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It's worth noting that even we fall into the best case of the ranges depicted here, which there is no reason to believe we will, such a rise in sea levels would

• ltbarcly3 7y ago
  This is extremely false, there are no refugees who fled because sea level rise made their homes be underwater. There are people who's homes are not tenable due to storms and storm surge, which would be true with or without sea level rise. There are people who live on land that is subsiding, and so the land is lower (not the sea being higher). Sea level rise is estimated to be something like 60mm since the year 1900. That is about as much as your finger, less if you have an averaged sized hand. You can't live in a place that is 60mm above sea level, even a light breeze would put you under water due to the height of waves being far, far higher. So to believe there are refugees due to sea level rise, you have to believe there were people who lived at some level that was already under water much of the time in the year 1900, basically whenever there is some wind, and now with sea level rise it's under water a little more often, because now it only takes a 11kph wind to put them under water when 120 years ago it would have taken 12kph, and that 'little bit more often' over the course of a hundred years was enough that they abandoned their home rather than put a couple of thin boards on top of their floor to make it 3 inches higher, which would put them far higher above the water than they would have been even in 1900. It's completely absurd.