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something like only 10 meters is necessary to depopulate large part of Florida (due to loss land and freshwater aquifers) and turn part of central California in
by stevenwoo 5y ago
something like only 10 meters is necessary to depopulate large part of Florida (due to loss land and freshwater aquifers) and turn part of central California into a salt marsh and start reducing the USA's most productive farmland.
- jazzyjackson 5y agowas always curious about how below sea level works there, how much sea rise does it take before death valley becomes the new dead sea?
- Jtsummers 5y agoThat is a flaw with this site, it seems to "fill in" Death Valley even with no change in sea level. The best way to read the map is to look at what new blue areas are connected to oceans, rivers, and seas. If they aren't, then it's unlikely they will be flooded as illustrated in the map at that new sea level. Death Valley, to go with that, is still detached from any oceans or rivers until almost a 600 m sea level rise.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoRight on, thanks for the answer.
- jjcon 5y agoGood to keep in mind that best estimates right now have sea level rising by less than 0.7 meters through 2100. 10 meters may happen some day but it will be a very slow process. https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/us-coastline-to-see-up-to-foot-of-sea-level-rise-by-2050 https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/us-coastline-to-see-up-to-...
- r00fus 5y agoEcological estimates have been shown to wildly conservative. Who ten years ago had in their ecologic prediction bingo card that we'd have rampant wildfires globally and 118 degree ground temps in the Arctic Circle by 2020?
- jjcon 5y agoIf you have better sources than the NOAA estimates then by all means provide them, all I see is an unsourced claim and an anecdote