Gobal Warming - Is Your City Gona Be Underwater?

Question

Hey

im planning to move to L.A.

but i heard theres going to be some sort of tsunami there in a couple of years

is this true

also theres loads of cities that are going to be flooded because of gobal warming, does anyone have a picture of a before and after shot of the world if climate change does happend

thanks

Answer 1

no dude,al gore is pulling your pud ! http://globalwarmingheartland.org

Answer 2

Heck according to Al Gore, Denver will even be under water.  I am moving to Tibet...

Answer 3

I don't think you have anything to worry about unless you are planning on staying here for a thousand years.

Answer 4

My city is substantially more likely to be underwater if it doesn't stop raining soon than because the oceans are rising.  We're sort of landlocked here in the midwest.  No tsunamis would ever get here, either.

Answer 5

We all will be living under water soon, all 6 billions humans. So I wouldn’t worry about that. Just start growing gills. :)

Answer 6

A Tsunami is not caused by global warming.  It is caused by earthquakes or landslides.

Why is this in this catagory?

Answer 7

no your answer to my question 'Does blue cancel appeitie' really does NOT do me any good what-so-ever!

Answer 8

Tsunamis are always a possibility and there is also a possibility that GW will cause a slight increase in tsunamis but I wouldn't worry about it.

I would be concerned about flooding however: Flooding of low lying areas is already happening across the globe.

Speak easy says not to worry because most of LA is more than 20' (3m) a.s.l.

Unfortunately, models of GW where the Greenland ice cap melts has sea levels rising by 10m (33') and significant melt of Antarctica shows an 80m (240') rise...

Johnnie B: People who have gone to university and spent decades studying the problem would not have overlooked such a simple issue. Sea level rise from melting ice comes from ice that is currently on land, not floating in the sea - in your model, after the ice has melted, pour another glass of water into the first glass - that's what happens!

davem keeps repeating the myth of the world stopped warming in 1998 - not true at all; the average temperature of the globe has increased every decade for the past century. Of course, out of 10 years, one year has to be the warmest and one the coolest. For 1989-1998, 1998 was the warmest. For 1998-2007, 1998 and 2007 were equally warm. The important point is that 1998-2007 was much warmer, on average, than 1989-1998 - you cannot take one year to disprove a trend!

And sorry, dave, I don't mean to pick on you but your science is just wrong - there has been a rise in sea levels already!

People in Funafti in Tuvalu and on Kiribati island have lost their homes, 1/3 of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge marshland on Chesapeake Bay has disappeared since 1938, 1/2 of this due to rising sea levels and Carteret Island is now depopulated, creating the first 'climate change refugees' recognised by UNHCR...

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrend... is a great source for the rise in sea levels as measured in the US: It's not much at the moment but the trend (since 1930) is definitely up - sea levels have risen everywhere!

The best picture/map is if you have Google Earth - see http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/... for animations of rising sea levels around the world - at 30m, half of LA was under water!

Answer 9

yea if it is true then i will becuase i live near Miami

Answer 10

no! we are fine here

Answer 11

You'll fit right in...don't worry about it.  The government has it covered.

Answer 12

Dallas Texas is about 500 feet above sea level----- I don't plan on moving anywhere in the near or distant future. If you are really worried move to Denver Colorado (official elevation 5280 feet).

Answer 13

no

Answer 14

Nah- I'll just be waterfront.

there is this cool thing on google earth so you can see what will be underwater oneday-

LINK:

google.earth.com

Answer 15

A tsunami there is a couple of years? Who told you that? Tsunamis are caused by underwater earthquakes NOT global warming, so they cannot be predicted. Whether or not a tsunami hits California's coastline is a couple of years will depend on whether or not there is a large earthquake offshore, and not whether or not the earth warms.

Answer 16

A tsunami could happen tomorrow, or it might not happen in your lifetime.  You plan for it, and then you put it out of mind.

Check out the site below if you want to see the risk areas.

Answer 17

Global Warming is a lie propagated by the Left and Gore. Try this test;;;

  Fill a glass with ice and then fill the rest with watter. Now watch it ,how much runs out . None as ice occupies more space than the melted water. It is all a Lie by the Left...

Answer 18

Tsunamis are caused by earthquakes not global warming. And nobody can predict earth quakes, so no way anybody can tell you there will be a tsunami in 2 years.

Sea levels would have to go up MUCH more than the scientists are expecting to flood Los Angeles. But New Orleans is another story. That city is practically under water now!

Answer 19

So far there has been no rise in sea levels anywhere.  And the earth stopped warming in 1998...ten years ago.  We now seem to be entering a global cooling era.  Don't worry about what the alarmists and doomsayers tell ya...go to L.A. and have a great time!  This man-made global warming thing is nothing but a big lie.  It never was, and never will be real.

Answer 20

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA! i just laughed so hard.  Polar bears, had a disease.  thats why some died.  NOT global warming.  and cities will not go underwater.  so stop listening to the assosiated press please.  my aunt's father was the HEAD of it in washington DC and they paid him millions to sway facts to meet liberal standards.  stop worrying about global warming, okay?   oh, and cities arent flooding because of global warming.  800 scientists met at a convention and PROVED the whole theory to be false.  please get your facts straight.

Answer 21

im not sure if this is true about L.A but i do know that if we dont cut out the use of gas emmisions and fossil fuels our environment will get worse, it is or ready shown that ice caps have melted because of our overuse in gas emissions and fossil fuels

Answer 22

Los Angeles faces little threat from ocean level rising.  Most of it is well above 20 feet over sea level and it's not likely the oceans can rise even that far even if all the polar ice melts.

The real problem here is that humans built all these cities in ignorance.  The last ice age ended about 18,000 years ago and the oceans have risen hundreds of feet since then.  There was dry land between England and France, now under plenty of water.

So, humans built all these coastal cities without realizing that the oceans were rising over time due to natural warming.  Woops.

Answer 23

well a tsunami is just a thought but anywhere on the coast there can be a tsunami global warming doesnt have much to do with it  dont worry about flooding it will be very slow and you will have plenty of time when it happens climate change is happening type it in under images

Answer 24

well the way things are going with the health of the planet, there could be a tsunami in a few decaded, not years tho, but everyone should do what they can so that that doesnt happen!!!