Long Beach Could Be Underwater By 2100, According To Report

The City by the Sea could be the City Under the Sea by 2100, according to data compiled in a new study.

The website 24/7 Wall St. looked at data released by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2018 that showed rising sea levels could have a huge impact on coastal American cities as years go on. Some estimates say that sea levels could rise by two to seven feet, which would inundate America's coast.

24/7 Wall St. reviewed the data for communities where at least 10 percent of its habitable land could experience chronic flooding by 2060, and Long Beach easily made the list of 35 cities.

According to the report, 26.4 percent of Long Beach's habitable land could be underwater by 2060, and a whopping 95.5 percent by 2100. That would put thousands of people at risk, as well as more than $700 million in property value.

Across the country, the impact would be huge. It would me that, by 2060, more than 300,000 homes worth $117.5 billion would be destroyed, and those numbers could jump to 2.4 million homes worth more than $1 trillion by 2100.

24/7 Wall Street said the steady rise in global surface temperatures is largely attributed to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. With rising temperatures, the report said, the world's ice has been melting and sea levels have been rising.

"As a result, barring major interventions, sooner or later thousands of coastal communities around the world will become uninhabitable," the report said.

A 2017 report by the National and Oceanic Atmospheric Administration outlined the "unlikely but increasingly plausible" extreme sea level rise that could hit the world by 2100.

Under a worst-case scenario, the report says the entire South Shore of Long Island would be underwater. The North Shore fares better, but the coast would still come inland. More than 150 Long Island towns would be impacted.