Scary NASA Study Reveals How Major Coastal Cities Are Rapidly Sinking Into the Sea

. . .An alarming new study by NASA has found that parts of California, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, are sinking into the ocean at a shocking rate, exacerbating the effects of sea level rise.

A study detailing this literal downward trend was published earlier this year in the journal Science Advances.

“In many parts of the world, like the reclaimed ground beneath San Francisco, the land is moving down faster than the sea itself is going up,” the study’s head author Marin Govorcin, who specializes in remote sensing at NASA’s Propulsion Laboratory, warned in a statement.

Accounting for this descent, sea levels — which are on the rise due to climate change — could creep up more than twice as much as previously forecast in Los Angeles and San Francisco in 25 years.

This could bode ominous for Golden State, which is the most populous in the US with nearly 40 million people — 68% of whom live on the coastline.

The study was devised to investigate which areas were most susceptible to ascending seas. (Read more from “Scary NASA Study Reveals How Major Coastal Cities Are Rapidly Sinking Into the Sea” HERE)

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