As climate change accelerates, floating cities look like less of a pipe dream

Hong Kong

YOU might call it a Noah's Ark for an era of melting polar ice sheets.

An audacious plan to respond to climate change by building a city of floating islands in the South Pacific is moving forward, with the government of French Polynesia agreeing to consider hosting the islands in a tropical lagoon.

The project is being put forward by a California non-profit, the Seasteading Institute, which has raised about US$2.5 million from more than…