Disclaimer: the author of this here article actually stands to benefit from the findings of the research detailed below, as his family’s abode in northern Adelaide looks set to become pristine beachfront property. Sucks to be anyone else, though.
The planet is cooked, literally and figuratively.
At least, that’s what we can infer from the latest global climate projections. In stupendously bad news, the new estimations show huge swathes of coastal Australia are liable to sink underwater at the tail end of the century.
Projections from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Coastal Risk Australia posit that if climate change keeps fucking up the ice caps in Antarctica and Greenland, sea levels could rise by a cool two metres come 2100.
Luckily for us, they’ve been kind enough to overlay that data with a map of Australia, so we can contextualise how bad the situation is. Sydney could get mighty soggy: Woolloomooloo, Barangaroo, and more could vanish under the waves.
