Ars Technica - Business as usual + sea level rise = losses of up to 9% of global GDP
Ars reports: "Things like extreme weather and droughts are the high-profile impacts of climate change—they are easy to see and understand. Sea level rise is much more subtle and slow-moving, but it's inexorable. Even if we stabilize our climate at a new, higher average temperature, the seas will continue to rise for centuries as the added warmth slowly melts ice and causes the water in the oceans to expand in volume."
Comment: Have you seen the massive waves hitting Great Britain lately? Or what about the flooding in London as the Thames rises? I don't think the industrialized world is ready for nature to take aim at coastal cities in the way this study suggests will happen.
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