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In reply to the discussion: Florida might be fucked. These storms will get worse.. and then WORSE. And more frequent. [View all]markodochartaigh
(4,852 posts)by the time that sea level rises 10 feet, there will be less than a billion people on the planet. Sure, Miami, New Orleans, the North China Plain, Mumbai, Shanghai, Lagos, there are many places that sea level rise is already a problem.
But less than 5% of the excess energy from anthropogenic climate change goes into melting ice. And ice is an incredible heat sink, due to the latent heat of fusion of water.
By the time that enough energy has been released to raise sea level 3 meters, even with ice shelf destabilization, so much energy will have been released into the atmosphere and ocean that serial cereal harvest failures will have killed the majority of humanity. Not to mention lethal wet bulb temperatures, which are not just a problem for the tropics.