The areas impacted by various amounts of increase in sea level. This seems to be based solely on the elevation and not on any defensive measures which may be taken. http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=43.3251,-101.6015&z=13&m=7
Interesting...fyi, you really need to zoom in to almost street level to appreciate the detail in it. I wish there was a time line though: knowing if it will take a year or a century for a 1m (or 14m!) change makes a difference. Thanks!
I believe the average increase in rise is about 3 mm/year in the recent past. That is not an equal impact as the oceans are fluid. Our coast is one which is expected to see a stronger impact sooner. When the next solar cycle picks up the levels may also increase accordingly.
i remember back in the 70s it was "a new ice age". there were all kinds of books about it, professors on donahue and merv griffin. Global cooling was all the rage. Then the whole craze died down - i imagine due to slowing book sales. Seems to be a similar pattern occurring with global warming. Now it is 'climate change'.
If you want to see the driving forces behind the "panic"....don't look at the causes......follow the money to the "solutions."
i hear Al Gore made a big investment in buying and setting up carbon credits while pushing his various environmental disaster theories. Suspicious. I also have friends in the investment game who have repeatedly told me over the last year to get into the carbon credit game asap because the 'big boys' (al gore?) were pushing them and they would soon be as common and as profitable as mutual funds, hedge funds, overpriced housing, etc were in the beginning. Well, we all know where those ended up - somebody made a fortune while everyone else got the shaft - preplanned setup most likely.
The rest of the story as we saw nearly the 1 meter increase this summer. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090910-sea-levels-rise.html Sea Levels Rose Two Feet This Summer in U.S. East Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News September 10, 2009 Sea levels rose as much as 2 feet (60 centimeters) higher than predicted this summer along the U.S. East Coast, surprising scientists who forecast such periodic fluctuations. The immediate cause of the unexpected rise has now been solved, U.S. officials say in a new report (hint: it wasn't global warming). But the underlying reason remains a mystery. Usually, predicting seasonal tides and sea levels is a pretty cut-and-dried process, governed by the known movements and gravitational influences of astronomical bodies like the moon, said Rich Edwing, deputy director for the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The report if anyone is interested: http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/publications/EastCoastSeaLevelAnomaly_2009.pdf
