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originally posted by: PublicOpinion
a reply to: butcherguy
And now imagine:
the first ice-free Arctic summer
... in 30 years
How does that fit into the equasion? Just curious.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: butcherguy
It is a guess.
Yours?
originally posted by: butcherguy
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
a reply to: butcherguy
And now imagine:
the first ice-free Arctic summer
... in 30 years
How does that fit into the equasion? Just curious.
I am not sure.
You tell me how much the ice free Arctic will raise the sea level.
Then we will wait for it to happen.
originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: Grimpachi
I think they forget that there's also a lot of land ice in the Arctic... like the Greenland Ice Sheet then all the land ice on countries that border the Arctic like Russia, the US (Alaska), Canada,Norway, Finland, Sweden and Iceland.
originally posted by: marg6043
My mother makes some delicious ropa vieja, in Puerto Rico is call carne vieja...
Now if we were to have another Ice age, that actually we are due to one soon, we will get connected and who knows Atlantis may rise from the ocean once again.
That is one of the biggest problems in modern times, we have too many people living in areas in the coast that were not mean to be lived at
Florida was under water for a long time, before the ocean retreated in the last ice age, historical data put Florida as the mass is today about 10,000 years ago.
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: Grimpachi
Florida is more of a build up of sediment than a land mass, the shape Florida have today was finally acquired about 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age.
So in my views Florida will be one of the first land mass in the US that will go steadily under water if the ocean rises.
South Florida has two big problems. The first is its remarkably flat topography. Half the area that surrounds Miami is less than five feet above sea level. Its highest natural elevation, a limestone ridge that runs from Palm Beach to just south of the city, averages a scant 12 feet. With just three feet of sea-level rise, more than a third of southern Florida will vanish; at six feet, more than half will be gone; if the seas rise 12 feet, South Florida will be little more than an isolated archipelago surrounded by abandoned buildings and crumbling overpasses. And the waters won’t just come in from the east – because the region is so flat, rising seas will come in nearly as fast from the west too, through the Everglades.
Even worse, South Florida sits above a vast and porous limestone plateau. “Imagine Swiss cheese, and you’ll have a pretty good idea what the rock under southern Florida looks like,” says Glenn Landers, a senior engineer at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This means water moves around easily – it seeps into yards at high tide, bubbles up on golf courses, flows through underground caverns, corrodes building foundations from below. “Conventional sea walls and barriers are not effective here,” says Robert Daoust, an ecologist at ARCADIS, a Dutch firm that specializes in engineering solutions to rising seas.