Washington DC under water in 50-100 years

[lovuian]

Collapse Of Antarctic Ice Sheet Would Likely Put Washington, D.C. Largely Underwater

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205142132.htm

cienceDaily (Feb. 6, 2009) — University of Toronto and Oregon State University geophysicists have shown that should the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse and melt in a warming world – as many scientists are concerned it will – it is the coastlines of North America and of nations in the southern Indian Ocean that will face the greatest threats from rising sea levels.
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So where do you want the next Capitol of the shrunken America to be

I'm thinking Omaha Nebraska

:woohoo:
Name your favorite

[Teaser]

1. So will pennsylvania have a coastline?

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[AnnieBW]

2. Maybe I'll have beachfront property?

I'm up here in Laurel, MD. :D

[billyoc]

3. Detroit.

[Thickasabrick]

8. I like it

[JVS]

12. Yeah! Detroit!

[Kievan Rus]

4. And those who worship the laissez-faire....

could probably care less if DC, Frisco, Seattle and NYC go under water, so long as they can make boatloads of cash before it happens.

[Mari333]

5. Well,I think Buttzville NJ would be a fine place

to send the assholes...er.. I mean, politicians.

http://newjersey.hometownlocator.com/nj/warren/buttzville.cfm

[TahitiNut]

6. Wyoming. Revoke statehood and make it the new District of Columbia.

It's appallingly over-represented in the federal government as it is.

[arcadian]

7. Area from Lincoln Memorial to Washington Monument is all reclaimed land.

It's all a swamp. There are bald cypress trees on Capitol Hill.

[Baby Snooks]

9. Which explains so much...

And here we thought all the swamp trash was down South....

[baldguy]

10. Buffalo, the District of Columbia

Lots of empty space, ready to be occupied.

[Deja Q]

11. Not to sound like a corny 1960s sitcom, but when it's under water, will anything of value be lost?

:hide:

BTW: Has anybody disproven that pesky "ice melting in a glass of water" theory that shows relative displacement doesn't raise diddleysquat?

[baldguy]

14. Most of the Antarctic & Greenland ice sheets are on land.

What happens when you plop an ice cube in a glass that's full to the brim?

[Towlie]

13. Here's a site that let's you raise the sea level and see the result on a map.

http://flood.firetree.net/

[Dogmudgeon]

15. My BIGGER concern:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isostatic_rebound">Isostatic Rebound

The flooding will be slow, and it should be possible to dike the entire DC area like Holland did with the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuiderzee_Works">Zuiderzeewerken (probably the first "geoengineering" project).

But earthquakes will be unpredictable and hit fast. In addition, they will continue off-and-on for thousands of years.

I also think that the two-phase model of climate is probably at work -- global warming will continue, accelerate, then some feedback loop(s) will snap the entire atmosphere/sea system back into a glacial regime. The problem with THAT, is that a) we don't know for sure, and b) it is likely to be stretched out over 1000 years or more.

Hot or cold, when it comes to interfering with natural processes, we haven't just screwed the pooch, we've sodomized the entire kennel.

--d!