I continued reading the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report today and found a lot of really interesting (but scary!) information about the impacts of sea levels rising. For example, it states that “the population potentially exposed to a 100-year coastal flood is projected to increase by about 20% if global mean sea level rises by 0.15 m relative to 2020 levels; this exposed population doubles at a 0.75 m rise in mean sea level and triples at 1.4 m without population change and additional adaptation.” The report also says that “sea level rise poses an existential threat for some Small Islands and some low-lying coasts.” I found these statistics to be really surprising and concerning.
During my research, I also found these important graphs which illustrate scientist’s confidence levels for different temperature change possibilities.
Camryn