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A Guy
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A Guy asked in EnvironmentGlobal Warming · 10 years ago

If 6-9 billion people can somehow change climate,?

then we might ask: Does the Earth become more habitable if the ocean rises by one foot, or falls by a foot? Seems to me like a rise puts lots of fertile delta underwater, and endangers classically-idyllic south sea islands; where a fall gives more real estate to everyone with oceanfront property, and increases ski opportunities in mountains.

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  • 10 years ago
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    Right now, neither option is available. Sealevel is rising and the pace is accelerating. There's enough excess CO2 in the air already to keep this up for centuries. Expect 1 foot rise by 2050, 3 feet or more by the end of the century.

    A big part of the potential problems from global warming stems from the fact that it is not a shift to a new condition with about the same stability we're used to. It means constant change at rates that make port facilities, for example, obsolete within 50 years of being built. In flat coastal areas, waterfront land won't remain waterfront land for the length of a standard mortgage.

  • 10 years ago

    I am environmental student and have been thinking about what ocean rising will do. In a way more water helps a lot of ocean creatures but that same water could harm low level land. We looked in class with each rise in ocean level how much coastal area will be under water. Our population is rising and there is high demand for land and buildings. The real question here is what will happen to all our wildlife parks and natural preserves if the ocean rises? They all endanger of being destroyed for housing if so much land will be under the ocean in the future.

  • 10 years ago

    That's an interesting question... I'd say with the more people we'd want the water level lower to give us more room to live, but then again we do need water...

  • 10 years ago

    Delusion

  • 10 years ago

    If you really think the sea level is rising, please feel free to answer my question, after all no one else has.

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201107...

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    6-9 million people can't change the climate, and if they could, it would be beneficial to make it warmer.

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