I'm listening to one of the latest episodes of Exploration with amazing Michio Kaku (astrophysicist), wonderful as usual. On the topic of global warming and sea level rise, I actually wrote a short article on my site and did the math as well as I can see it. If all of my variables are at least close to accurate, we would merely see a rise in sea level of roughly 250 feet.
While that is enough to wipe out coastal communities like New York, Venice, Boston, Rio, London, and many other massive population centers around the world, the majority of continents would simply lose some of their total area, but humanity would survive. Waterworld is simply not possible even if all of the polar ice caps melted and it never rained again (Solarbabies).
That's not even enough to have the Gulf Coast move halfway to San Antonio. If it took global warming 10,000 years to get this far, it must be humanity's fault. Nothing changed until we said we changed it. What a logical fallacy. And we'll likely nuke ourselves long before that...
Bring on December 21st! It's the new Y2k! From collapse comes rebirth. We need a Lion Day event.
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