If the earth is getting warmer and with coast lines getting shorter, would it make more sense for the population to move higher up - like in the mountain areas and get away from the coastal areas? And would the rivers dry up or increase due to more flow from the melting artic ice?
2006-09-15 06:21:25 · 11 answers · asked by blueeyes 1 in Environment
There's no reason to move until the cost of coastal defence work outweighs the cost of relocation.
Global warming is also linked with changes in rainfall patterns. In some areas, rainfall is increasing, in others it is getting dryer, so whether the rivers would dry up depends in what area you are in.
2006-09-15 06:28:07 · answer #1 · answered by Tammi J 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The danger of global warming isn't from the sealevel rising, it is from the dramatic climatic changes it brings. As the planet warms, deserts grow larger and rainpatterns shift, which would likely make the American Dustbowl during the Great Depression look like a sandbox.
The rising of the oceans would likely be gradual enough that people would simply migrate to areas higher above sea level over the course of many years.
2006-09-15 06:30:04 · answer #2 · answered by dm_scorpio 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You'd better do it fast before the rich people buy up (or steal) all the good land.
The oceans are rising. Scientists announced this year that they are rising faster than predicted previously. Rising sea levels will drown out some of the best agricultural land in the world and lead to famines.
It's a complex science, so it is difficult to predict rivers drying up, however, desertification is spreading rapidly in many parts of the world.
2006-09-15 07:23:01 · answer #3 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None of that is going to happen, so no particular precautions are necessary. the only coastal people who gets flooded are those in such low aspects that they get seasonal flooding basically approximately in step with annum already. The mountains won't run out of positive water, in the event that they have it now, which many do no longer. Farm land won't dry up. Or a minimum of for each acre that does dry up yet another acre someplace else that was once dry gets extra rain. yet turning out to be seasons will exchange. they gets longer.
2016-11-07 09:39:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Global warming what makes u think that it is true??? A large part of the pollution is based on CO2 well go measure it ,it is a lie.There is another side u didnt account for and that is our good Green plants that absorbe CO2 and put out ox. If this is true there is no increas in CO2 and that means that there is no Global warming.
2006-09-15 09:38:50 · answer #5 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Global warming isn't overnight - it will take decades to measurable affect the coastlines (I think the seas are rising an inch a year?) the rivers would be the same ( that is dependent on rain/snowfall) for running.
2006-09-15 06:28:04 · answer #6 · answered by words_smith_4u 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, when the polar ice caps melt completely, people will just have to do like in the movie 'Water World' and live on the floating villages and stuff. That to me actually sounds pretty cool.
2006-09-15 06:30:21 · answer #7 · answered by Cyrus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would really be easier and better for our planet if we could just cut down on our CO and CO2 exhaust by using alternative energy sources. Unfortunately, there are so many idiots who think that global warming isn't real and that it has been dreamed up by paranoid conspiracy theorists.
2006-09-15 06:30:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, not the mountains, just a little more inland like the hill country.
2006-09-15 06:32:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
these processes are too slow to affect us... they will affect our children...
2006-09-15 06:27:40 · answer #10 · answered by Patricia Lidia 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋