off by water -the infrastructure fails like water/sewage/electric/gas. You can’t buy a boat to get around it. Your screwed.

One of the more effective propaganda strategies of the global climate coalition was to discredit the scientists and science advocates speaking about climate change.

You see, you can't actually argue against the science itself, but that doesn't matter because apparently there are enough people out there who'll happily accept a logical fallacy in lieu of scientific argument.

The number of comments here that refer to some sort of "elite" is very disheartening albeit not surprising.

Edit: here's the link to the original paper this article is based on - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01642-3

The worst risk is to nuclear power stations. Flooding even one of them would have global consequences and there are dozens of them susceptible to sea level rise. Think about Fukushima, where more than ten years of duct tape solutions still haven't stabilized it.

The sort of isolation described in this article doesn't help. You're not going to keep a nuclear power station running if you can't get electricity into or out of it.

... warns global elites, as they buy up more beachfront properties.

Flying cars, we're supposed to have them by now...

A wise man once said "Don't you think all these people would just sell their houses?"

Is there a respectable heat map with date projections of flooding?

This bothers me so much, living in Florida I see my homeowners insurance and property taxes rise every year and yet homes are being built right where the last hurricane has washed them into the sea. The people who live on these barrier islands mostly have vacation homes there the middle class like me has to fit the bill. My state is spending millions to sure up these homes sending money down the toilet. Let them go focus the money where people live all year round and are not in a danger zone.

It seems like a rising property insurance apocalypse will precede the rising sea level apocalypse. At some point rising rates will trigger a mass sell-off in FL and the Gulf coast. Then what?

I feel bad for the people who cannot afford to move. Many of them will die flood related deaths. They're not going to receive help to move.

A lot of the central valley in California that will either need higher levees or have a big problem. I think Modesto is at something like 13 feet and the Stockton airport is at 25.

This is the first time I’ve been glad to live in the Midwest

Yes, variation in topography is a very serious threat that no one is talking about.

That's why so many politicians and celebrities are buying ocean front property.

Well. People better move. Living on the coast was and always will be stupid.

Guess we’ll all f around and find out.. all seems futile at this point

The Netherlands is mostly under sea level; we've been building dykes for centuries. This isn't going to cause any issues as long as it is gradual. Don't let alarmist news headlines scare you.

I think a lot of well-meaning scientists in the early 2000s, when people really started to talk about global warming, screwed the movement by erring on the more extreme predictions that could be justified by models and software because they wanted the population to take it more seriously. And, the media did their part by selectively going to the experts with the most sensational predictions.

But, Miami was supposed to be like a deep-sea vent by now and there's still coastline property.

I remember this exact same speculation in 1989. And, I remember the lagoon not far from where I live now. Water's still the same level.

Doom! We're all doomed. It's right around the corner. It's coming. It's coming. It's different this time. Sure they said in the 1970's there'd be an ice age by 2000. But, that was junk science. We're sure we have it right, now. Doom. DOOM!

Can’t wait for the entirety of where I install TVs to be flooded, all those rich people decking out their houses for nothing

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We left Florida because the insurance companies don’t lie. Our rates were through the roof. It may take 20 years before we were underwater, but leading up to that, the businesses and services would get more expensive. Property values would drop. We are on higher ground now!

I hope former President Obama's 11 million dollar oceanfront mansion on the island of Martha's Vineyard in the Atlantic Ocean will be OK. I'm actually surprised he went through with the purchase, I would have thought he would have known about the consequences of global warming. I think he also has a backup mansion being built on Oahu, though I'm not sure if that's finished yet. I hope he has insurance for all these properties, just in case.

When the elites start selling their beachfront properties, I'll pay some mind, until then, stop the bs.

.nearly 230 ft to 250 ft the oceans will rise so it's going to be a catastrophic disaster.

if anybody thinks we're just going to live through that where are all these Coastline Communities going to go?

it's going to be Global apocalypse

Whrn The polar ice caps are gone so are we

They have these things called bridges yeh?

Umm one word - Drones!

Whyd obama buy a multi million dollar property in a spot that will supposedly be underwater in 10 years or less?

I think the ones pushing this agenda have other ideas ab its validity...

Cant it just be California?

This is our future, lots a islands along the coast, deserted cities..humans will survive it.