New Orleans, Louisiana
If you were to look at a map of New Orleans, you’d notice some sharp, thick grey borders in the center of it. The city’s system of levees protects it from the swarm of red buildings up from Lake Maurepas in the north and Lake Salvador and Little Lake in the south.
Without those defenses, this city would be severely endangered by future coastal flooding. But the damage looks catastrophic even with them. The Jean Lafitte and Biloxi wildlife preserves look especially vulnerable. On the map, both appear almost completely submerged.
Bruges, Belgium
Along with much of the low-lying North Sea shoreline, Belgium’s coastline and charming seaside towns are incredibly vulnerable to future coastal flooding. And so is the scenic city of Bruges in the country’s northwest.
This UNESCO World Heritage site is well-known for its cobbled streets, winding waterways, and striking bell tower. But floods could severely damage its magnificent medieval center.
Venice, Italy
In the very immediate future, this historic city faces a double threat: the city is sinking by two millimeters each year, and sea levels are rising.
The Venetian capital has already been hit by severe flooding, and climate change is most likely to increase the frequency of future coastal flooding that submerge it. Like New Orleans, Venice has a system of flood-defense system in place.
But as the crisis deepens, they’ll be more difficult, not to mention expensive, to maintain.
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Amazing that many do not see climate change as what it tells is, nature changing. But that explanation does not allow for taxing and controlling freedoms, which is what the globalists and democrats really want! The positive side to it is that many of today’s youth who are guillible enough to support it will eventually end up working for the collective and realizing reality sucks!
Exactly. Remember our lifespans are short compared to the age of our planet and it has gone through several climate changes.
More than just Louisiana coastal areas, think about Port Arthur, Galveston, and possibly Corpus Christi. The Gulf is coming!
I do Notice a complete disregard of the phenomenon of “Subsidence”, being land settling due to ground water pumping caused by man needing a drink.
And I also Notice a complete disregard of the phenomenon of “Erosion”, being the washing away of the beaches and coastlines due to Entirely NATURAL action of waves washing away sand and soil.
But then again this being one of those “Alarmist” articles on Anthroprogenic climate change and only mentioning Subsidence in regard to “Skyscrapers” , I guess it should have been expected.
But I also Remember from high school a photograph of an Old Buick Car ( new at the time of the photo ) with a guy leaning on the fender, And pointing out the telephone poles in the background and stating that the Tops of the poles (30-40′ above the Car ) were at the original ground level, And The Surface had Settled due to groundwater Pumping for Crop Irrigation of the Napa and San Joaquin valleys, and population Growth in the area is ONLY going to make Subsidence worse.
Miami, Fl.?
Manmade Climate change is a fraud.
Just another way for the global elites to control people for world domination by controling fuel,food,funds and mobility of everyone by the NWO.
I’ve watched the Atlantic Ocean from the beach every day for the last 30 years.
The tides rise and fall twice a day.
The tides are very noticeable.
Every wave, large or small, washes up the sand.
The waves are very noticeable.
Whatever few millimeters the ocean level may have risen is dwarfed by the tides and waves is not noticeable.
Will many coastal land areas be completely inundated by the end of the century?
NOT SO’S YOU’D NOTICE!
What Miami did not make this list? It will be the first to go!!