Global Warming and Rising Sea Levels

[Jacob]

I look forward to having waterfront property 

How much of an increase do you need for that? 150m?

[crazy canuck]

I look forward to having waterfront property 

How much of an increase do you need for that? 150m?

[mongers]

Thirteen metres seems to be beach-front territory for me, but since I all but live 'in' a river, it'll get problematic for me a fair bit before that, assuming such scenarios see increased rainfall.

However thirteen metres is far more of a problem for London:
http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=51.5000,0.0524&zoom=10&m=13

Portsmouth and it's hinterland is in greater danger, 9 metres sees it all but gone, this map suggest about 250,00-300,000 would be displace in this area of my home county:

[Liep]

(Denmark is not sitting pretty).

What are you talking about? I'll be getting an ocean view and we'll get rid of Amager, win/win.

[DGuller]

My apartment is safe at up to 70 meters.  However, the lobby would be flooded at 9 meters, so I'll have to really stock up on food when it gets to 8.5 meter mark.

[Josephus]

As long as it doesn't happen for 30-40 more years, I'm, like, whatever.

[Razgovory]

I thought we already debunked the global cooling thing here before.  I guess Derspeiss wasn't here that day.

[DGuller]

I thought we already debunked the global cooling thing here before.  I guess Derspeiss wasn't here that day.

I don't think these people listen, to be honest.

[Phillip V]

If we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.

[Eddie Teach]

If the ice melts, we'll have enough water for fracking. 

p.s. didn't realize Phil was still a teenager

[Josquius]

Is the map just a simple 'paint all areas  blue that are below x sea level' dealy or does it take into account natural barriers?

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.

The cutting off of the north atlantic drift will be what sends you guys into refugee camps in the UK.

[derspiess]

I thought we already debunked the global cooling thing here before.  I guess Derspeiss wasn't here that day.

I'm sure you did, hat-boy.

[Razgovory]

I thought we already debunked the global cooling thing here before.  I guess Derspeiss wasn't here that day.

I'm sure you did, hat-boy.

It wasn't me.  Someone posted a graph of articles about global cooling and global warming.  Global cooling was never something that everyone was talking about.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Is the map just a simple 'paint all areas  blue that are below x sea level' dealy or does it take into account natural barriers?

The former.  I looked at a close-in of South Florida and it was just highlighting every lake, pond, and other low spot on the map.

[Razgovory]

I thought we already debunked the global cooling thing here before.  I guess Derspeiss wasn't here that day.

I don't think these people listen, to be honest.

Oh, I bet we could get him to answer differently if he was paid for a right answer.