Sea level rises could cause areas along California's seaboard to be flooded or entirely consumed by water, modeling suggests.
Areas of populous cities along California's stretch of the Pacific Ocean could be flooded or entirely consumed by water if, due to the effects of climate change, sea levels rise as predicted, modeling suggests.By the year 2100, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated, there could be between 43 and 84 centimeters of sea level rise, and an increase of two meters 'cannot be ruled out.
In Oakland, the monument in Jack London Square would be subsumed, as would many coastal neighborhoods in the city.David Thornalley, a professor of ocean and climate science at University College London, previously told Newsweek that due to melting ice sheets, beyond 2100—which is only a single lifespan away—greater sea level rises with far more severe effects were being predicted to occur in the coming hundreds to thousands of years.
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