By the year 2100, roughly 42,000 homes along California’s tranquil coastline will be uninhabitable due to rising seas, according to a recent Zillow report.
While 42,000 homes is less than half a percent of the 14+ million homes in the state, the financial loss is still significant — about $50 billion. Worse, the report doesn’t even consider the many homes that won’t be fully under seawater, but subject to excessive inland flooding due to rising sea levels.
Zillow’s report uses data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to determine which homes will be under water if changing climate conditions continue on their present course. At the current rate of change, NOAA forecasts a six-foot sea level rise by the year 2100.
The California city to experience the most homes lost to rising seas is Long Beach. Here, 5,100 homes will be under water by 2100. This includes all of Naples and much of Belmont Shore and Peninsula.
In second place, San Diego will lose about 2,300 homes to rising sea levels by 2100. This includes almost all of Mission Beach and parts of La Playa.
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Actions for homeowners to take now
2100 is a distant date, one that the current generation of homeowners won’t live to see. This fact makes it easy to shrug off talk of rising seas and the other effects of climate change. But seas won’t rise six feet over night. Sea levels rise about one-eighth of an inch each year, according to NOAA, and the pace is quickening.
Higher seas have already led to storms with greater impacts on the coast, including more flooding and more costly property damage.
Today’s homebuyers can protect themselves now by doing their full due diligence before purchasing along the coast or inland areas prone to flooding. Property needs to be inspected for signs of erosion before purchase, as basic home insurance plans do not cover property damage or loss due to sea level rise or erosion.
Most flood insurance plans will cover erosion due to floods. Therefore, purchasing adequate flood insurance in coastal and flood-prone areas is crucial for the forward-minded homeowner.
Finally, current homeowners and agents living and working in coastal communities susceptible to sea level rise can be vocal supporters of actions to lessen the effects of climate change. Flood prevention plans are becoming more essential as sea levels rise, and it’s important for local communities — particularly those that are the first to be affected — to prepare now to lessen the financial losses to occur down the road.
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What will those replacement homes be built with, replacing every 80 years? A tree can mature in 80 years but due to global warming vast forests have burned and there is a lack of affordable wood to harvest for now to replace homes every 80 years in California. The homes built through 1950 or so (now 70-117 years old) used the premium old trees from Northern California forests, and many of those old groves are gone of mature trees due to fires and harvesting, and are now young protected forests struggling to survive due to diseases from global warming. There are new bugs/fungus that infested the surviving forests that are also suffering from climate change including acid rain (Canada, Germany, etc.).
Your gang gave up the term global warming years ago. Once people realized that it was nothing but a taxation scam, your puppet masters changed the name of their charade to climate change.
Based on her theory that once something goes in one direction it will always go in that direction, in late 2007, this pseudo-economist would have been telling us that. because housing prices have been going up for several years, they will go up and up and up forever and ever. Wondering if she is aware of the recent NASA report showing decreasing sea levels over the past couple of years? Wonderin is she is aware of NASA, or gets all of her data from the bible of Gore. Wondering if she is aware that the climate has been changing since the dawn of time, and that a changing climate is necessary for the survival of the planet. Wondering what happened to global warming, the original label of this tax scam. Wonder what happened to universities and colleges, which used to teach critical thinking skills, but have now become indoctrination camps.
Zillow Corp. is based in Seattle and for some reason the uber-left has migrated there over the last two decades. With their comrades in Portland and Sacramento, they have made a religion out of the fear of violent climate change, global warming and global flooding. I haven’t seen NOAA’s doom and gloom flooding maps, however, NOAA now posts data from hundreds of sea level data collection stations on their website. Thus, when one analyzes NOAA’s original sea level monitoring station data, it’s apparent that ocean levels have not risen anywhere in the world in a statistically significant manner especially since there is only 100 years of data, at best. For example, using local daily sea level data collected at Long Beach from 1923 through 2016, the sea level is expected, with a 95% confidence level of +/- 0.24 mm/year, to rise 0.96 mm per year, or about 3.7 inches (0.31 ft.) per 100 years. Similarly, San Diego, based on 100+ years of daily readings, 1910 through 2016, can expect its sea level to rise about 8.5 inches per 100 years. Even in San Francisco, where a majority of the global warming fear originates, based on daily readings from 1897 through 2016, NOAA estimates the sea level rising at less than 8.0 inches per 100 years. Accordingly, as many buildings have a useful life of up to 80 years, it appears a risk-adverse owner today may only need to build slightly further off the beach to avoid sea water flooding over the life of the building. It would be interesting to have an insurance underwriter comment on the accuracy of NOAA’s sea water flooding forecast and if this new information changes their underwriting policies for new construction in or near beach areas.
Ha Ha Ha… You actually believe all that nonsense. Thats funny. It’s not happening!!
Sea level has been rising since the last ice age ended 8,000 years ago. The rate if increase for the last few hundred years is about 1 inch per decade. Even if you assume acceleration, we are talking about a whopping 8-10 inch rise by 2100. Truly a non event. Holland, for example, has managed to keep dry land up to 23 feet below current sea level with sea wall barriers.
The climate change apocalypse is all hype.
One shouldn’t be too alarmed about rising sea levels on the West Coast of the United States. Using NOAA’s own website for such long term data, you’ll find that average tides will be almost at the same point in 100 years as they are now given long-term trends identified by tide measuring stations. Even houses directly on beaches built today should not be affected in 80 years, the standard useful life of a house. https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html