A cyclist on a flooded section of bike path in California on 3 January 2022 Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images
Flooding due to sea level rise has added an average of at least 23 minutes to the time people in the coastal US spend commuting over the course of a year. By 2060, even a modest amount of additional sea level rise could increase that delay ten-fold, amounting to billions of hours of wasted time for commuters.
“It’s here. It’s now. It’s a delay that is already occurring,” says Mathew Hauer at …
