Climate change threatens to cause trillions in damage to world’s coastal regions if they do not adapt to sea-level rise
Posted by Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily on 4 February, 2014
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New research predicts that coastal regions may face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the course of the 21st century. Global average storm surge damages could increase from about $10-$40 billion per year today to up to $100,000 billion per year by the end of century, if no adaptation action is taken....