Sea Level Rise

Global warming has raised global sea level about 8 inches since 1880, and the rate of rise is accelerating. Rising seas dramatically increase the odds of damaging floods from storm surges. A Climate Central analysis finds that sea level rise from warming has already doubled the odds of "century" or worse floods over widespread areas of the U.S., and the problem is growing by the decade.These increases threaten an enormous amount of damage. Across the country, nearly 5 million people live in 2.6 million homes at less than 4 feet above high tide — a level lower than the century flood line for most locations analyzed. And compounding this risk, scientists expect roughly 2 to 5 more feet of sea level rise this century — a lot depending upon how much more heat-trapping pollution humanity puts into the sky.

Our Sea Level Rise Reports, Factsheets, & Peer-Reviewed Papers


Surging Seas Search or navigate our interactive map tool to see maps of areas below different amounts of sea level rise and flooding, down to neighborhood scale, matched with area timelines of risk. The tool also provides statistics of population, homes and land affected by city, county and state, plus links to factsheets, data downloads, action plans, embeddable widgets, and more.
Sea Level Rise Threatens 100's of U.S. Energy Facilities A report, complete with interactive map, illustrates facilities threatened by sea level rise & coastal flooding.	Surging Seas: State-by-State Factsheets Simple, quotable sea level rise facts and findings along with research notes and reusable graphics.	Our Peer-reviewed Scientific Papers These scientific studies, published in 2012, were the basis for the Surging Seas interactive tool.

Climate Central & Sea Level Rise in the Media

Ben Strauss' Senate Testimony
on Sea Level Rise, April 19, 2012

NY Times Op-Ed By Ben Strauss
November 25, 2012

Coverage of our report,
Surging Seas, Inundates the Nation

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Our Sea Level Rise Science Team

	Ben Strauss, Ph.D. COO of Climate Central & the Director of the Program on Sea Level Rise
	Remik Ziemlinksi Graphic Programmer & KML Programmer
	Claudia Tebaldi, Ph.D. Senior Scientist, Climate Statistics