ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the gendered dimensions of one of the major consequences of global warming which is sea level rise. It reviews the climate science associates with predictions of sea level rise, and examines its human impacts. Peoples' goal is to understand the times and places that gender matters when the oceans rise and the storms surge. Global warming increases ocean volume and leads to sea level rise primarily in two ways: by increasing ocean temperatures causing thermal expansion of sea water. The most direct impact of sea level rise is flooding. Floods from tropical storm surges are the most dangerous and costly of the flooding threats from sea level rise. The chapter explores the gendered impacts of storm surges and flooding associated with sea level rise. There is more scientific confidence about the likely increase in the intensity of tropical storms since intensity relates to ocean temperatures, which are warming.
