Numbers of floods could quadruple

Add to heat domes and entire towns burning to the ground and the Colorado River drying up and the death of the Great Barrier Reef: the moon’s wobble.

The world faces an onslaught of coastal flooding starting in the mid-2030s due to a “wobble” in the moon’s orbit, Nasa has warned.

Numbers of floods could quadruple as the gravitational effects of the lunar cycle combine with climate change to produce “a decade of dramatic increases” in water disasters.

The space agency said coastal cities would experience “rapidly increasing high-tide floods” and they would occur in “clusters” lasting a month or longer.

The wobble is regular and has been known about since 1728, but now it’s in addition to rising sea levels.

Bill Nelson, head of the space agency, said: “Low-lying areas near sea level are increasingly at risk and suffering due to increased flooding, and it will only get worse.

“The combination of the moon’s gravitational pull, rising sea levels, and climate change will continue to exacerbate coastal flooding on our coastlines and across the world.”

So it’s crucial to plan ahead, he explained…but we all know that’s not going to happen.

Assistant professor Phil Thompson, lead author of the report, said: “It’s the accumulated effect [of the floods] over time that will have an impact.

“If it floods 10 or 15 times a month, a business can’t keep operating with its parking lot under water. People lose their jobs because they can’t get to work. Seeping cesspools become a public health issue.”

But that’s in the future. We don’t know how to plan for future floods, and we’re too busy campaigning for trans inclusion to figure it out.

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