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MORE WATER, LESS LAND By David Bagnall We've heard much about rising sea levels around the globe and the troubling figures which point to 2100 as a bench mark. Whilst they are indeed troubling, 2100 always seems far off, almost of no concern to those of us who are living today: it's certainly unlikely that we today would be around then, so why should we care? If you have adopted that way of thinking, perhaps the maps that show areas at risk of coastal flooding by 2050. Recent research has shown that huge swathes of the British, and global, coastline data was incorrect, causing the global average coastal land height to be on
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approdimately two meters higher than they are in reality. This means that many who live along the coast live vertically closer to the sea then was first believed. When considering something which is beginning to be as consuming as the ocean is, two meters is a huge amount. However, more pressing than the direct affects of the 3.6 mm annual sea level rise, and certainly more destructive to many more people in the UK, is the effects this has on areas that are at risk of coastal flooding.
❛❛ This represents hundreds of thousands of homeless British people ❜❜
