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When will your coastal town or property be submerged?

Sea level rise chart

Sea level rise chart

Curious about when your coastal town or property will go back to the sea?

“To establish a timeline, choose a location … and find out its elevation. You can then use the graph to determine if the area will be underwater at any particular date between 1990 and 2100.”

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This entry was posted on Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 3:40 pm by greenboy and is filed under Boiling the Planet. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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5 Responses to “When will your coastal town or property be submerged?”

  1. Swopa Says:
    November 30th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    This really isn’t useful unless it also projects where the *new* coastline will be, so we can invest in real estate accordingly…

  2. Athenawise Says:
    December 1st, 2009 at 10:40 am

    Indeed, greenboy. We don’t want our options to be underwater.

  3. Swopa Says:
    December 1st, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    Though at least they’d be able to give our 401(k)’s some company.

  4. Athenawise Says:
    December 2nd, 2009 at 7:13 am

    Ka-CHING!

  5. nicteis Says:
    December 5th, 2009 at 8:43 pm

    That chart may be obsolete. The latest issue of Nature notes a new study (http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/SCAR_ssg_ps/ACCE.htm) that predicts up to a 1.4 meter rise by 2100, due to the accelerating meltwater from the West Antarctica ice sheets. The acceleration is partly due to the healing of the ozone hole.