Rising sea level puts Mumbai at risk !!

A study published recently revealed that much of Mumbai is at risk of being submerged in sea by 2050. This is frightening because it was said in one of IPCC report that Mumbai may sink by 2100 which is 50 year more than that of what is being revealed now.

A New Jersey based science organization, Climate Central, presented the research paper, and published in the journal 'Nature Communications'.

It is being said that rising sea could affect three times more people than it was previously thought. This comes in light when the researchers differentiated height between actual ground and the top of the buildings and trees.

Previously researchers uses the standard elevation measurements using satellites and the satellites struggle to differentiate between actual ground and top of the buildings and trees but now researchers used artificial intelligence to find the error and now they claim that they are more accurate with their results.

Global warming effects are increasing drastically and may impact millions and millions of people. Not only Mumbai, various other cities like Bangkok, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City, Basra and Alexandria are at risk due to rising sea levels. The research shows that around 150 million people living on land will be below the high tide line by 2050.

The research suggests that countries should start preparing now for more citizens to relocate them internally. It will also put much pressure on other cities as well because people will migrate from one place to another.

The researchers directly said that " it is coming " and we do not have much modern methods to deal with the situation coming our way.

This situation will definitely affect the regional stability as more and more people will relocate from one place to other.  People living in safer places will not allow outsiders to share their space with them and this results in regional conflicts.

We should have a proper plan to tackle the situation because we cannot completely overcome this situation but what we can is we can reduce it to some extent. For this both the government and the citizens have to come together.