Rising sea level could have costly impact at North Carolina coast

Name: Rising sea level could have costly impact at North Carolina coast
Uploaded: 2022-02-15T22:58:28.000Z
Duration: 1 min 37 s
Description: A new report projects the U.S. sea level will rise as much in the next 30 years, as it did in the past 100 years.

A new report projects the U.S. sea level will rise as much in the next 30 years, as it did in the past 100 years.

Posted 2/15/2022, 10:58:28 PM

WE WILL SEE ANOTHER 10-12

INCHES OF SEA LEVEL RISE BY

2050.

SCIENTISTS SAY THIS WILL LEAD

TO A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN

COASTAL FLOODING EVEN ON SUNNY

DAYS.

SEA LEVEL RISING ALSO AMPLIFY

HURRICANE STORM SURGE, COASTAL

EROSION AND LOSS.

KAT CAMPBELL IS IN THE WRAL A

SEVERE WEATHER CENTER WITH OUR

RISING SEAS COULD EFFECT

THINGS IN NORTH CAROLINA.

JUST A FEW DAYS AGO WE SAW THE

HOUSE IN THE AREA SUCH AS

STRANGE THING, COLLAPSING INTO

THE SURF AT CAPE HATTERAS.

COULD THIS BE A SIDE EFFECT?

>> IT FORTUNATELY WE WILL SEE

MANY MORE SITES LIKE THAT IN

THE FUTURE.

BUT WE SEE, OFTEN AT SEA

LEVELS, THE BIG TAKE AWAY FROM

THE STUDY IS THE ALARMING RATE

SEA LEVEL RISE IS ACCELERATING.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT SEA LEVEL

RISING BY CENTURY YOU CAN

REALLY SEE SEA LEVEL RISE UP

UNTIL THE 20th CENTURY WE SEE A

SIX INCH RISE IN SEA LEVELS AND

WE SEE ANOTHER TWO FEET IN SEA

LEVEL RISES IS THE IMPACT IT

WOULD HAVE ON NORTH CAROLINA,

LARGE IMPACTS PUTTING OVER

30,000 PEOPLE AT RISK WITH THE

HIGHEST RISK BEING IN NORTH

CAROLINA.

OVER 22,000 HOMES AT RISK WITH

A RISE IN SEA LEVEL AT $3.5

TRILLION AND NEARLY 900 MILES

OF ROADWAYS WOULD BE PUT AT

RISK IN NORTH CAROLINA.

REALLY ALARMING TO SEE JUST A

SMALL CHANGE IN SEA LEVEL RISE.

REALLY COULD HAVE A HUGE IMPACT

NOT JUST ON OUR COUNTRY BUT

HERE AT HOME IN NORTH CAROLINA,