NASA's Interactive Flood Maps

First time accepted submitter jackandtoby writes "Whether you buy into global warming or not, you can have a go at being Charlton Heston and raise sea levels on a biblical scale thanks to NASA's online flood maps. Click away and cause your own Sim Flooding."

Comments

Re:Lex Luthor was on to something.

[girlintraining]

In Superman 1. I need to buy up all the real estate 20 miles inland and wait for Global warming to make me rich! Maybe I should set off some nukes at the north and south poles to help speed things up...

Forget that noise;
1. Buy large oil company.
2. Begin drilling wells off the coast of large city... at a 45 degree angle.
3. Frack baby, frack!
4. giant sinkhole swallows 20 miles of coastline.
5. PROFIT!

Where's the Waterworld Option

[ATestR]

This darn thing only allows for a 60M rise. I want to try out 1000M and set sail in a Trimaran.

Re:Death Valley

[Immerman]

Right, the only reason not to factor in complex human factors into what is otherwise a simple elevation based color-by-number script is to generate ad revenue. And obviously the fact that there's a few spots where humans have built massive infrastructure to hold back the sea means that a map showing what would naturally be underwater with various changes in sea level is completely pointless. Good thing you're here to call them on it.