Climate Central has this graphic predicting increases in average annual coastal flooding events in U.S. cities. It’s a little hard to read accurately, but what caught my eye is the increase from something like 20 now in my native Philadelphia to something like 75 in 2035. That is pretty big and pretty soon. I think we will manage to protect ourselves, either physically or through insurance, from changes of this magnitude that happen gradually. But it will cost money and resources that will then not be available to spend on other critical needs. So unless our income and wealth are growing faster than these impacts, we are going to be getting gradually poorer and poorer as we deal with these changes.

Source: Climate Central http://www.climatecentral.org/news/coastal-flooding-us-cities-18148