‘It’s happening now’: how rising sea levels are causing a US migration crisis

…Already, about 15 million American homes are at risk of flooding, and the threat is only going to get worse. A report released in February by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) projected that sea level along the US coastline would rise by 10 to 12in, on average, in the next 30 years – an uptick that would make damaging flooding occur 10 times more often than it does today. 

"It's important to understand in these communities that sea level rise is happening now," said William Sweet, an oceanographer with NOAA's National Ocean Service and the country's top scientist studying sea level rise. "Its impacts are happening now, and those impacts will grow worse in the next 30 years. Minor-nuisance flooding will be replaced by flooding that's more damaging to economies and to infrastructure."…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/07/its-happening-now-how-rising-sea-levels-are-causing-a-us-migration-crisis