By what year will Los Angeles, CA be under water due to climate chenge ???

Question

I was wondering cause i live in los angeles.

Answer 1

That depends which part of LA you're talking about. Let's take LAX as an average - it's 38 metres above sea level.

This century sea levels are expected to rise by 0.75 metres. This rate will accelerate for several centuries before slowing down again. It will be between 2 and 5,000 years before the airport is underwater and upwards of 10,000 years before all parts of LA below the 80 metre (260 feet) coutnour will be underwater (this is the max that sea levels will rise, thermal expansion excluded).

Low lying coastal areas could see increased flooding from the sea within perhaps 100 years, the rate of flooding will increase over the coming centuries until it's no longer flooding but permenant. By this time it will be slightly higher elevations that flood with ever increasing frequency and so on as sea levels continue to rise.

Whatever happens, it's not a dramatic change and residents will have plenty of time (decades) in which to evacuate.

Answer 2

Global warming is a very serious subject
yet I would like to make the following joke: homeowners of inland LA (San Fernando Valley, Burbank, Pasadena...) should keep their houses for decades because house values will skyrocket when houses become.... beachfront

Answer 3

I don't think so, but just to be on the safe side, you could move to the Himalayas

Answer 4

Not for five or six hundred years, if ever.

Answer 5

maybe but global warming is ending as you see someone is fixing the hole [god]

Answer 6

It can not be predicted now.

Answer 7

wont matter we will die from skin cancer before then