Rising seas will cut off many properties before they’re flooded

Enlarge / If this road is your only route to the outside world, it might not matter that your house didn’t flood.Maurice Alcorn / EyeEm

Climate change produces lots of risks that are difficult to predict. While it will make some events—heatwaves, droughts, extreme storms, etc.—more probable, all of those events depend heavily on year-to-year variation in the weather. So, while the odds may go up, it’s impossible to know when one of these events will strike a given location.

In contrast, sea level rise seems far simpler. While there’s still uncertainty about just how quickly ocean levels will rise,

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