Sea level rises

[armb]

http://flood.firetree.net/ combines Google maps with elevation data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission to draw maps of raised sea levels. The default, of a seven metre rise (corresponding to Greenland's ice cover melting), puts my house on the "shoreline". Via http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004230.html.
And, while we're on the subject Arctic, Antarctic Melting May Raise Sea Levels Faster than Expected (via http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/03/polar_melting_m.html).

Comments

Yar boo sucks...

[timill]

We're at 10 metres here in Coveney...

and there are houses for sale.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks - someone on my flist was looking for something like this, hope you don't ming me copying it.

[demoneyes.livejournal.com]

Hm. Was that the same "sea level rises faster than expected" headline I saw which when you looked closely at the article meant 600 years instead of 1000 years?

[armb.livejournal.com]

It's talking about temperatures "by 2100". But even a 0.5m rise in sea level could make a big difference to, say, Bangladesh.

slightly to my surprise

[groliffe.livejournal.com]

we're OK even with a 14 metre rise - though we might want to buy a boat instead of the bikes, and the college cellar would have to have a flood sale...I didn't realise we were on such a high point.