Due to climate change, the ocean level off the coast of California will rise 30-40 times faster than in the last century, TASS reports, citing a study by American scientists. The rate of rise of ocean waters can exceed 50 mm per year.
The reason for the rapid acceleration is the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and subsequent climate change. Glaciers, heated by high temperatures, will melt faster, and the ocean fueled by melt water will tread on California beaches. If emissions are not reduced by 2050, the result will be the flooding of 5.4 thousand kilometers of California's coastline, the researchers believe.
The ocean can absorb two international airports - in San Francisco and Oakland - 67% of the beaches, bridges and coastal roads from Mendocino County to San Diego. The water will hide the roofs of 42 thousand residential buildings. Coastline flooding is a huge risk to the California economy. Most of the state's critical infrastructure facilities - power plants, resorts, nuclear waste disposal sites - are located along the coast.
California is one of the states hardest hit by the impact of the rising ocean. Storms are accompanied by large-scale flooding, normal tides end in flooding, the coastline collapses.
Not only California could be affected by flooding. The ocean offensive is dangerous for New York, Florida and other coastal regions of the United States.
You can see that the problem of melting glaciers is not a fiction, but a frightening reality, on satellite images of Greenland. Scientists claim that the island's ice sheet disappeared so quickly only tens of thousands of years ago. According to climatologists, by January 2017, the volume of ice at the poles had dropped to a record low. Simultaneously, the world average temperature reached the third highest indicator in the entire history of observations.