From an article in Al Jazeera: Tidal floods: Coming soon to an East Coast city near you. Climate change causing higher sea levels that could soon inundate much of America’s waterfront real estate.

Many major American coastal cities will face a huge surge in the number of tidal floods they experience as sea levels rise due to climate change, a new report has warned.

The study, conducted by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), covered 52 American cities stretching from Portland, Maine, to Freeport, Texas, and predicted a dramatic increase in flood events linked to high tides over the next few decades.

According to the UCS report, over half of the cities surveyed in the study will see triple the amount of tidal floods in the next 15 years than they do at present. In three decades, when sea levels are expected to rise by at least one foot, nine of the locations are projected to see a ten-fold increase to about 240 floods yearly.

The original study is titled Encroaching Tides How Sea Level Rise and Tidal Flooding Threaten U.S.East and Gulf Coast Communities over the Next 30 Years. Both the full report (72 pages) and an executive summary are available from this site.