Obvious Study Report: Many People Living in Risky Coastal Regions

A study released today from the International Institute for Environment and Development in London finds that 10% of the world's population live in coastal regions that are at high risk of rising seas and storms caused by global warming, or let's just say weather. You can read a summary of the report at EarthTimes.org.

But you shouldn't need some study to state these facts. This is more like a ten minute exercise in deduction and mathematics. I'll demonstrate:

Eighty percent of the earth is made up of water, particularly oceans, while half of the world's population live in urban areas. Urban areas are often, if not usually, found on coastlines, because ports, which by definition are near the ocean, usually attract large populations. Weather, which causes storm surges, hurricanes, etc., generally has its most extreme conditions because of meteorological events that take place over an ocean. Thus, most of the disastrous meterological events that effect a human population, take place on coastal areas, and as such, those most at risk to come in contact with these storms are...take a guess...people living in large coastal cities, the percentage of which can be easily determined using a mathematical formula that compares inland versus coastal populations, and the sea level of those coastal populations.

To get the exact mathematical figures, I grant, should take at least a day for a single intelligent human being. It certainly does not require an institutional study. Besides which, none of this information goes toward solving the problem.