Global Warming caused Enormous city-sized Hole discovered in Antarctic Glacier
The very conservative UN IPCC reports had predicted 4 feet of sea level rise by the end of this century.
But if the Thwaite is dissolved before than, it could be 14 feet.
The elevation of Miami is 6.5 feet.
It is gone.
Half of New Orleans is below sea level and the other half can be as high as 20 feet.
Most of the city is gone without billions of dollars in dikes.
It isn’t the Arizona desert that needs a wall.
Even for cities higher than that, such as Houston, which is 50 feet above sea level downtown, the danger of storm surges grows as the sea level rises.
Hurricane Sandy in New York produced 14 foot storm surges, while the storm walls were only 12 feet high.
If the sea itself was 14 feet higher, the surges would be much higher, too.
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