A growing number of studies are raising the possibility that sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the next, flooding many of the world's populated coastal areas
Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts for coastal regions.
Researchers predict that the hothouse effect of runaway greenhouse gases would ultimately boil our planet dry and make it incapable of sustaining life.