the science is in first is about to be
in big trouble
climate change is expected to flood
countless coastal regions and wreak
havoc in many other ways welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten cities
that will be under water sooner than you
think
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
cities that are expected to incur the
greatest amount of damage from rising
sea levels and more intense storms in
the next few years and decades even
Jericho’s government was forced to find
an unusual rate of transportation number
10 New York USA over half the platforms
are flooded and service has been
suspended on all train many
climatologist predict the six-foot
floods could be a common occurrence by
the end of the century but before then
storms the hit the Big Apple are
expected to keep getting worse a wake-up
call came in 2012 with hurricane sandy
which flooded 88 thousand buildings and
killed over 40 people in the area you’re
talking probably thousands of about two
thousand three thousand feet of track
that is completely submerged New York is
doing a lot of planning to prevent these
disasters most notably being set to
begin construction on the big U in 2017
the big barrier system will form a
perimeter around the lower half of
Manhattan which is at the highest risk
of flooding number nine Abidjan Ivory
Coast in a primarily agricultural
country that’s being ravaged by drought
many denizens of the Ivory Coast are
finding refuge in the capital city while
the city does offer more economic
opportunities it as well as other cities
along the country’s coast is
unfortunately at great risk of flooding
adding to the risk of coastal flooding
is the ivory coast heavy rain season
which has spurred floods in the past the
large population of poor citizens who
live in improvised housing means the
flooding is even worse especially since
the country may not be able to afford
proper flood control systems number
eight Amsterdam the Netherlands about
two-thirds of the total land in the
is subject to flooding and among those
2/3 is the city of Amsterdam even before
the threat of sea level rise became
imminent Amsterdam was at a big risk it
sits right on the sea and has many
canals running through it on the bright
side the Dutch are frequently considered
the Masters of flood control and many of
the techniques they are implementing in
Amsterdam are being copied in New
Amsterdam also known as New York the
American city has already made plans to
copy several Dutch flood control
techniques while climate change is set
to affect all low-lying coastal cities
Amsterdam and other places in the
Netherlands will hopefully be somewhat
better prepared it’s a matter of
political will do you want to solve the
problem now and for the future number 7
Kolkata India as India continues to
modernize Kolkata lags slightly behind
the other Indian mega cities Kolkata
such a meager 5 feet above sea level and
it also has several rivers that run
through it it’s saving grace is that it
has a significant swath of wetlands near
the city that could divert a lot of
water in the event of a flood
unfortunately much of this wetland is
under development and could disappear at
the turn of the century the city boasted
650 wetlands but that number dropped to
27 as of 2016 the city will likely
experience intense floods that could
severely affect the poorer residents but
they could reduce this risk by embracing
the natural advantage of well-preserved
wetlands number 6
Miami USA Florida a flat swampy
Peninsula is one of the state’s most at
risk of flooding in the US the cities of
miami and miami beach already flood
regularly it simply takes a high tide or
a tropical storm in many parts of South
Florida experienced encroaching flood
waters the biggest loss from these
floods will likely be the valuable real
estate thanks and insurance companies
are expected to stop issuing mortgages
and policies for properties in the area
in the next few decades although
hundreds of millions of dollars have
been invested in the Miami and Miami
Beach areas it’s not likely to actually
prevent what is
all considered inevitable number five
Shanghai China some Shanghai residents
feel there is little hope if a tsunami
was to hit and are worried about recent
flooding in Beijing as the commercial
capital of China Shanghai is stealing a
lot of strain from its ever-growing
population putting the city in peril of
sinking due to its water use
historically much of the water used in
the city had come from depleting
aquifers beneath it this constant
drawing of water caused the city to sink
even after they noticed the problem and
took action in 1963 the city has
continued to sink a staggering 16 inches
since then on top of the sinking issue
Shanghai like other entries on this list
is a coastal city that sits on a river
and is flanked by a lake so it has
nowhere to run from encroaching flood
waters its status as China’s business
center makes its vulnerabilities even
more pressing number four Venice Italy
being one of the longest inhabited
cities on earth is no easy feat
especially when rising tides constantly
threaten its very existence Venice was
an obvious choice for this list since
it’s already frequently underwater but
their seasonal intermittent floods are
expected to become much worse as the
global sea level rises since Venice has
been dealing with flooding for so long
they have a couple of tricks up their
very wet sleeves the most notable is the
most flood gates which when completed
will block the Venetian Lagoon off from
the Adriatic Sea some local residents
believe that stopping the tides from
coming into Venice will change the
lagoons ecosystem and will turn Venice
into a stagnant home number three Mumbai
India though the catastrophic flood that
overwhelmed Mumbai in 2005 was a wake-up
call the city unfortunately did little
to address its perilous situation in a
decade that followed climate scientists
have said that the likelihood of similar
events could double by 2080 and that
catastrophic events will probably happen
in Mumbai even sooner than that as an
island city Mumbai is subject to the
full brunt of rising tides and the
typhoons spun up by increasingly extreme
weather
number two New Orleans USA one of the
problems is that the system is designed
to keep the water out but there was no
provision really for managing the water
once it got inside the city after the
devastation of Hurricane Katrina which
flooded 80% of the city New Orleans
still remains at high risk situated on
the intersection of a lake a river and
the Gulf of Mexico and with much of its
land below sea level
it’s unsurprising that this city is
slated to have more problems with
flooding in the future while Katrina
gave them the alarm they needed to boost
the city’s flood control infrastructure
it still may not be enough to weather a
super storm that may shock the Gulf
Coast given enough time before we unveil
our number one pick here are some
honorable mention
[Music]
the story’s being caused by a
meteorological phenomenon called the
pineapple Express which scented
atmospheric river of rain across the
Pacific from Hawaii towards Northern
California number 1 Guangzhou China
water level now is that miny
but an hour ago it was almost at the
chancel of my fridge was under the water
one of China’s larger coastal cities
this is one of multiple metropolis on
the South China Sea
in fact severe risk of flooding similar
to cities like James Young Guangzhou is
at risk for several reasons an urban
population boom land subsidence and of
course climate change of all the cities
on this list it stands to take the
biggest financial hit from flooding with
estimates suggesting that global
flooding could cost the world 52 billion
dollars a year after 2050 given the city
status as a financial powerhouse for the
country the effects of climate change
could be even more disastrous for the
country than expected do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for
new videos every day
in big trouble
climate change is expected to flood
countless coastal regions and wreak
havoc in many other ways welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten cities
that will be under water sooner than you
think
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
cities that are expected to incur the
greatest amount of damage from rising
sea levels and more intense storms in
the next few years and decades even
Jericho’s government was forced to find
an unusual rate of transportation number
10 New York USA over half the platforms
are flooded and service has been
suspended on all train many
climatologist predict the six-foot
floods could be a common occurrence by
the end of the century but before then
storms the hit the Big Apple are
expected to keep getting worse a wake-up
call came in 2012 with hurricane sandy
which flooded 88 thousand buildings and
killed over 40 people in the area you’re
talking probably thousands of about two
thousand three thousand feet of track
that is completely submerged New York is
doing a lot of planning to prevent these
disasters most notably being set to
begin construction on the big U in 2017
the big barrier system will form a
perimeter around the lower half of
Manhattan which is at the highest risk
of flooding number nine Abidjan Ivory
Coast in a primarily agricultural
country that’s being ravaged by drought
many denizens of the Ivory Coast are
finding refuge in the capital city while
the city does offer more economic
opportunities it as well as other cities
along the country’s coast is
unfortunately at great risk of flooding
adding to the risk of coastal flooding
is the ivory coast heavy rain season
which has spurred floods in the past the
large population of poor citizens who
live in improvised housing means the
flooding is even worse especially since
the country may not be able to afford
proper flood control systems number
eight Amsterdam the Netherlands about
two-thirds of the total land in the
is subject to flooding and among those
2/3 is the city of Amsterdam even before
the threat of sea level rise became
imminent Amsterdam was at a big risk it
sits right on the sea and has many
canals running through it on the bright
side the Dutch are frequently considered
the Masters of flood control and many of
the techniques they are implementing in
Amsterdam are being copied in New
Amsterdam also known as New York the
American city has already made plans to
copy several Dutch flood control
techniques while climate change is set
to affect all low-lying coastal cities
Amsterdam and other places in the
Netherlands will hopefully be somewhat
better prepared it’s a matter of
political will do you want to solve the
problem now and for the future number 7
Kolkata India as India continues to
modernize Kolkata lags slightly behind
the other Indian mega cities Kolkata
such a meager 5 feet above sea level and
it also has several rivers that run
through it it’s saving grace is that it
has a significant swath of wetlands near
the city that could divert a lot of
water in the event of a flood
unfortunately much of this wetland is
under development and could disappear at
the turn of the century the city boasted
650 wetlands but that number dropped to
27 as of 2016 the city will likely
experience intense floods that could
severely affect the poorer residents but
they could reduce this risk by embracing
the natural advantage of well-preserved
wetlands number 6
Miami USA Florida a flat swampy
Peninsula is one of the state’s most at
risk of flooding in the US the cities of
miami and miami beach already flood
regularly it simply takes a high tide or
a tropical storm in many parts of South
Florida experienced encroaching flood
waters the biggest loss from these
floods will likely be the valuable real
estate thanks and insurance companies
are expected to stop issuing mortgages
and policies for properties in the area
in the next few decades although
hundreds of millions of dollars have
been invested in the Miami and Miami
Beach areas it’s not likely to actually
prevent what is
all considered inevitable number five
Shanghai China some Shanghai residents
feel there is little hope if a tsunami
was to hit and are worried about recent
flooding in Beijing as the commercial
capital of China Shanghai is stealing a
lot of strain from its ever-growing
population putting the city in peril of
sinking due to its water use
historically much of the water used in
the city had come from depleting
aquifers beneath it this constant
drawing of water caused the city to sink
even after they noticed the problem and
took action in 1963 the city has
continued to sink a staggering 16 inches
since then on top of the sinking issue
Shanghai like other entries on this list
is a coastal city that sits on a river
and is flanked by a lake so it has
nowhere to run from encroaching flood
waters its status as China’s business
center makes its vulnerabilities even
more pressing number four Venice Italy
being one of the longest inhabited
cities on earth is no easy feat
especially when rising tides constantly
threaten its very existence Venice was
an obvious choice for this list since
it’s already frequently underwater but
their seasonal intermittent floods are
expected to become much worse as the
global sea level rises since Venice has
been dealing with flooding for so long
they have a couple of tricks up their
very wet sleeves the most notable is the
most flood gates which when completed
will block the Venetian Lagoon off from
the Adriatic Sea some local residents
believe that stopping the tides from
coming into Venice will change the
lagoons ecosystem and will turn Venice
into a stagnant home number three Mumbai
India though the catastrophic flood that
overwhelmed Mumbai in 2005 was a wake-up
call the city unfortunately did little
to address its perilous situation in a
decade that followed climate scientists
have said that the likelihood of similar
events could double by 2080 and that
catastrophic events will probably happen
in Mumbai even sooner than that as an
island city Mumbai is subject to the
full brunt of rising tides and the
typhoons spun up by increasingly extreme
weather
number two New Orleans USA one of the
problems is that the system is designed
to keep the water out but there was no
provision really for managing the water
once it got inside the city after the
devastation of Hurricane Katrina which
flooded 80% of the city New Orleans
still remains at high risk situated on
the intersection of a lake a river and
the Gulf of Mexico and with much of its
land below sea level
it’s unsurprising that this city is
slated to have more problems with
flooding in the future while Katrina
gave them the alarm they needed to boost
the city’s flood control infrastructure
it still may not be enough to weather a
super storm that may shock the Gulf
Coast given enough time before we unveil
our number one pick here are some
honorable mention
[Music]
the story’s being caused by a
meteorological phenomenon called the
pineapple Express which scented
atmospheric river of rain across the
Pacific from Hawaii towards Northern
California number 1 Guangzhou China
water level now is that miny
but an hour ago it was almost at the
chancel of my fridge was under the water
one of China’s larger coastal cities
this is one of multiple metropolis on
the South China Sea
in fact severe risk of flooding similar
to cities like James Young Guangzhou is
at risk for several reasons an urban
population boom land subsidence and of
course climate change of all the cities
on this list it stands to take the
biggest financial hit from flooding with
estimates suggesting that global
flooding could cost the world 52 billion
dollars a year after 2050 given the city
status as a financial powerhouse for the
country the effects of climate change
could be even more disastrous for the
country than expected do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for
new videos every day
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