Recent predictions of an increased vulnerability to coastal flooding in southern Vietnam due to rising sea levels are overstated, with populations in the country's Mekong Delta unlikely to be forced to relocate by 2050, some scholars say.
New methods of calculating land elevations above sea level show that by that date "the bottom part of the country will be underwater at high tide" a New York Times article on Oct. 29 says, quoting a report by New Jersey-based Climate Central.
