The global melt. How high will the water rise?

Question

Does anyone have any idea how far the water will move inland when the seas rise the 20 feet Al Gore predicts? I'd like to buy some land today that will be ocean front when the big melt happens. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Al Gore is not a scientist. He has no more credibility in predicting the oceans will rise 20 feet than I do. His whole Global warming charade has been exposed by NASA anyway. Solar flares are causing the light rise in temperatures that are happening on every planet in our solar system. Quit listening to Al Gore...thats my idea.

Answer 2

It won't take a high rise in water level to change many landscapes. Just a few inches will create many changes, some noticable and some not so. For instance there will be more levees and their mainatainence. There will be a decrease in the salinity of oceans while ground water near oceans will become more saline. Oceans have a tremendous effect on climate. Melting ice will cool parts of some oceans while global warming may warm other parts a few degrees which could wreke havock in our weather patterns and fish populations. These changes won't happen overnight. They will happen over time and we will adapt as best we can. But the change between today and 50 years from today will be very significant as the resources I list show. By the way, many changes are being documented already.

For those who say in the face of mounting OBJECTIVE (Not paid for by Exxon or other fossil fuel producers) scientific evidence ratified by reconized scientists the world over, that global warming is being increased by human use of carbon based fuels, is a myth - all I can say is, if you are that deep into denial, then nothing I and likely anybody, can say will change your mind. However, if you deny that our air and water are polluted to levels toxic to most life forms including humans, then you are well beyond mere denial and moving into the realm of mental disorders. Fortunately, as people sift through the information and make sense of the science, you are becoming part of a shrinking. ignorant minority.

P.S. Al Gore has done a lot more research on Global Warming than anyone here so think before you bash. It only makes you look like a crank.

Answer 3

See the source to make a map of the flooding for any sea level rise between 1 and 14 meters. 20 feet is about 7 meters, which is the default setting for the interactive maps.

By the way, does Al Gore really say the sea will go up 20 feet? Because the scientists are saying one foot.

Answer 4

the average mean sea levels have risen about 8 inches over that last 100 years and even if it rises more than that over the next 100, this is not the level of a storm surge or even tides. Eventually, when most of Antarctica and Greenland has melted in the centuries after that, average sea levels will be more than a hundred feet higher than today. By that time, a lot of Florida will be under water. Meantime, the stronger storms and unusual tracks is what you need to worry about, let alone the heat waves you'll get during the summers.

Answer 5

According to some "experts" on ice sea level was 300 feet lower than it is now about 25,000 years ago. Since the time of the last igeage maximum at least enough water was released for the ocean to rise 300 feet. There is about 10% of maximum ice remaining now so it would be 30 feet if that is in fact what happens.

Answer 6

Stop listening to the doomsday people! The majority of experts (of which Al Gore is NOT one) believe the current cycle of warming is a naturally occurring event caused by the sun and by the earth's natural "wobbling" on it's axis. While the current warming trend may cause a rise in ocean levels, such rise would be measured in inches (or maybe up to a couple feet). It would occur over decades and then begin receding as the warming cycle reverts back to a cooling cycle.

Thes cycles have been going on long before humans appeared in the climatctic picture and will continue long after we are gone. Our role is like the rest of the creatures on the planet. Learn to adapt!

BTW: The percentage of man-made CO2 emitted into the atmosphere annually is about 3% of the total. The remaining 97% is naturally occurring and can not be stopped, slowed or reversed by anything we do. If you are going to "live green" do it because it's just better not to waste. But don't do it thinking you are helping the onset of global warming.

Answer 7

See these USGS animations for the effect of sea-level rise due to global warming.

http://cegis.usgs.gov/sea_level_rise.html

By the way, 20 feet (6 meters) is a best-case scenario. If all of Antarctica melts, it would be a rise of 80 meters, or 260 feet.

Answer 8

the ice sheet of Antarctica is over 6,000 ft thick. if Antarctica is 1/3 of one percent of the area of all the oceans combined then melting all that ice will raise the oceans 20 feet. I'd buy above the 30 foot mark if I were you. Personally, my property is 174 feet above sea level. BTW forget about anything in Florida.

Answer 9

if all the glaciers melted, the ocean level could rise by 80 meters. that's slightly more than 24 feet.

while i accept global warming as something that is real and believe we should be concerned about resulting climate changes (because i am not in gasoline-induced denial!!), i doubt you'll live long enough for all the glaciers to melt since they cover a land area of 15million square kilometers.

Answer 10

If you want ocean front property -- well too bad. Get WATER front property like on a lake somewhere, that would be better so you don't have to worry about this. I don't know about New York but I know within about 30-50 years New Orleans will be gone. Hope this helped. Good Luck on your research.