for anyone who lives on the coast. if you have coastal properties, they are subject to damage. it also means one of the big impacts of this rising sea levels means that when you have storms, the storm surge or the amount of water that wind will blow in and cause damage becomes a lot higher. a lot more water comes in. superstorm sandy was, you know, sort of case in point, an example of that. why is this happening? is there anything that we can do to reverse it? there s nothing we can do to reverse it. at this point the consensus is very, very clear. the warming is being caused by fossil fuel pollution, carbon dioxide emissions that is burning of coal, burning of oil, burning of natural gas. that carbon pollution, those greenhouse gases are the primary