Log #1

Sea-level rise issue

     Different from the old model(bathtub model) used to predict sea-level rise in the future, coastal scientists and engineers provided an new model at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The new model  takes into account not only  rising water levels, but also other interact factors such as  the impacts of tides, storm surges, coastal infrastructure, defense frameworks, and even systems such as pollution, land use, poverty and health. According to the new model, about one-quarter of the world's population lives in coastal areas that will be unlivable by the year 2100.

     Sea-level rise is a global phenomenon; it is an important issue which sometime most of us ignore. To be honest, not until I started to read these articles about sea-level rise did I realize how close this serious problem was to human beings. One-quarter of the world's population needs to move higher in order to get away from that unavoidable water. Countries will be engulfed by the keeping rising sea; fertile farms will be covered by the broad ocean; passable roads will be hidden under that salty water. Eighty-three years later, the earth will provide bigger space for marine creatures and less room for
terrestrials. Although slow it seems to be, we cannot just stand aside, do nothing, and wait for the day we are expelled from our land.

     For further reading, I would like to explore knowledge about the causes of sea-level rise, and its impacts on each countries.


New Sea-Level Rise Projection Raises Threat to World's Coasts
By Kacey Deamer, Staff Writer
http://www.livescience.com/57216-sea-level-rise-projections-threaten-coasts.html