-[Ellem Douglas] I'm Ellen Dougl I am a professor of hydrology at UMass Boston.

I've been looking at sea level r and climate change impacts on Bo for the last 15, 16 years.

We've known that it would be bad all along, but now we're becoming more and more certain of just how bad it's gonna be.

It's gone from computer projecti to actual observations.

We're seeing, we're seein the effects of climate change, and they're happening a lot fast even the climate models had proj That's the scary part.

Boston is one of the mos vulnerable cities on the planet.

The highest sea level rise that we thought would be possibl was 10.5 feet.

Now we understand that it's more like 15.6 feet of sea level rise by 2100, and so the worst cas scenario has increased by 50%.

If we were to have 15.5 feet of sea level rise, the Seaport would essentially be of abandoned buildings.

By 2200, it could be 55 feet.

The numbers just keep getting so it's not even comprehensible.

If a city has to then bail out or protect all of these residenc and all these businesses, then that's money that could have been spent on sc It could have been spent on better building and housing for people that can't afford it.

So this is the definition of environmental injustice.

Every time we come out with a re The numbers always seem to get w The first report that I was invo was the Union of Concerned Scien It was published in July of 2007 This report came in 2013, right after Superstorm Sandy devastated New York City, and this report was published in Shortly after that, the Boston Research Advisory Gro and then the first update came out in 2022.

So we have 15 years of reports t to the public that tell us the s That sea level rise is gonna be of Boston and that we need to be