Costas Synolakis, a preeminent authority on the impression of pure hazards, warned that Greece will see much more of its shoreline being swallowed up as native native climate change continues to push up the ocean stage.
“By 2050 even, when the ocean stage is estimated to rise an extra 20 to 30 centimeters, the shoreline at some seashores will recede by as tons as 30 meters, counting on the incline of the land,” Synolakis, who’s a professor of civil and environmental engineering on the Technical School of Crete and the School of Southern California, instructed state broadcaster ERT.
Synolakis went on to warn of the large financial price of huge swathes of tourism-dependent Greece’s intently developed shoreline being destroyed.
“We made quite a few calculations on the Academy’s evaluation coronary coronary coronary heart and, based totally completely on these calculations, the fee has already reached some 2.6 billion euros a yr,” he talked about, pointing to estimates based totally completely on which each sq. meter of shoreline brings 10-15 euros into the native financial system yearly.
“That’s what we now have already misplaced, and that’s moreover on an annual basis because of erosion merely retains rising,” he warned…
