''the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land. “plains fertilized by annual inundations” synonyms: alluvion, deluge, flood.''
and that's what we are familiar with today - look to maybe California for a good example
and then there's what I would call another kind (which might be not technically inundation) - which is when sea levels rise and land is then always underwater
of which there's plenty of geological evidence.
for humans - the technical inundation is the major concern - it will be the economics of that inundation that drive humans back up from flood and tidal surge etc.
So, when we get to debates about why sea levels are lower here than there - to me -
it's even more of a waste of energy and time discussing how - as is talking about Co2 - if it is a cause of cc, if it's mm problem etc etc
here's the reality -------------------- SLR IS different in different parts of the world
and, it's complicated -------- but, there's a simple thing for all of us - beyond doubt - that SL changes
Now - with what we see in our climate records happening right now - and not just one record - but, an entire chapter of clusters of climate records busting year after year lately -
it looks very much like that there's a high risk of rapid SLR ------ and that's a monster problem - because inundation will become more and more frequent --
if it continues - and the actual hard evidence atm suggests that it's going to continue and more rapidly - then there has to be the most significant economic impact on any coastal low lying populated areas -------------- it's odds on.
IMO, what we should be discussing is how to manage 'what if' ---------- not discussing how 'what if' is going to happen -
the evidence is clear - we are well on the way to 'what if'
go ask a Californian if they believe in SLR
ditto things like - when we get the next La Nina - do we think that the East Coast might be at high risk of flooding????????? -------------- if we are terribly lucky - some freak thing will prevent it - but, if it's as per usual -
we'll get more damage, more homeless and a new bumper insurance premium and more calls to not inhabit those areas ---------- or risk areas above the floods -
the relocation of humans has already begun
by the time that the areas which are now dry land are permanently submerged - we'll be long gone from them (hills look pretty good)
