200 Feet Or More Of Sea Level Rise: Here’s What That Looks Like

[liberal N proud]

The bad news: If we burn all of the planet’s fossil fuels, we’ll melt all of the world’s land ice.

The good news: You’ll be long gone so … party on!

Homo sapiens sapiens, the species with the ironic name, is not known for long-term thinking. So if the very real danger of Sandy-level storm surges coming every year or two in a half century — along with Dust-Bowlification of a third of the Earth’s habitable and arable landmass — isn’t enough to stop us from using the atmosphere as an open sewer for carbon pollution, then the prospect we are going to melt all of the Earth’s land ice and raise sea levels more than 200 feet over the next few millennia or so ain’t gonna do the trick.

Still, here’s what that would look like for the United States (via National Geographic):


On the bright side, think of all the great scuba diving there will be off of our new coastline!

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/16/3701137/200-feet-sea-level-rise/

I just want to figure out where the new shoreline will be so I can buy what will become beachfront? Goldmine!

[Hoyt]

1. Yep 201 feet above sea level is where it's at. Or invest in dike building.

By the time Miami begins to flood, maybe somebody will decide it's time to do something.

[daleanime]

14. It's already began.....

[erronis]

28. Just need to spend more money with our fine "Army Corps of Engineers"

You know, the ones that built the "Navigation Canal" and the dikes in NoLA?

There are a lot of rich sons-of-bitches living the high life in ocean-front properties. Long Island, NJ shores, the Carolinas, Hawaii, Florida, etc. Are they all going to get their tans on beaches in the Himalayas or Adirondacks now? Hope their Cayman Island assets are well insured (well by their Wall Street friends who also put most of their hidden assets on the Caymans/etc.)

I hate to say anything bad about the Corps of Engineers since they are just answering orders, sometimes as best as they can. I do think that 10,000++ miles of coastline might be beyond their expertise, however.

[randys1]

2. I just want a ringside seat to watch deniers suffer the consequences.

I dont know when we get to say "told you so"

But if your house burns in one of California's now year round fire season fires, "I told you so"

[snooper2]

3. Well at least that zit is off the southern east coast of the country

a nice fairly smooth coast like it should be

[trumad]

4. Yeah that means I'm dead!

[madinmaryland]

5. No more Florida Man. nt

[liberal N proud]

12. He may have to beome aquaman

http://2static3.fjcdn.com/comments/Florida+man+will+always+be+my+favorite+superhero+_c294b5592639f5fe4e5361618463ded4.jpg

[hobbit709]

6. I'm at about 625 ft. I'll be high and dry but the coast will be an hour less driving away.

[erronis]

26. Yes, and you'll have about 2 million people wanting to crash your pad.

I don't care how much weaponry and supplies you can hoard (and I don't mean you personally), but the refugee situation will be larger than that currently in Europe. And the flood of refugees from Europe, Asia, Africa will be even larger.

[Travis_0004]

7. Are you saying now is the time to invest in Lake Front property in Pine Bluff?

[liberal N proud]

11. Nevr too soon - Right?

[woodsprite]

8. Looks like I won't have to go to the seashore in retirement. It'll be coming to my door. n/t

[Backwoodsrider]

9. dont see Oregon on there guess Im good!

whew!

[nichomachus]

17. Oregon's a special case

By the time the sea rises that much, the Cascade Subduction Zone will have let go and Portland will be seafront property:

When the next very big earthquake hits, the northwest edge of the continent, from California to Canada and the continental shelf to the Cascades, will drop by as much as six feet and rebound thirty to a hundred feet to the west—losing, within minutes, all the elevation and compression it has gained over centuries. Some of that shift will take place beneath the ocean, displacing a colossal quantity of seawater. (Watch what your fingertips do when you flatten your hand.) The water will surge upward into a huge hill, then promptly collapse. One side will rush west, toward Japan. The other side will rush east, in a seven-hundred-mile liquid wall that will reach the Northwest coast, on average, fifteen minutes after the earthquake begins. By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be unrecognizable. Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

[DrBulldog]

27. Actually, this Oregonian had already checked the state out.

I live at 200 feet elevation in one of Oregon's interior northwestern valleys. If absolutely all the ice melts including Greenland, all of the Willamette and Tualatin valleys will be completely flooded, and in particular for me, the water level will be 50 feet over my head. Portland will be under 200 feet of water. And even parts of the northeast (Umatilla, Boardman and Pendleton) will also be lost.

[malthaussen]

10. I'll live right on the beach

Damn, and I hate the beach. Worse yet, I don't own real property.

-- Mal

[Atman]

13. Look at the bright side...

Florida is gone.

[7962]

22. But so is NYC and all the other solid Dem voting blocks!

[pangaia]

25. And the sushi bars. :>((( fuck republicans.

[daleanime]

15. Scuba diving?

Your assuming that there will be life left in the ocean to look at.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/112791199

[raccoon]

16. I wonder what Canada will look like? Especially Newfoundland. nt

[PotatoChip]

18. Here is a map showing what the rest of the US would look like.

Looks like the Palin family will need to begin setting aside their annual oil money payouts for their descendant's moving expenses.
Or a gigantic floating ark.

[liberal N proud]

32. I currently live 3 miles south of Lake Erie

Looks like the shore will gather much closer. There is a ridge about 1 mile from our house, that could very well be the new shore.

[ut oh]

19. This is why

I want to buy a house in the hills vs the flats (I live in the SF Bay Area).... I hopefully have 50 years left in me, so I might see some of this live....

[LiberalArkie]

20. If it would go a little higher, I could beach front property outside Little Rock.

But then they won't even take money for flood insurance from me. I am at 775 feet. They told me "Honey, when you flood there won't be anyone to call".

[chknltl]

21. Well that'll stop Stephanie Miller from pickin' on....

.... folks from Florida.

[pangaia]

23. Fuck republicans.

That's my comment from here on out. For everything.
They should be illegal and put in prison. Oh, with handcuffs.. to protect them from themselves.

[DrBulldog]

24. But look on the bright side . . .

So much of the dumb south and the corrupt east will be swept away!

[Playinghardball]

29. Blub blub blub where I currently live..

in the Sacramento, CA area... Elevation about 13-16 feet...

[Flying Squirrel]

30. And now we know why Rupert Murdoch bought National Geographic.

[csziggy]

31. My property will be an off shore sand bar!

Right now the top of the hill is at 207 feet above sea level. Unfortunately I built my house just below the top of the hill so the floor level is right at 200 feet above sea level. Since the walls are concrete, they will make a great foundation for a dock!