Sea level rises could cause coastal areas along Texas's stretch of the Gulf of Mexico to be consumed by water, modeling suggests.
Coastal areas along Texas's stretch of the Gulf of Mexico could be vulnerable to being consumed by water as sea levels rise due to the effects of climate change, modeling suggests.By the year 2100, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates there will be between 43 and 84 centimeters of sea level rise, but that an increase of 2 meters 'cannot be ruled out.
Galveston would become a much smaller island, with water subsuming swathes of built-up areas, including the location of the Galveston County Historical Museum and the Strand Historic District. Scholes Airport would effectively be retaken by the sea, assuming no mitigation or adaptation efforts are taken by then.
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