Will the possibility of rising sea levels in the next 50 years or so influence where you buy your next home?

Answer 1

Certainly it will and those who think there is nothing to worry about are very wrong. Already sea levels have risen sufficiently to threaten many small island communities and if they continue unchecked many large cities of the world will suffer serious periodic flooding like happened in New Orleans.
We need to act quickly because even those communities that are not affected by floods will find themselves inundated by millions of refugees from flooding. The economic and social consequences of failing to tackle global warming are huge.

Answer 2

Interesting question, I wonder if you had said 'flooding' rather than rising sea levels how different your responses would be because it would make the question a lot more immediate.

For example, In the UK, we experienced a lot of floods this summer. Many people who were affected are still not allowed to return to their homes while repairs are being done. Many people will find it difficult to gain household insurance if they live in an area that is known to flood.

The risk of flooding would influence my decision on where to buy a home.

Coastal Erosion already influenced where we bought our home.

I would have loved to live actually on the East Yorkshire Coast but it suffers greatly from Coastal Erosion with many homes lost and at risk of loss already. The Holderness coastline, East Yorkshire, ranks as one of the fastest eroding ones in the world. The cliffs are soft boulder clay and they are rapidly eroding. If you look at the second link (University of Hull) click on the map to see aerial photos with the lines drawn on to show where the land has eroded away.

The erosion is easy to see but these changes in this area are mainly due to the sinking of the land rather than the rising of the sea. I understand, that the North is rising because of the removal of the vast weight of ice which had depressed the north during the ice age.

People do live on flood plains. Personally, if I suspected an area had the possibility of rising sea levels, even in the next 50 years, it would stop me buying a home in that area.

Answer 3

Americans always run around with their heads on fire about worse-case scenario possibilities, but then they never back up their terror with actual action.

All the average Americans who believe in and know the basic principles of global warming will continue to build houses on the ocean, because there all idiots.

We could easily see a sea level rise of three feet within fifty years, which would subermerge large parts of the coastal flood plains on the Gulf Coast and the coasts of Georgia and the Carolinas.

Answer 4

If near the ocean, the land needs to be 8-10 feet above sea level, or in an area that can/is protected by levees. The big thing to be cautious of are very low lying floodplains that might become submerged permanently. Examples include parts of the Gulf coast and/or barrier islands.

Answer 5

The IPCC is the UN body that just got the Nobel prize with Al Gore.

Their report says, worst case in 50 years is sea level rises 3 feet.

WORST CASE

3 FEET


from the scientists everyone who cries doom love to cite.

Can we all calm down here.........unless you live on the beach now GW sea level rise will have no effect on you.

Answer 6

Nope. Most of the people who have to worry about that would be literally on a beach.

That's not the big deal. The big deal is that, if we do nothing the costs of global warming will be enormous, enough to do serious damage to the economy.

Where you live will make little difference about that.

Answer 7

Nope.

And nope.

Global warming on Mars my influence if I go there however.

Answer 8

Why not ask, how many of you can actually afford a beach front home?

Answer 9

well if the raise they will flood the earth so else they make homes underwater its inpossabile

Answer 10

nope might push me back about six inches when i surf cast though