• Politics

A Policy Solution to California’s Coastal Housing Crisis?

• California
• coastal flooding
• sea level rise

by Natasha Lasky, ODP Staff Writer Southern California’s famed coastline is home to some of the nation’s most desirable real estate, yet rising seas are quickly putting these homes in jeopardy. And over the next decades, $100 billion worth of American homes could potentially suffer massive damage from chronic flooding. California state legislator Ben Allen […]

• Climate Change

Greenland Ice Sheet Past The Point of No Return – Climate Crisis Continues to Roil the Planet

• #climatecrisis
• #NationalGeographic
• climate change
• coast
• coastal flooding
• Florida
• Greenland Ice Sheet
• ice
• sea level rise

Even if we stop emitting greenhouse gasses, it is too late to reverse the damage done — the Greenland ice sheet is beyond saving, according to a new study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment last Thursday, based on a review of more than 30 years of satellite data. 

Why This Matters:  The perfect metaphor for the climate crisis.  We have fallen off the first step and we can’t stop, but we don’t know how bad it will feel as we keep falling, and falling, and falling. The bottom line is that Florida and other coastal areas are going to be under water and there is no stopping that — we must adapt.

• Climate Change

Millions More American Homes at Risk of Flooding than Previously Thought

• coastal flooding
• flash flood
• Flooding
• sea level rise

An alarming new analysis from the First Street Foundation revealed that millions of American homes are at a growing risk of extreme flooding. As CNN wrote, today, around 8.7 million properties are located in Special Flood Hazard Areas as determined by FEMA’s flood maps, the legal standard used in the US to manage floodplains, determine […]