Seal Beach residents were warned about a possible 3-foot rise in sea levels by the year 2100 in worst-case scenario presentation last week about coastal flooding caused by global warming. But even the presenters said it had a one-half of 1% chance of occurring.
Seal Beach prepares for extreme flooding because of sea level rise
Seal Beach residents got a look Wednesday, July 17, at what sea level rise could mean to them, thanks to a city presentation showing that large swaths of the small municipality could flood by 2050 and that the odds of even greater inundation will increase throughout the century.
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