UH Report Finds Hawaii Needs To Prepare For More Frequent High-Tide Flooding … Eventually, tidal cycles won’t be enough to keep the ocean from our doors.
Hawaii has about 15 years to prepare before sea-level rise leads to a rapid increase in high-tide floods.
That’s what Philip Thompson, director of the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center, hopes residents take away from a recent report from UH Manoa and NASA. Thompson and researchers from across the country analyzed decades of sea level data from 89 harbors in the U.S., including six in Hawaii.
