Sea Level Rise: The Webpage!
In a post in March, I talked about where to live, and wondered about the effect of sea level rise on various locations. Well, I was recently reading an issue of Environmental Building News, and they mentioned this web page that generates maps of flooding with various degrees of sea level rise (from 1 m to 6 m).
It's pretty cool. 2 m in the Boston area doesn't look that bad to me (mostly small portions already along the water), but at 3 m, big swaths of Cambridge and Somerville are underwater, as well as the whole Back Bay and Boston Logan.
As a warning, though, I couldn't get the web page to work with my usual browser (Opera). IE worked all right.
posted by Bats @ 12:43 AM
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While you're considering the future waterfront, you might want to check out what towns are flooded out now. Granted, it's freshwater, and hopefully temporary, but the area "flood plain" is considerably larger these days (see boston.com et al).
So far, our apartment's basement is dry, but all along our street several basements are getting pumped out, and the Charles is flowing fast & furious on the other side of the road.
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