{"id":8095,"date":"2022-06-12T16:33:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T16:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8095"},"modified":"2022-06-12T16:33:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T16:33:24","slug":"a-better-solution-to-americas-big-hurricane-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8095","title":{"rendered":"A better solution to America\u2019s big hurricane problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Even just a small difference in a reef\u2019s height can make a big difference in risk, according to a study<\/a> published last year in the journal Nature<\/em>. Flood risk is often measured by what\u2019s called the 100-year-flood zone \u2014 an area in which the chance of a flood in a given year is 1 percent. If coral reefs in the US lose 1 meter of height, that zone in the US would grow by 104 square kilometers (or about 26,000 acres), putting about 51,000 more people at risk of flooding, the study found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s a big reason why losing reefs is so frightening. \u201cThese losses could escalate flood risk in just years to levels not anticipated by sea-level rise for decades or a century,\u201d the authors of the Nature<\/em> study wrote.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ultimately, protecting and restoring coral reefs is about much more than protecting coastal cities. Though they cover less than 1 percent of the world\u2019s oceans, reefs sustain about one-quarter<\/a> of all marine life and half<\/a> of all federally managed fisheries. It\u2019s hard to think of a better example of how helping an ecosystem is also helping ourselves.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/down-to-earth\/23046997\/coral-reefs-climate-change-hurricanes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Even just a small difference in a reef\u2019s height can make a big difference in risk, according to a study published last year in the journal Nature. Flood risk is often measured by what\u2019s called the 100-year-flood zone \u2014 an area in which the chance of a flood in a given year is 1 percent. If coral reefs in the US lose 1 meter of height, that zone in the US would grow by 104 square kilometers (or about 26,000 acres), putting about 51,000 more people at risk of flooding, the study found.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a big reason why losing reefs is so frightening. \u201cThese losses could escalate flood risk in just years to levels not anticipated by sea-level rise for decades or a century,\u201d the authors of the Nature study wrote.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Ultimately, protecting and restoring coral reefs is about much more than protecting coastal cities. Though they cover less than 1 percent of the world\u2019s oceans, reefs sustain about one-quarter of all marine life and half of all federally managed fisheries. It\u2019s hard to think of a better example of how helping an ecosystem is also helping ourselves.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1646,103,1232],"class_list":["post-8095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-coral-reefs","tag-environment","tag-hurricane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8096,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095\/revisions\/8096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}