How can you prepare for sea levels rising?

Answer 1

Sea level is rising at a rate of about 3mm/year, after rising between 1-2mm/year most of last century. It's pretty easy to measure this, and it is well documented and not generally disputed.

Various countries and even local councils are making preparations, which include:

• building sea walls
• moving low lying houses and even towns to higher ground
• not allowing any more buildings on low lying ground near the coast
• move to higher land
• making new maps for flood zones
• planning for present wetlands which will move inwards - landwards
• planning for flooded stormwater drains

Local area governments reported the following problems in dealing with this:

• not enough funds
• not enough staff and ground workers
• not enough financial assistance
• very little legal powers
• too many other things happening.

A:Thankfully, sea level rise is projected to be about 1mm a year and this has been the trend for the past several thousand years. This allows us a great deal of time to map out our intentions logically. This means that there is no actual rush to make drastic changes just for the sake of making changes.