The heavy rains of the Lower Mainland this week seems to have everyone talking weather and climate down south these days. As everyone looks to the skies and wonders when it all is going to end.
The Tyee has been busy researching weather and climate statistics and with an article currently on their website they will have Rupertites thinking about higher ground. The article which examines the real estate boom in the Lower Mainland, which seems to be built upon lands that may soon be lakes raises a few concerns over the effect of global warming and its effect on the oceans of the world.
The key part of the article for the North coast is this little snippet: “Prince Rupert, for instance, experienced nearly three times as much rise in sea level over the last few decades as did the GVRD, which itself experienced more than the global average.”
So, do you sell your Beach Place home for a Silversides Estate? Leave the Seal Cove apartments for the relative safety of the Summit Avenue townhouses? Or do you just buy a good old fashioned sump pump and bucket and get ready to bail?
Well in reality, the actual rise of the oceans is not going to have your basement flooded anytime soon, (though the fragile state of our water mains might be a worrisome thing for us all) and most of us will probably have gone on to our reward, long before the waves are lapping up on the Roosevelt Park shoreline.
In fact there is probably much more danger to the Lower Mainland with its Richmond, Delta and Surrey lowland populated areas facing a soon to be waterfront estate for a front yard.
But it’s a warning that things are changing in our environment and that we need to take better heed to the signs that are coming our way now.
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