This is what sea level rise will do to coastal cities 

How else do you think life in coastal cities will have to change to cope with sea level rise?

6:09 "You can't just pick up and move a city very easily" Patrick Star would beg to differ

10 billion USD... that's like 1/60th of the millitary budget of USA...

Just when I thought I'd never be able to afford to move closer to the beach I find out I don't have to.

They've been saying this for 40 years.

That's the most creative use of a superimposed Skype call on a MacBook I've ever seen.

“We can’t just move a city” Patrick Star: “hold my kelp shake “

New Yorkers should have let Amazon build the HQ in Manhattan just so Amazon gets underwater.

The Verge logo kinda looks like its from a dystopian megacorporation

US Coast is in need of some Dutch engineering !

Build a wall around new york. Best of all, new jersey will pay for it!

They can’t predict the weather tomorrow, but are so sure of the weather, 100 years from now.

Don't blame mother earth for living and breathing blame the developer's for building next to waters that are always rising and falling. Who builds on a flood plain ?

Lesson learned : Invest in inland properties

I have some "Ocean-front property in Arizona" for sale in 80 years.

Stop cutting down trees an plant more trees, trees hold thousands of gallons of water. Or you could build sham wow levy's.

What if the water level isn’t actually rising but all of our land is just sinking

"Once you unplug a freezer, you can't plug it back in." I mean... no?

Please link to the visualizer in description :)

You might remember that Miami was constructed below sea level to begin with

Two cities in my country (COLOMBIA) will dissapear sooner or later they are like under 10 meters over sea level. It's sad, goodbye Santa Marta and Cartagena.

laugh in the netherlands

Let's not forget about all the islands that are gonna be eradicated from the map

It’s not technically the water from melting glaciers that’s causing the sea levels to rise (it contributes, but not much). It’s the fact that as water molecules get warmer, they expand. Joe Scott did a video on that you can look up. The main way that melting glaciers actually affect the sea level is the fact they reflect sunlight away from the Earth’s surface because they’re white, hence keeping the Earth cooler. As the surface area of glaciers decreases, the less light is reflected, making the climate warmer, and in turn, the water molecules of the ocean expand and push back the shorelines. You can see this in action when you take a chilled unopened water bottle from the fridge and let it sit out for a while to warm up. You’ll notice that the bottle starts out crinkly and malleable when it’s cold, then when it warms up to room temperature or hotter, it becomes hard to squeeze.

the netherlands: *Yall are bad at this*

Solution: giant seawall from Bladerunner 2049

Dang, guess we shouldn’t have built buildings 10 feet from the ocean

Looking at some world maps, there is often a pale blue outline around areas of land. Some seemingly actually joining land masses together. This is shelves or offshore shallows, where once there was land. The process continues, if now at an accelerating rate. I live in Key West Fl, US. 4.3m above sea level. Property values are extremely high here. One day it will just disappear into the rest of the pale blue patch surrounding it.

The surging seas map needs a lot of work to be more user friendly, if you want old people (which is where the majority of climate change deniers reside) to use it, it needs to be way more friendly. I cannot figure out how to simply set a year and projected sea level rise for a location.

The Dutch are like: I guess you need me, i happen to live bellow sea level. give me new amsterdam back if you want to save florida

I really love to watch these stories,issues,explanation from you 'The Verge' team and learned a lot

We have been told for at least 30 years that sea level rise will inundate coasts in the near future. NYC was supposed to be under 10 feet of water by 2014 even if the estimated are off by several years shouldn't NYC be under at least 4 or 5 feet of water by now? Why are Venice, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands not under water today? You do know that places like Miami are actually SINKING not being covered by sea rise?

I was thinking maybe as a stop-gap savior to impending sea level rise, it may be worth a feasible study of creating a vast inland ocean in a large arid area: how to make it a viable habitat, implications of it's effect on weather: If it could be designed to siphon the top warmer ocean layer. Just a thought

China would just build more islands, no biggie

One of the best MacBook pro ads I've ever seen. 😋

This is happening around the world, because people loved to have a short way to the ocean, thats why they built their houses along the sea, but now those who want to keep their feet dry have to move up high above the sea, I remember that when I lived up in north of Norway and I read a lot of local papers, and there I found an ad about the rising of sea levels and that Norwegian companies were looking at this seriously and I hope we hear from them soon!!!

"Once we unplug a freezer, it's unplugged. You can't plug it back in..." That's a ridiculous analogy. Of course you can plug it back in! What king of fridge do you own?

Verge science but not enough on the verge to use actual scientific units like meters

“Once you’ve unplugged a freezer you can’t plug it back in.” Wait.....yes you can lol Not the best analogy but I get what you’re saying haha

I'm sure you've heard of the concept of a Sahara Sea, wouldn't going through with that endeavor lower sea levels by at least a few inches due to so much water being diverted into the new sea? I'm not saying that'll solve the problem, just thinking that would slow down the rate of rising tides a bit while also tackling another ecological issue.

So global warming caused underwater ruins in Minecraft

I do remember seeing a sign, which is some kind of an artwork but with a hint of warning, somewhere in front of Rotterdam Central station, telling people these places would all be underwater very soon.

3:50 - subtitles just say (mumbling)... "but we also looked at intense precipitation." Who even wrote these? XD

Verge Science: From where did you accumulate the data to come out with these projections of increments on sea levels

If you live near a coast the best way to combat it is to encase your entire home in state of the art advanced glass. And get a submarine, or submersesable object that is also a car, or some amphibious vehicle

So should we start saying "Flood the rich" now ?

Yay the beach will be getting closer to us, shorter vacation trips!

Every time a new boat is put in the ocean, the sea level will rise. A tiny tiny amount. But if you consider the millions of boats and barges in the oceans, it has to add up to to some measurable amount. Right?

Sea water : " I am tired of being an iceberg living in freezing climate , it's time to become water again , take back my beach from human. "

NYC: (flooding) Federal Govt: we don’t have enough money to save the biggest city in the Country

Build that seawall?

With weathering with you, it visualises what a city might look like if underwater.

Actually Alexandria use to have a bit more coast line about 2000 years ago, but it's lost about half a mile of coast line if not more since 2000 years ago, funny.... cause the sea levels rose about 800 years ago around that area.

I wish they use metric instead of feet

My city has had flooding on the regular, and in the last 3yrs we've had two sinkholes and a tornado. Things our area had never had before. (One of the sinkholes was HUGE, the size of an Olympic swimming pool, the other was admittedly minor.) Thing is? I live in the capital of Canada. That massive sinkhole I mentioned? Yea it happened a block away from Parliament. Ottawa's built on the Ottawa River, which gets fresh water from melting ice and feeds into the ocean, so it's directly impacted by this shit.

They will have to deal with it the same way it would be if no co2 had ever been released.

A very simple solution is, MOVE AWAY FROM THE COAST!!! Cities have relocated many times in the past. Does anyone ever think about flood zones?? No matter what is done to control rising sea levels, there are STILL tidal waves / tsunamis, and larger than normal hurricanes. Look at the aftermath of the recent hurricane flooding of Florida, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, .....

Am I the only person that experiences a sense of "schadenfreude" about sea level rise. Like it's frustrating that people don't recognize the threat it has, so I'm just like, WHATEVER!

Fantastic reporting. Great job Verge team!

Well strengthening the coastal areas is a good idea anyways. Even if sea levels drop, erosion will still occur. That community in Louisiana that is moving isnt because of rising sea, its because it is built on a lowland silt in the Mississippi River delta. New land forms there and then erodes away. Its been going on forever. Since we put levys and Dams all over the place, the silt that naturally flows downstream isnt forming new land in the delta, the ocean is still eroding so the land is just disappearing and not naturally being replaced. That is the situation with many coastal wetlands. I lean toward climate change. I also think we cant stop it. I think we should focus on minimizing it as much as we can. If it turns out we were overreacting, fine we now have better protection from the occasional floods and natural erosion.

I got an ad about saving our oceans, now I need an ad about saving our land.

Yay, I live one block away from the beach. *chuckles* (I'm in danger)

We could have a surprise sea level rise of a foot by 2030!

It's happening in Michigan. A lot of the beaches disappeared this year.

Strange how coastal areas on every continent are seeing increased development and rising values despite the doom and gloom news of sea level rise.

This feels awfully familiar. They were saying this back in the 70s that the sea level would rise a foot by the year 2000

Not to mention that as people are displaced they'll move to bigger cities, causing more issues down the line. Climate change is humanity's tipping point, where we decline or survive.

You fail to mention how long it takes for the ice caps to melt. You also fail to mention how bad your climate projections have been in the past.

Humanity deserves extiniction for what they did to Earth because of money

Ancestors when cities flood: We should move Us when cities flood: We must engineer the planet

Climate have always changed... Warm periods followed by cold periods. The idea that our temperatures and sea levels are the norm is just not true.

Continental drift is about 25mm a year. This invalidates all sea level gauge data. But understanding that would be difficult for a modern climate scientist.

This was supposed to happen decades ago. To think innovations won't emerge within 100 years to combat these issues is absurd.

“Once you’ve unplugged a freezer you can’t plug it back in” Umm, yes you can. Dude, you need a better analogy than that.

Yes, the sea levels are rising but the land is also subsiding to accommodate it. Those who are prepared are not scared of these natural changes, although human activities may have accelerated the process somewhat. We cannot stop what has always been. Earth is a living, moving system. As part of these processes, land fissures will continue to occur, mountains will fracture, slide and begin to fill in valleys and through rain and wind, be spread out and/or redistributed. This will change the topography of everything we currently see.

3 years later the sea level is still the same.

Plenty of land in Nebraska....stop issuing permits to build in these areas a make those with properties have a demo plan/fund for when the waters start to rise.

Venice's water heights changed so much the past 500 years. those cannels used to be roads!🍻

The map is not going to change that much by the year 2100. Just like it has not changed that much since the year 1900.

Brilliant video on here to watch. 'Shameless sea level'. Great pics on here of before and after.

At the 6 min mark you use the same video in the opening credits of the Undercover Boss show.....so fun.

Lower Manhattan needs an AEnima anyway. "Learn to swim"🤘

I’ve seen the future and this is the least of our problems *mark my words*

and the rest of us are probably going to be paying the taxes to protect the people living in those cities.

12800-+ years ago the oceans rose 400 feet practically over night swallowing up coastal lands around the world. Maybe we all should have been taught this while in school. Now you know . If you live next to any body of water, river,stream,lake,sea or ocean don’t complain . Just move. That’s all it is.

Verge is about as good at science as it is at building computers.

I'm a conservative independent in Florida who believes strongly in climate change... with that said, I believe that nobody deserves to lose their homes more than Floridians for voting in year after year politicians who deny climate change.

It's fair to suspect that promoters of rising sea levels will profit somehow with all the studies, redevelopment people, construction, etc. etc. I live 2 miles from the ocean . . it hasn't risen an inch.

This is great. When do I need to start buying waterfront real estate. Are we making science videos on what might happen nowadays?

I want to criticize two things: Firstly, use Metric! At least put the metric number on screen in post. Secondly, you could've used a noise filter on the sound from the laptop-guy. Would sound much better!

“Once we unplug a freezer, it’s unplugged. You can’t plug it back in and it’s going to melt.” What kind of crazy-ass electrical plug do you have attached to your freezer at home? You’d think the CEO of that kind of organization would have better metaphors concerning global warming.

Dear Verge Science Team, Isn't one way to deal with rising ocean levels by starting with putting in rust-proof, steel pilings driven into the bedrock of New York City.For example, they could start block by block. First put in pilings that will rise to a platform of, say, 3 meters. On the platform, once it is secure, 12 feet above street level, they could begin to reconstruct the new entrances to be used from the new level. The lower part of the building could remain and the 'new' foundation' fortified. I am an inventor, and I know one thing: There are ways to do things with existing structures that can be renewed and repurposed using things already in place. The idea is this: Little by little, Manhattan could remain the same, but a new street level would gradually be put in. By 2100, say, the low-lying areas would be ready for the 12 foot rise in foundation level to be put into everyday action. The architects would see the holes in this plan. It's off the top of my mind. We must incorporate the sea level rise in our thinking and realize that from now on, the earth is going to re-adjust to a massive influx of fresh water pouring into the océans and changing coastlines around the world. If our new structures can simply be elevated to meet each new rise in ocean levels, it can be a win/win situation. The challenge is to keep the coastlines as they are but adapt & build a new city-sea-scape.

The problem with these projections is they show humans still on the planet when all this happens. We will all be long gone.

We was suppose to be under water 50 years ago and we are not even close

I'm still hiding in my garage with camping stove and a handgun awaiting the Y2K disaster.

It's not just coastal cities. Look at all of the flooding that's happening this spring with the snow melt and a little rain. Three to five feet of water in the plains where you pull up to a stop sign in a boat. My city is 735 feet above sea level.

Hey folks, how can I contact you?

**laughs in slowly submerging tropical archipelago country**

Since the end of the last Ice Age sea levels have risen some 400 feet. What evidence is there that shows sea levels were to stop rising and remain at the current levels forever and ever?

I thought it was the Discord pluck when I heard the tune at 0:48 The plucky synth is so similar.