U.N. Secretary General António Guterres enumerated some of the basic necessities and economic activities threatened by rising tides, including “access to water, food and healthcare” and “key industries like agriculture, fisheries and tourism.”
“For the hundreds of millions of people living in small island developing states and other low-lying coastal areas around the world, sea-level rise is a torrent of trouble,” Guterres said.
This could create destabilizing effects, as poor people lose their homes and poor countries lose their land, due to rich countries’ greenhouse gas emissions, potentially creating a wave of climate refugees. But that’s nothing compared to what’s in store. Due to the time lag between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, and then between warming and glacial melting that causes the oceans to rise, humanity has already ensured that future sea-level rise will dwarf what has happened so far.By 2100, the WMO projects 3 to 5 feet of sea level rise by 2100.
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