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So the global warming got me thinking [Politics/Religion]

 
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Re: So the global warming got me thinking [Politics/Religion]
« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2008, 07:42:20 PM »

As far as staying dry,  Thumbs Up

Down the list of your worries though {see SoCM's post above}. Those people will have to go somewhere and there are a lot of them.


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Re: So the global warming got me thinking [Politics/Religion]
« Reply #16 on: January 28, 2008, 07:47:37 AM »

life after man was quite the interesting show also
The question that came into my mind with this show was, where are the 6 billion bodies, something wiped out all of humanity but left all the animals? I kept trying to read a rapture like scenario, but that doesn't work either, an alleged rapture takes only the believers.

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Those people will have to go somewhere and there are a lot of them.

I watched (again) the history channel show that you were referring to earlier, and it touched on SOCM's point of the ice caps melting faster that previously estimated. If both ice caps melt it would add, I think the scientist said, 40 feet to the oceans levels, which in the US would wipe out most of Florida and your coastal cities would be devastated, Manhattan, the Gulf Coast. Worldwide it would displace (they estimate) maybe 250 million people, Bangladesh would be covered, London would be under water, major cities in China. Hurricane Katrina displaced something like 100,000 people, imagine if it reached 1 billion.

If the current picture of the antarctic ice cap compared to the picture 20 years ago doesn't scare you, nothing will.
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Re: So the global warming got me thinking [Politics/Religion]
« Reply #17 on: January 28, 2008, 07:53:02 AM »

Here's an interesting map that shows the diaspora, how people had relocated a year and longer after Katrina.

One big destructive storm is a bit different situation from permanently flooded population center, in the sense that one can return and rebuild their homes. 

Still, one can imagine a situation where after the storm moves on, there is no real estate to return to.

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Re: So the global warming got me thinking [Politics/Religion]
« Reply #18 on: January 28, 2008, 08:12:49 AM »


If the current picture of the antarctic ice cap compared to the picture 20 years ago doesn't scare you, nothing will.

IIRC, and I could be wrong, but most models predicting end of the century sea levels (less than a meter higher than present) are based entirely on thermal effects--warmer global temperatures causing a warmer sea to expand--and don't take into account an increase in sea volume due to the melting of stored water (e.g., ice in poles, Greenland).

I think the reason is they simply lacked the data to accurately predict how much melting would correlate with a specified atmospheric temperature rise.

This accelerated melting that seems evident right now is providing some missing data, causing the geoscientists to go back to the blackboard and run some more calculations.  My sense is that in another couple of years, another consensus will have been settled upon, and the subsequent predictions and probabilities will be sound much more alarming than they do right now.

The head-in-the-sanders will have no place to hide.
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« Reply #20 on: January 28, 2008, 08:23:21 AM »

Imagine a diaspora like the one from New Orleans occurring from every major population center throughout the US coastline.

I don't know about moving to the mountains just yet, but I'd certainly recommend a bullish position on highland real estate.



[/serious] I just watched a show the other night that touched on this topic. At one point they showed where the water would reach for 1m to 10m rise in sea levels. By "they" I mean scientests who study such things.

This may be hyperbole but I'm not sure most folks can't begin to imagine the implications. It is an ominous scenario. [/serious]




Consulting the all-knowing almost accurate Google - seems I'm about 550ft. above sea level at my domicile.  Safe or no?




until everyone fleeing below overruns your property, kills you, and takes it for their own . then flees when it gets underwater
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Re: So the global warming got me thinking [Politics/Religion]
« Reply #21 on: January 28, 2008, 08:26:16 AM »

Isn't that the plot of Machete?
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