If the Arctic Ice and Antarctic Ice melt, how far inland will the ocean advance in the United States?

Question

If the ocean advances not only at the beach areas, but also advances up rivers, due to the rivers being the lowest lying features, I would like to know what areas along beaches and rivers will be inundated.
What would be the highest water level expected above current sea level at beaches in Florida or Texas? If the ocean advances up rivers, what would be he water level in the great plains if any at all?

Answer 1

If everything melts, the sea level rises by about 60 feet. There won't be any beaches in Florida or Texas or anywhere else. The good news is that it won't all melt at once.

Answer 2

The Arctic has a lot of the freshwater int he world, especially Greenland, which has about 1% of all the worlds water in its glaciers.

So, that's a lot, but not enough to flood the country. The ocean probably averages about 10,000 or 12,000 feet in depth, so even if all the ice totally melts and you got a 1% rise in the sea, that would be about 100 feet. All the ice couldnt melt in just a few years, though. It would take a couple centuries at least.

Some areas of the USA, like Florida, have some pretty wide strips of land that are not 100 feet up. But most parts of the coast, you dont have to go too far inland to be up 100 feet. It is worse in some other countries, like say, the Maldives, or Bangladesh. They have really large parts of the country that are less than 100 feet up.

Answer 3

i think of this quote from the OP rather plenty solutions the question: "yet while all people had asked an quite scientist, they might have found out that a solid year for sea ice interior the Antarctic not at all nullifies the precipitous drop in Arctic sea-ice stages year after year — or the mounds of alternative information indicating international warming is unquestionably going on." the key is which you won't be in a position to debunk (or tutor) a manner with a single records element. the challenge is that once you're working with a scale of eons, any timeframe it quite is significant to human beings may be considered a single records element. in spite of the undeniable fact that, I observed a ballot released right this moment that suggested an increasing kind of Democrats AND Republicans now have faith in international warming (see source).

Answer 4

If we're talking a sea level rise of 200 feet, the answer depends entirely on where you are. Oregon and Washington would be relatively unaffected. Low-lying states like Louisiana and Florida would be completely inundated.

Answer 5

Someone on CBS news said 23 feet rise in sealevel, which is the same everywhere on the globe.

Answer 6

I think that the water would be the last thing to worry about as it would cause a domino effect with other catastrophic events. Thank you HUMMER!