Over the past several decades, I have watched as scientists argue over the anthropogenic climate change. One of the consequences that they predict is that the sea level will rise by a certain level. Since many people live near the water, this will displace them as the land disappears under the sea. One problem with this is scenario is that no one really understands what a sea level change will mean. Information is Beautiful solves this problem by showing in an infographic what a change of 1 meter all the way up to a change of 80 meters would mean to the world over the next 8,000 years. Not only that, but they also look at where the main contributors to that sea level rise would be coming from. From the article:
Another day, another set of bewildering climate figures. Today, key climate scientists withdrew their predictions. of a metre sea-level rise by 2100. Other scientists meanwhile claimed the 1m figure was way too conservative anyway. They predict anything up to 2m sea level rises over the next century.
Coral reefs have the ability to grow in the photic zone of the ocean and keep pace with any rate of sea level rise. The Pacific atolls have kept pace with 125 metres rise since the Pleistocene. Nothing here.