Beaches, and roads, homes, wastewater treatment plants, as well as other infrastructure types along the coast, are specifically susceptible to a rise in sea level linked because of climate change
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A new research study in Nature Scientific Reports found that the probability of extreme flooding along the U.S. Coastlines. And, what's even worse is that it is predicted to double every half a decade and that dangerously high levels of water which were expected to be seen every half-a-century will turn yearly occurrences by 2015, and daily incidences by 2100.

Relatively, this study was financially backed by the Marine Hazards and Resources Program, and USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards, and was reviewed before publication, which included two other unknown reviewers.

Beaches, and roads, homes, wastewater treatment plants, as well as other infrastructure types along the coast, are specifically susceptible to a rise in sea level linked because of climate change.

Meanwhile, millions and millions of people could be obliged to move as the encroaching waters threaten their respective towns.

More so, infrastructure will need to either be moved or adapted. Business and tourism, on the other hand, suffer as well, as the beaches vanish.

Authors' Discovery

The research's authors discovered that the coast, particularly Southern California, would specifically be susceptible to flooding in the years yet to come.

Whether an individual's favorite spot will be flooded, and when it is going to happen, it relies on the current infrastructure's location and topography.

Low-lying areas with homes and roads close to the water are possibly "to fare worse than places" with giant cliffs between the sea and them.

This means that it is not looking quite impressive for places such as Cardiff and Venice.

A recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey found that in the middle of "half and two-thirds" of the beaches of California could be by the year 2100.

Steps Being Taken

Currently, there are heated arguments on how to address the issue of coastal flooding with several people campaigning for the giant sea walls to shield from erosion.

Other people say waters should be allowed to encroach inland naturally. The formerly-mentioned initiative that was recommended to be taken could result in loss of coastal access and beaches. 

Meanwhile, the latter-mentioned solution could result in loss, specifically homes, beaches, roads, and homes. However, it showed an opportunity of allowing the new formation of beaches, not to mention the building of infrastructure for everyone's new reality. Results will differ significantly according to location.

Undeniably, solutions may not be easy. They are complicated, particularly in California, as the state has been home to the "largest amount of coastal residents in the U.S." with more than 25 million people who live near the sea.

Incidentally, more than $100 billion costs of assets in the massive natural ecosystems, as well as the coast in California, could be highly risky.

Substantially, sea levels are interfering already into the existing wetlands. With present urban progress in California, there is said to be no place for such wetlands to "to travel inland" to survive.

Additionally, the state is encountering a time clock, with communities on the coast already facing major flooding, and two-thirds of these Southern Californian beaches on track to vanish.

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