Climate change may continue to have a very serious impact on the fate of our world. There are many different impacts, from the possibility of ancient ice shelves melting and sea levels rising to the fact that we are flooding the atmosphere with greenhouse gases every year. A new study also claims that the probability of devastating century-old floods occurring every year from 2050 will rise to 1 percent.
The new study suggests carbon dioxide emissions could peak by 2040. The study claims that if this were to happen, regions around the world could begin to experience horrific and devastating century-old floods, on average, every nine to fifteen years. Based on historical data, it is said that there is a one percent chance of these types of floods occurring each year.
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) also says century-old floods can hit the same area several years in a row.
“The threshold that we would expect to be crossed every hundred years on average is so large that in a warmer climate they would no longer be considered 100-year events,” explained Hamed Moftakhari, a civil engineer and professor at the University of Alabama who co-authored the new study in Earth’s Future. will be exceeded more often.”
The study discusses the possibility of rising sea levels that could cause coastal communities around the world to be more frequently exposed to deadly and devastating century-old floods. Researchers state that these extreme floods may also be caused by water pushed inland by storms.
But perhaps most importantly, this study focuses on how the rising sea levels we’ve seen over the last few decades may have caused these 100-year floods. Whatever the cause, devastating floods are situations we definitely want to avoid…
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