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NASA's Interactive Flood Maps

Posted by samzenpus on from the five-feet-high-and-rising dept.

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."

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  1. Death Valley by LasVeganLucy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Somehow Death Valley, California seems to fill up with water with a slight rise in sea level.

  2. Lex Luthor was on to something. by Brad1138 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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...

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  3. Re:Where's the Waterworld Option by pjbgravely · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What no negative? I wanted to see what it would look like with sea levels lower.

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  4. Re:Where's the Waterworld Option by jonadab · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Also, 1000 meters of ocean level rise wouldn't really be enough to give you a Waterworld scenario. It would be a global catastrophy, certainly, but there would still be quite a bit of dry land -- in large continuous strips, some which would extend for more than a quarter of the earth's circumference in length. Dry land would certainly not be so difficult to locate as to approach mythical status. A lot of Asia would still be above water (not just the Himalayas, either), plus a good portion of Africa, a sizable chunk of North America (just for example, Denver would still be more than half a kilometer above the new elevated ocean level), a long strip of South America running from Columbia all the way to Tiera Del Fuego, and quite a bit of Antarctica (yes, even with all the ice melted off), as well as various mountains and islands scatter around every geopolitical region in the world.

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