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This story first appeared on the Atlantic website and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
This week, a group of 78 representatives from American government agencies, universities, non-governmental organizations, and the insurance industry published a report on the threat climate change poses to U.S. coastlines. The document—formal title: “Coastal Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities: A Technical Input to the National Climate Assessment”—clocks in at nearly 200 pages, and functions as a lengthy addendum to the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s National Climate Assessment.
The report’s findings are unsurprising: Our coastlines are particularly vulnerable to climate change’s impacts—a fact that we have had proven to us anecdotally so many sad times in the recent past. Still, though, the document is worth reading—or, perhaps, skimming—in its entirety.
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