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On a related note, if all of the frozen ice goes melty melty, Paris will be underwater. It’s at 35m, and sea levels could rise by 70m if Earth goes full thaw.
by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
On a related note, if all of the frozen ice goes melty melty, Paris will be underwater. It’s at 35m, and sea levels could rise by 70m if Earth goes full thaw.
- onion2k 6y agoThis is quite a good tool to explore what would happen at different sea level rises - http://flood.firetree.net/ http://flood.firetree.net/ - it maxes out at 60m, but even there it's a very different world.
- posix_me_less 6y agoDon't show that to climate action skeptic. They will think, the world looks almost the same even for 60m. Each country is affected differently, most by a small percentage of land, some not at all. People will adapt.
- wnkrshm 6y agoMost of the population of Earth lives close to the water though. Be it rivers or coasts.
- reducesuffering 6y agoWhere can one find the data for the predictions of Pacific coast sea level rise on various timelines?
- est31 6y agoIt can absolutely happen, yes, but note that this is nothing that anyone alive today will witness (barring progress in life extension technology). Sea level rise is projected to be around 2.4 meters by 2100 in the worst scenarios. Maybe it'll be a bit higher than that but not by much. And by the time the oceans do rise by that level, maybe we'll have reclaimed most of the continental shelves anyways by building dams, so we'll have a firm grip on the technology needed to build dams at scale. There are far graver consequences of climate change that affect humans immediately, this decade, this year, this century.