Report: Sea levels to increase by 20 ft does that mean......

Please register or login

Welcome to ScubaBoard, the world's largest scuba diving community. Registration is not required to read the forums, but we encourage you to join. Joining has its benefits and enables you to participate in the discussions.

Benefits of registering include

  • Ability to post and comment on topics and discussions.
  • A Free photo gallery to share your dive photos with the world.
  • You can make this box go away

Joining is quick and easy. Log in or Register now!

ScubaSarus

Guest
Messages
2,529
Reaction score
9
Location
Connecticut
# of dives
200 - 499
we'll get a 40 ft dive at Stonington, CT? I can't wait. Just gotta live 100 more years though.

By Deborah Zabarenko

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Miami would be a memory, Bangkok a soggy shadow of its former self and the Maldive Islands would vanish if melting polar ice keeps fueling a faster-than-expected rise in sea levels, scientists reported on Thursday.

In an issue of the journal Science focusing on global warming, climate scientist Jonathan Overpeck of the University of Arizona reported that if global trends continue, Earth could ultimately see sea levels 20 feet higher than they are now.

By the end of this century, Earth would be at least 4 degrees F (2.3 degrees C) warmer than now, or about as hot as it was nearly 130,000 years ago.
 
ROTFLMAO


Must be related to that dreaded 7 degree ocean heat wave.

Actually, that would be pretty cool. I could gear up on the back deck and by the time I got down the stairs I would probably be wet. Of course, having to gear up to go to Dunkin Dunuts for a cup of coffee might get to be a pain in the ***...

Just checked... 65 feet above sea level. Damn!!! Can someone turn the heat up a bit? Hey Bruce Schweggler, can you give a brother a hand?

Hey, if the ocean rises 20 feet, does that mean that the "Big New England Hurricane" will go right over us?

Will Hathaway pond become a salt water dive? Should we rename the boat there "Son of Speigle Grove?"



PTN
 
You know

This global warming could be a good thing for us. It means more water. Maybe Long Island will disappear and we'll get nice ocean waves at Hammonassette state park. And just imagine diving down to visit LI.

If the producers of Batman ever want a new criminal, I would make a perfect villan who wants to sink Long Island so we could get better waves and ocean conditions in our sound.
 
By 2110 this house will be on beachfront property.

I rule.

---
Ken
 
"By 2110 this house will be on beachfront property.

I rule."

Yea That would be a good selling point. I'm informing the tax accessor to get an early start.
 
Just think of diving to see cities that were underwater. Miami would be an awesome dive!
 
Is it "apocalypse week" on the Discovery Channel or what....?

Next thing you know someone is going to post that story about the volcano in the Canary Islands.....and how when it collapses, the ensuing tidal wave will wipe out the entire US east coast....
 
so if we don't stop global warming, the little girl gets plowed by a train? :D
 
Fight global warming? Poor girl.

If it wasnt for global warming and a glacier receding we wouldn't have the deep coves at Ft Wetherill. The earth is and has been contiuously warming for centuries and isnt going to stop anytime soon. We may accelerate it a bit but no matter what the glaciers are going to melt and conitue melting. I dont want to get into increasing entropy but our earth has never been at steady state and only in the last 10,000 or plus years or so has it been able to support us humans. So whose to say its going to stay that way for ever. So let the globe warm. Now depleting the ozone is another matter and that can be a directly caused by us.
 

Back
Top Bottom