What would happen if the oceans raised by 14 feet through climate change?

Question

What would happen if the oceans raised by 14 feet through climate change?

Answer 1

That wouldn't happen for 16,800 years at the current rate.  There are lots of "what if" questions that could be asked.  What would happen if it raises 1 inch in the next century like it has for the last millenia?  

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Answer 2

Not much because I dont care!!

Answer 3

what would happen.. the oceans would raise by 14 feet!..

what would happen to you? i don't know.. u'd get get a bit wet maybe

Answer 4

nothing because the water would not rise 14 feet under any scerio you could come up with.  The 14 feet is SciFi stuff.  Do the math sometime.  Don't forget to subtract the rise of the land masses as ice melts!

Answer 5

People would relocate.

http://www.stuffintheair.com/ClimateChan...

or get wet.

Answer 6

Amazing simply amazing the dribble some people put out and pretend its fact. A rise of 14ft in sea levels will most definitely not push the sea floor down. The earth as a whole is pretty much incompressible. Rising land masses as ice melts has will not lower sea levels but may raise them even further where that rise is below the waterline.  

Global sea levels have been up to 86m above present in the distant past, so a rise of a mere 14ft, just over 3metres is nothing really. Melting Greenland's ice sheet alone will do that. So if at the start of GW rise at a best case scenario is 48cm per 100 years, it will take 1000's of years to reach 14ft (3.5m)? mmmm wonder which school that one learnt maths at.

14ft is enough to cause massive grief to millions. It will not be so much of a problem for the wealthy nations, they will put in levies and other defences, so many those simply are not options.

And one definite is that a 14 ft rise in sea levels will bring the beach front about 100m closer to my place. I'm hoping for a 20m rise so I then go sailing from my then waterfront home.

Answer 7

sea level flood map;

http://flood.firetree.net/

we would loose bangladesh, florida, nederlands and east anglia for a start.

Answer 8

Lions would lie down with lambs, the Yankees and Red Sox fans would love each other, and h**l would freeze over.

      Even if all ice on earth melted, sea level wouldn't rise 14 feet. No environmental impact model created after 1980 predicts that kind of rise.  

Answer 9

London would flood, many other cities too.

Answer 10

It probably will (but not because of us), but over 10,000 years. So I am guessing people will adapt as we always do.

Answer 11

Many seaside resorts would be overflowed..

Answer 12

I imagine we will have another ice age, meteor impact or major volcanic eruption before the water gets that high, and give us something else to worry about.

Answer 13

That would be a problem. Several areas, such as Florida, New Orleans, and San Fransisco would be affected. Hawaii would be underwater, hurricanes would be much stronger, and Baja California(A state in California) would be half the original size. These citizens would eventually have no choice but to flee to the mountains. On the other side of the globe, Almost all of Easter Island would be gone, New Zealand and many Pacific Islands would be facing major adjustments, and Japan would be a little island. Wildlife in Madagascar would be looking for refuge because the beaches would be gone. The Mediterranean Sea would have increased size 4 fold. Italy would literally be gone. England would be facing another Ice Age. Fortunately, Africa, the Rockies, the Middle East, Kentucky, and Greenland would all be okay. Most other areas wouldn't be completely underwater, but would be recommended to stay away, such as Panama and Canada.

Answer 14

The sea is predicted to rise by 48cm in the next century. At this rate it would take a few thousand years to rise 14ft. Who can possibly say what the world will be like then.

Nothing for us to worry about

Answer 15

My drive time to the beach whould be much shorter

Answer 16

this video talks mostly about that

and shows some interesting graphs

http://ecowellness.multiply.com/video/it...

some more relevant text

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

and some maps f New York

with projections on rising sea levels

http://www.climateatlas.org/nycslr.html

some maps of the world about rising sea levels

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/glo...

IF THERE WERE DRASTIC RISES IN SEA LEVELS

What could happen is the collapse of governments and public violence.A lot of  major cities will be flooded .Causing unimaginable displacements of large populations .The majority of humanity lives low on the waters edge.

There are no solutions to large groups of people on the move.There is no food or water to sustain them and in many places there is nowhere to go, that is not already occupied ,

For example in Bangladesh ;if Millions tried to invade another place,higher up, with already millions of people living there ,this would result in Chaos and  violence.

From

http://byderule.multiply.com/journal/ite...

But until now sea level rises have been very slow ,no more than a few millimeters per year .

However off the coast of the Algarve, there are roman villas on the sea bottom, one mile from the shore.

And the locals say that the sea is eating their village.

the 17th hole of the Dona Philipa golf course has fallen into the sea.

They take it seriously in the Netherlands ,and they are raising the dikes (No ,not with high heels)

It is said the rising waters will now go faster ,and the satellite maps indicate that.

Answer 17

well for one thing the oceans are not going to rise, even if  some of the ice caps did melt, which they are not it would be the same has putting an ice cube in a glass of water, when the ice melts the water in the glass will not rise

The author of this "research article" is Christopher Monckton, otherwise known as Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

The warming The warming effects of carbon dioxide, Lord Monckton claims, have been exaggerated, distorted and made up altogether. One example of the outrageous fraud the UN body has committed is the elimination from its temperature graphs of the "medieval warm period", which, he claims, was "real, global and up to 3C warmer than now". He runs two graphs side by side, one of which shows the temperature record over the past 1,000 years as rendered by the UN panel, and the other purporting to show real temperatures over the same period.

By contrast the planet is currently much cooler than climate scientists predicted. In 1988, for example, the world's most celebrated climatologist,(liar) James Hansen of Nasa, "told the US Congress that temperature would rise 0.3C by the end of the century (it rose 0.1C), and that sea level would rise several feet  it did rise one bit

Answer 18

At about a mm per year increase since the end of the Ice Age, I wouldn't be too concerned about this.

Answer 19

The additional pressure on the seabed would cause it to sink by the same amount, and sea levels would return to normal.

Answer 20

will have to abandon my sumer house next to the sea

Answer 21

It would surely cut down on the population.

Not to mention new beach front property.