Major cities that will be submerged after global warming.?

Question

In case anyone wants to know, I've made a list of which major US cities (and some world cities) will be submerged after all of the polar ice caps completely melt. According to latest statistics, oceans will rise 200 feet. I based it on each cities elevation, so some buildings will survive (i.e. New York City).
- Boston: Gone
- New York City: Gone
- Washington DC: Gone
- Baltimore: Gone
- Atlanta: Stays!
- Jacksonville: Gone
- Tampa: Gone
- Orlando: Gone
- New Orleans: Gone
- Cincinnati: Stays!
- Detroit: Stays!
- Chicago: Stays!
- Kansas City: Stays!
- Dallas: Stays!
- Houston: Gone
- Phoenix: Stays!
- Denver: Stays!
- Salt Lake City: Stays!
- Las Vegas: Stays!
- San Diego: Gone
- Los Angeles: Partially Gone
- San Fransisco: Gone
- Seattle: Gone

Here are the some world cities (I couldn't find info for these cities: Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Sydney, Tokyo, and Cairo)

- Ottawa, Canada: Stays!
- Toronto, Canada: Stays!
- Vancouver, Canada: Gone
- Mexico City: Mexico: Stays!
- London: UK: Gone
- Madrid, Spain: Stays
- Berlin, Germany: Partially Gone
- Rome, Italy: Gone
- Athens, Greece: Stays!
- Vienna, Austria: Stays!
- Moscow, Russia: Partially Gone
- New Delhi, India: Stays!
- Beijing, China: Gone

Answer 1

If all the Antarctic ice and the Greenland Ice Sheet melted sea levels would rise by a little over 80 metres (260 feet) so any land below this level would be submerged.

There's no suggestion that all the ice will melt, for this to happen will take an inordinate length of time. The Antarctic interior contains ice 4000 metres thick and experiences average temperatures of 40 degrees C below.

Rising temperatures will not have any effect on the ice in the colder regions, even if temperatures rose in line with the worst case scenario (6.4C by 2100) the temperature across most of Antarctica would still be well below freezing.

What ius happening and will continue to do so is a gradual erosion from all sides of the ice cap due to warming seas and oceans coupled with some melting around the periphery due to rising temperatures.

The erosion of the ice cap through wave action and warmer seas is a very slow process. Air temperatures could rise significantly but the volume of the seas and oceans is so vast that it would take many millenia for a state of equilibrium to be reached.

The ice caps are melting but it's a slow process. This isn't to say it's not causing a problem because it is. Already some low lying islands have had to be evacuated and the rate of evacuation is increasing.

Currently sea levels are rising by an average of 3mm a year with local rises of up to 30mm. It's possible, although doubtful, that sea levels could rise by as much as 1000mm by the end of the century - the most likely rise is in the region of 200 to 400mm.

Answer 2

There will be no change in water levels, even if all ice melts. Try this experiment.
1. Fill a glass with half water/half ice.
2. Mark on the glass the water level.
3. Allow the ice to melt.
4. Note that the water level has not risen.

Water expands when it freezes, taking up more space than when in liquid form. Although some of the ice may be above water level, just like the tops of some of the ice cubes in your glass, when they melt, they take up less space. No water was displaced by their frozen form.

Even New Orleans will be OK, should all the water on the planet melt.

Answer 3

1) can i please see these "statistics"?
2) Even the IPCC has come out saying that the max sea level we will see in the next 100 years even if we double all of our greenhouse gas emissions will be 1 centimeter so i have no clue where u got 200 feet from.
3) If all the ice was to melt tomorrow, it would cause an ice age b/c all of that cold water would mess up the northern water currents making the whole world cooler, so you should add every city in the world above 20 and below that of the equator as they would be covered in snow.

Answer 4

Its just freemongering Check out this documenty on you tube its is done buy the head climitologist at MIT, and the head of the IPCC and the former co-founder of greenpeace. Its called the The great global warming swindal. It seperates fact from popular held myths of Global warming. its 8 parts or about a hour long

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXc9H5JSyow

Answer 5

Those are interesting facts, IF the polar ice caps melt. The question is, how long is that supposed to take? 500, or 1,000 years minimum. Print that information out and save it for your Great, great, great, great, great, great, great,great, great, grand children.

You belong out on the street corner with the rest of the guys that are holding up pieces of cardboard saying, "The End is Near."

Answer 6

Global warming gone wild! You are the perfect Al Gore acolyte!

I do hope you aren't a Dr. of anything meaningful -- tell me it's a Ph.D. in Cultural Relativism or something else useless...

Answer 7

For years I wanted to move to the beach. I think I have decided I will let the beach come to me.

Answer 8

I've made alist of people who will be proven to be total idiots when this global warming nonsense blows over and you're first!!

Answer 9

Washington D.C. would be gone? And you want to fight global warming?

Bring it on! I love global warming.

Answer 10

im sorry i couldent under stand all that writing because for sum reason i fell asleep try making your sumary shorter some how.(lol)