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The bad news: If we burn all of the planets fossil fuels, well melt all of the worlds land ice.
The good news: Youll be long gone so
party on!
Homo sapiens sapiens, the species with the ironic name, is not known for long-term thinking. So if the very real danger of Sandy-level storm surges coming every year or two in a half century along with Dust-Bowlification of a third of the Earths habitable and arable landmass isnt enough to stop us from using the atmosphere as an open sewer for carbon pollution, then the prospect we are going to melt all of the Earths land ice and raise sea levels more than 200 feet over the next few millennia or so aint gonna do the trick.
Still, heres what that would look like for the United States (via National Geographic):
On the bright side, think of all the great scuba diving there will be off of our new coastline!
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/16/3701137/200-feet-sea-level-rise/
I just want to figure out where the new shoreline will be so I can buy what will become beachfront? Goldmine!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)By the time Miami begins to flood, maybe somebody will decide it's time to do something.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)erronis
(15,460 posts)You know, the ones that built the "Navigation Canal" and the dikes in NoLA?
There are a lot of rich sons-of-bitches living the high life in ocean-front properties. Long Island, NJ shores, the Carolinas, Hawaii, Florida, etc. Are they all going to get their tans on beaches in the Himalayas or Adirondacks now? Hope their Cayman Island assets are well insured (well by their Wall Street friends who also put most of their hidden assets on the Caymans/etc.)
I hate to say anything bad about the Corps of Engineers since they are just answering orders, sometimes as best as they can. I do think that 10,000++ miles of coastline might be beyond their expertise, however.
randys1
(16,286 posts)I dont know when we get to say "told you so"
But if your house burns in one of California's now year round fire season fires, "I told you so"
snooper2
(30,151 posts)a nice fairly smooth coast like it should be
trumad
(41,692 posts)madinmaryland
(64,934 posts)liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)erronis
(15,460 posts)I don't care how much weaponry and supplies you can hoard (and I don't mean you personally), but the refugee situation will be larger than that currently in Europe. And the flood of refugees from Europe, Asia, Africa will be even larger.
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)woodsprite
(11,940 posts)Backwoodsrider
(764 posts)whew!
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)By the time the sea rises that much, the Cascade Subduction Zone will have let go and Portland will be seafront property:
When the next very big earthquake hits, the northwest edge of the continent, from California to Canada and the continental shelf to the Cascades, will drop by as much as six feet and rebound thirty to a hundred feet to the westlosing, within minutes, all the elevation and compression it has gained over centuries. Some of that shift will take place beneath the ocean, displacing a colossal quantity of seawater. (Watch what your fingertips do when you flatten your hand.) The water will surge upward into a huge hill, then promptly collapse. One side will rush west, toward Japan. The other side will rush east, in a seven-hundred-mile liquid wall that will reach the Northwest coast, on average, fifteen minutes after the earthquake begins. By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be unrecognizable. Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMAs Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
DrBulldog
(841 posts)I live at 200 feet elevation in one of Oregon's interior northwestern valleys. If absolutely all the ice melts including Greenland, all of the Willamette and Tualatin valleys will be completely flooded, and in particular for me, the water level will be 50 feet over my head. Portland will be under 200 feet of water. And even parts of the northeast (Umatilla, Boardman and Pendleton) will also be lost.
malthaussen
(17,235 posts)Damn, and I hate the beach. Worse yet, I don't own real property.
-- Mal
Atman
(31,464 posts)Florida is gone.
7962
(11,841 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)Your assuming that there will be life left in the ocean to look at.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112791199
raccoon
(31,131 posts)PotatoChip
(3,186 posts)Looks like the Palin family will need to begin setting aside their annual oil money payouts for their descendant's moving expenses.
Or a gigantic floating ark.
liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)Looks like the shore will gather much closer. There is a ridge about 1 mile from our house, that could very well be the new shore.
ut oh
(905 posts)I want to buy a house in the hills vs the flats (I live in the SF Bay Area).... I hopefully have 50 years left in me, so I might see some of this live....
LiberalArkie
(15,735 posts)But then they won't even take money for flood insurance from me. I am at 775 feet. They told me "Honey, when you flood there won't be anyone to call".
chknltl
(10,558 posts).... folks from Florida.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)That's my comment from here on out. For everything.
They should be illegal and put in prison. Oh, with handcuffs.. to protect them from themselves.
DrBulldog
(841 posts)So much of the dumb south and the corrupt east will be swept away!
Playinghardball
(11,665 posts)in the Sacramento, CA area... Elevation about 13-16 feet...
Flying Squirrel
(3,041 posts)csziggy
(34,139 posts)Right now the top of the hill is at 207 feet above sea level. Unfortunately I built my house just below the top of the hill so the floor level is right at 200 feet above sea level. Since the walls are concrete, they will make a great foundation for a dock!