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armb ([personal profile] armb) wrote2006-03-24 05:57 pm

Sea level rises

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).

slightly to my surprise

[identity profile] groliffe.livejournal.com 2006-03-25 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
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.