With climate change now causing more severe temperature increases, dangerous sea level rise, and ferocious storms, our kids need this plan for the next 40 years and beyond.
The team found that, if taken individually, even the most extreme of these methods would result in severe sea-level rise.
Karachi, for example, remains at risks of severe cyclones and sea level rise.
The company said it is aimed at "boosting rail resilience using data based on increased frequency of severe weather and rising sea level predictions to focus on assets requiring investment to ensure the safety of the railway".
Observational evidence proved that global warming has already caused a series of severe environmental problems such as sea level rise, glacier melt, heat waves, wildfires, etc. [1, 2].
Economists have tried hard to work out how much these carbon dioxide emissions are likely to cost us in terms of severe weather, rising sea levels, a climate that disrupts agriculture, and so on.
Namely, the global warming may cause serious local climate change as well as the rise in the sea level, which give severe damage to the societies worldwide.
Elsewhere, politicians need to assess the vulnerability of their cities to changes in peak temperatures, in rainfall, in severe-storm frequency and in sea level, and act accordingly.As life gets harder in vulnerable places, people will need to migrate both between and within countries.
Nearly $100bn in commercial and residential property around the Bay Area is at risk from sea level rises and severe storms without adaption, with an estimated $21bn in new developments planned for areas vulnerable to inundation and storm surges.
After all, our states are literally the front lines when it comes to the severe impacts we'll see from sea level rise and stronger storms.
