These maps show what melting Antarctica will do to New York and cities across the U.S.

[eridani]

http://www.upworthy.com/these-maps-show-what-melting-antarctica-will-do-to-new-york-and-cities-across-the-us?c=upw1

Good news: The chances of your home becoming beachfront property in the next 80 years may have just gone up 200%! That's also the bad news.

A renowned team of climatologists just published a new study about sea level rise in the science journal Nature. By factoring in the frightening increase in the rate of melting ice from Antarctica and Greenland, they calculated a global sea level rise of more than six feet by the end of the century — more than twice as much as previously predicted.

In Seattle, for example, it won't just be the rain that makes it wet...

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[daleanime]

1. kick, kick, kick....

[SheilaT]

2. Makes me very happy that I live in New Mexico.

And all of "flyover country" likewise benefits.

[Warpy]

4. High ground would be great

if it didn't catch on fire every year.

Still, it beats the hell out of finally buying that beachfront McMansion on a storm track. If the hurricanes don't get you, the nor'easters will.

[sue4e3]

15. This might sound crazy, but about 10- 15 miles from me is the East point light house

as a teenager I would go down there(I lived even closer then) when a nor'easter would come in. Sept. -December is weaker , Feb.-April are magnificent storms. little to no lightning.When there was it would finger out over the water . It would light it up like fire works. The bay was dark and choppy with no reflection so it was a brilliant white on black. There was wind that could take your breath away. It came in wide corridors , it would just engulf someone. You couldn't hear anyone if they spoke. It was a world onto itself. We would joke that Gods wrath would come in off the bay. It was awe inspiring. My mother probably would have beat me senseless if she knew what I had been up to. Even now when a big one comes in there is little part of me that wants to go down there and feel everything. That's why giving up the ocean is so hard for so many. I will when the time comes

[hollysmom]

3. well, just as well I will be dead in 20 years,

I try and talk to people about this and they just go like - Oh, you are just to gullible. they will fix it before it happens. It i not going to happen tomorrow.
Ostriches with their heads in the sand, do not realize the inertia of people will have to be in deep dodo before they actually move.
I expect a lot of death and destruction and think this is indeed an extinction event that could be avoided but humans are just not smart enough.

[Delphinus]

7. I think

there are quite a few scientists that are saying we are LIVING in the Sixth Extinction - that should make folks sit up and take notice.

[hollysmom]

8. You would think

But everyone who doesn't seem to believe in this science appears to have faith science will save us. Drives me nuts. And what is worse, it isn't divided by political party, it is universal. Anything but have to drive or fly less.

[Cartoonist]

5. King tide

A regular occurrence here in Marin, California. People demand that "something" be done about it.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. ... by someone else, but without raising taxes, I assume. nt

[hollysmom]

9. Or asking anything of them.

Just some of that magic please

[Nihil]

10. I suppose that ...

... "F*** off and live somewhere more sensible" isn't in the list of acceptable answers either?

[OKIsItJustMe]

11. It isn’t particularly helpful either

People forget, sea level rise is only one concern here.

If the seas are no longer producing as much food… if land crops are difficult to bring to harvest… flooded coastal cities are a minor inconvenience.

[progressoid]

12. Eventually that will happen. Hundreds of millions of people displaced to previously sparsely

populated parts of the world.

Think people are testy about immigration and cultural migration now?

The world is gonna get fucked up in the not too distant future.

[sue4e3]

13. well if your like me I was born on the Jersey side of the Delaware Bay

Where I'm at we could withstand about a 10 meter rise and take a storm. I was raised to move when the water takes over. you don't rebuild you give it back to the ocean. which is a good thing thing since it's not asking anyones permission. I will say That moving out of the state is easier said then done . I'll do what needs to be done but it's a hell of alot more than snapping fingers and just doing it

[Nihil]

14. And *that* is the point that so many of the whiners on the coast(*) ignore ...

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> you don't rebuild you give it back to the ocean

i.e., don't keep throwing money at the problem, learn from it instead.



(*) + flood plains + barrier islands + ...