The Indian Coastal areas are expected to witness 0.1 metres to 0.3 metres in the next two to three decades due to climate change.
According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in the next 30 years, 12 coastal cities of India will be inundated which includes Mumbai. Moreover, cities like Chennai, Kochi, Bhavnagar will get smaller. In order to deal with these effects of global warming, people living in coastal areas will have to move to safer places.
NASA had earlier created the Sea Level Projection Tool. With the help of this, NASA has managed to curate the recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). As per the report, in the next 30 years, the world will have to experience extreme heat. If carbon emissions and pollution are not dealt with, the temperature will increase by an average of 4.4 degrees Celsius. In the next two decades, the temperature will increase by 1.5 degrees Celsius. If the temperatures experience such a rise, it is obvious that the glaciers will melt which will bring destruction to the plains and sea areas.
This report features 12 Indian cities with Bhavnagar hit by 2040 followed by Kochi (0.15 m), Mormugao, Kandla and Okha (0.13m at each location) and Mumbai (0.12m) amongst coastal cities and towns in the present global greenhouse gas emission cut scenario from the current (1995-2014 baseline) level.
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