03-11-2019, 04:39 AM
Sea level in Hilo might rise a foot or two in 20 years. Three to six feet by the year 2100. Most of Hilo will be above water..
As HOTPE points out Hilo's topography is sloped so as to be better situated than Honolulu, but even there the ground has enough topography to mitigate larger impacts like those anticipated in some places on the mainland. There is a great tool to help visualize Hawaii's sea level rise here:
https://www.pacioos.hawaii.edu/shoreline/slr-hawaii/
Which uses the global sea level rise projections from the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body of leading climate scientists and governmental representatives. Their website is here:
https://www.ipcc.ch
They project something just shy of 1 foot by 2040, and just over 3 feet by 2100.
For a more expansive view, both here and across the globe, and allowing for a much larger projection in rise..
https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/
Is a pretty cool tool..
As HOTPE points out Hilo's topography is sloped so as to be better situated than Honolulu, but even there the ground has enough topography to mitigate larger impacts like those anticipated in some places on the mainland. There is a great tool to help visualize Hawaii's sea level rise here:
https://www.pacioos.hawaii.edu/shoreline/slr-hawaii/
Which uses the global sea level rise projections from the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body of leading climate scientists and governmental representatives. Their website is here:
https://www.ipcc.ch
They project something just shy of 1 foot by 2040, and just over 3 feet by 2100.
For a more expansive view, both here and across the globe, and allowing for a much larger projection in rise..
https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/
Is a pretty cool tool..