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Mitigating and adapting to climate change in coastal areas: what can
we do?
Robert J. Nicholls
Faculty of Engineering and the Environment University of Southampton
Consequences and Behaviour: An event showcasing “Clean Carbon” research
18 May 2016 | 15:00 - 17:00 | Building 58/1067, Highfield Campus
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Plan
• Introduction • Sea-Level Rise • Climate Mitigation • Adaptation • Concluding Thoughts
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Sea levels over the last 500,000 years
From Grant et al., 2014 doi:10.1038/ncomms6076
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Map by Emanuel Soeding, Christian-Albrechts University, using U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Etopo2v1 elevation data.
South-east USA Continental Shelf
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< 1mm/year
6mm/year
> 20mm/year
Based on data from Fleming et al. 1998, Fleming 2000, & Milne et al. 2005
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Human Drivers of Climate Change
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Paper by Mercer (1978)
West Antarctic ice sheet and CO2 greenhouse effect: a threat of disaster
Nature 271, 321 - 325 (26 January 1978);
doi:10.1038/271321a0
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Hoffman et al. (1983) EPA Report By 2100: 1.44 to 2.17 m rise is most likely 0.56 to 3.45 m rise cannot be ruled out
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Hurst Spit December 1989
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Global Sea-Level Rise: 1700 to 2100 IPCC AR5 Report 2013
Source: Figure 13.27 -- Chapter 13 IPCC AR5 WG1 Report. Compiled paleo-sea-level data from geological evidence to 1880, tide gauge data from 1880 to present, altimeter data since 1993 to present, and central estimates and likely ranges for projections from present to 2100 based on RCP2.6 (blue) and RCP8.5 (red) emission scenarios.
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Global Sea-Level Rise: 1700 to 2100 IPCC AR5 Report 2013
Source: Figure 13.27 -- Chapter 13 IPCC AR5 WG1 Report. Compiled paleo-sea-level data from geological evidence to 1880, tide gauge data from 1880 to present, altimeter data since 1993 to present, and central estimates and likely ranges for projections from present to 2100 based on RCP2.6 (blue) and RCP8.5 (red) emission scenarios.
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What’s at stake? Coastal Cities with more than one million people in 2005
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Need for Action
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Climate Mitigation and Sea-Level Rise
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First IPCC Sea-level rise scenarios Source: Warrick and Oerlemans (1990)
66 cm rise
41 cm rise
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Temperature and sea level Model: HadGEM2-ES, including regional (patterned) sea-level rise
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Sea levels will continue to rise, even if temperatures stabilise
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Sea-Level Rise vs. Emissions: 2000 to 2500
(Source: Figure 13.13 -- Chapter 13 IPCC AR5 WG1 Report)
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Sea-level timescales
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Carbon dioxide, temperature and sea level timescales (source: IPCC TAR, 2001)
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Climate Mitigation Source: MIT Joint Program on Global Change
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Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise
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The coastal system: Other climate drivers
Source: IPCC AR4 WG II
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The coastal system: Non-climate drivers
Source: Nicholls et al. 2014 Masselink and Gehrels (eds)
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Observed coastal impacts Summary of detection and attribution of climate change
in IPCC AR5 Report
Source Figure 5.5 in Wong et al. (2015)
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Beach Nourishment – Bournemouth BIS4
Photo courtesy of Dr. David Harlow, Bournemouth Corporation
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Building with Nature, Sand Motor, Holland Coast
Photo courtesy of Bas Jonkman, TUD
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Coastal Cities More than one million people in 2005
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Coastal Cities and Sea-Level Rise (Hallegatte et al., 2013; Nature Climate Change)
• Failing to adapt (protect) is not a viable option in coastal cities: damages could reach $1 trillion per year
• Indicative annualized adaptation (protection) costs are about $350 million per year per city, or approximately $50 billion per year for the 136-city sample.
• These are of the same order of magnitude as residual losses with adaptation.
• Managing coastal flood risk requires doing more than maintaining today’s standard of protection (and current probability of flooding).
• While improving standards of protection could maintain or reduce risk levels (expected annual damages) and decrease the number of floods, the magnitude of losses when floods do occur will still increase. So expect bigger disasters!
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What are the limits to protection? (Nicholls et al., 2015)
Three types of limit might exist? • Physical/engineering limits • Economic/financial limits • Socio-political limits If you cannot protect you will use other adaptation methods – essentially retreat and maybe (forced) migration
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Thames Barrier
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London’s Flood Issues
Thames Barrier
Barriers Defences – 337 km long
Source: Tim Reeder, Environment Agency
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Time 2007 2050 2100
• more people/property
• climate change
• ageing FD
Unacceptable Tolerable
As low as reasonably possible
Managing Flood Risk through the Century
Source: Tim Reeder, Environment Agency
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1m 0m 4m 3m 2m Max water level rise:
New barrier, retain Thames Barrier, raise defences
Raise Defences
New barrier, raise defences
New barrage
Existing system
Improve Thames Barrier and raise d/s defences
Over-rotate Thames Barrier and restore interim defences
Flood storage, improve Thames Barrier, raise u/s & d/s defences
Flood storage, over rotate Thames Barrier, raise u/s & d/s defences
Flood storage, restore interim defences
Previous Extreme Defra and upper part of new TE2100 likely range
Top of new H++ range
TE2100 developed options Source: Tim Reeder, Environment Agency
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Concluding Remarks • Sea level has shaped the world’s coast through time • Human-induced sea-level rise has a major impact potential
over the 21st Century (and beyond) • Planning for these issues would seem prudent • The most appropriate response will be a combination of
climate mitigation and adaptation • Mitigation has the goal of minimising the high-end changes • Adaptation is required to the “residual” committed sea-
level rise • Limits to adaptation and protection are poorly understood • These issues require considerably more research coupled to
policy formulation
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Mitigating and adapting to climate change in coastal areas: what can
we do?
Robert J. Nicholls
Faculty of Engineering and the Environment University of Southampton
Consequences and Behaviour: An event showcasing “Clean Carbon” research
18 May 2016 | 15:00 - 17:00 | Building 58/1067, Highfield Campus