Global Warming and Rising Sea Levels

[Jacob]

Interactive google map showing the impact of rising sea levels: http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=49.1682,-122.9123&z=6&m=4

It's on Vancouver (my house is fine unitl 50m+ ), but you can move it anywhere you want (Denmark is not sitting pretty).

[Viking]

Not a problem

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/sweden-the-land-of-the-rising-coastline-8373787.html

The uplift of almost a centimetre a year, one of the highest rates in the world, is part of a geological rebound that has been taking place since the end of the Ice Age removed a vast ice sheet from regions around the Arctic Circle. "It's a bit like a foam rubber mattress. It takes a while to return to normal after you get up," said Martin Vermeer, a professor of geodesy at Aalto University in Finland. Finland gains 2.7 square miles a year as the land rises.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world, many nations are worried by the costs should sea levels rise in line with scenarios modelled by UN climate-change scientists – in 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted increases of between 18cm and 59cm during this century, after 17cm in the last one. As a result, representatives of almost 200 governments are currently meeting in Doha, Qatar, to try to revive a UN-led effort to slow climate change, which is also projected to cause more floods, droughts, heatwaves and powerful storms.

[garbon]

I'm underwater after 13m

[11B4V]

+60 and still dry. So the gun nut is gooooooooooood.. 

[Neil]

Now this is interesting.  What a wonderful world that is to come.

[ulmont]

Where I live now in Atlanta, good at +60.

Where I grew up in Camilla, good until about +40.

Where I used to have a place in New Orleans...about +3 floods.

[Barrister]

Aren't almost all of the flooding estimates wildly pessimistic?

Aren't most estimates of sea level rise somewhat less than 1-2m?  This will still be catestrohpic in certain areas, but  nothing like the massive and widespread flooding this tool suggests.

[The Brain]

His name is Jacob.

[derspiess]

  Back in the 70s when everyone was worried about global cooling, Jake would've been sharing scary glaciation maps.

[Barrister]

  Back in the 70s when everyone was worried about global cooling, Jake would've been sharing scary glaciation maps.

But this isn't the 70s, and nobody is worried about global cooling...

[viper37]

The area around Laval begins to have trouble at 7m, Charlemagne will be flooded.  9m, the eastern part of Montreal's island is flooded.

At 2m, I lose the highway near my city.  At 60m, my step-sister and my step brother are underwater but I'm still ok, my house becomes beachfront property and probably increase twofold in value.  Who says there was nothing positive to global warming??

[Grey Fox]

At 30m, my house becomes beach front property At 40m I'm underwater.


I don't care about global warming, the earth wasnt build for us anyway.

[derspiess]

  Back in the 70s when everyone was worried about global cooling, Jake would've been sharing scary glaciation maps.

But this isn't the 70s, and nobody is worried about global cooling...

[MadImmortalMan]

Most of the world would be long drowned before the water ever gets all the way up here. I'd have bigger problems by then I think.

[The Brain]

Most of the world would be long drowned before the water ever gets all the way up here. I'd have bigger problems by then I think.

The world has almost completely drowned and you worry about YOUR problems?