Blogs Jan 16, 2014 at 10:57 am

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Can you imagine all of the buildings of downtown rising straight out of the sound?
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IT'S COLD OUTSIDE GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX BY ALGORE!!!1!

Or...

Ok, so this so-called climate change is happening, but humans had nothing to do with it and it happens at regular intervals and we can't do anything about it anyway so I'm going to go fill up my Humvee with ultra premium.
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Looks like it would be good for density.
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And my property becomes exactly waterfront! So I'm okay with this.

(Pretty cool actually...)

Can we expect this to happen overnight sometime soon, or do I need to wait hundreds of years to enjoy beachfront island living?
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@4, thousands of years. Five thousands of them.
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@5
Damn... Guess I won't by that boat at lunch today.
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Anyone have a map showing what the region looked like 5,000 years ago?
In Pompeii I was amazed at how far inland its onetime seawall is today.
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@4 - There would also likely be some shifting of the land itself as it becomes inundated with sea water. Waves crashing at your doorstep are going to have some effects on your land values.
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@8, not to mention all the other land creation and destruction forces at work. In 5,000 years we're surely going to see some volcanic activity, earthquakes, landslides, bombs, accretions of garbage and pottery (or plastic, more likely), etc. Note that the existing landscape is mostly either sand or mud, which came from somewhere.

I'm just worried about the future fight over the stroller lane around Green Lake.
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@9
Will we still stroll in 5,000 years???
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@8,

There's also the issue of what's going to happen to the sewer systems of coastal cities even in the event of a relatively small sea level rise.
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Oh crap! KM Alexander's book The Stars Were Right (released last year), set in the distant future, includes a sunken watery Seattle AND a tunneler stuck under it. The guy is some kind of oracle.

http://www.amazon.com/Stars-Were-Right-K…
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@10: No.
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smart money says 50 years...
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Damn! My house is still four blocks from the new beach.

On the lower side, unfortunately.
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Chez Vel-DuRay is going to be waterfront property!!!
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@2:

Yeah, because according to the deniers, apparently only weather patterns that occur in the Northern Hemisphere count - the fact that Australia is practically withering away in a record-setting heat-wave right now doesn't prove anything about Climate Change donchaknow?
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oh no,we see that yopui girls are right.

tell us what to do to stop Climate Change.

go ahead.

we're listening.......
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@18: End government subsidies of fossil fuel exploration/extraction, increase funding of alternative energy research, subsidize electricity generated from renewable sources, budget for costs of geoengineering to combat warming and ocean acidification, establish stricter penalties for pollution and offer tax incentives for companies that reduce their emissions beyond what is required.
Did you get all that?
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Houseboat here I come!

Any chance Sophia Loren is available?
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@19 is correct.
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I'm always happy to live on a hill in Seattle because of the omnipresent tsunami danger.
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Yay, I get to survive!
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What about the money lost on property? That's a hell of a lot of valuable real estate that's under water. Will state absorb the cost? At what cost? The fed?
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There isn't going to be a Fed anymore, because the already-submerged state of Florida will have bankrupted them long beforehand. Florida's going to be gone before the end of this century, and since the entire state is filled to the brim with financial criminals with special expertise in real estate, the claims are going to exceed the value of everything in the other 49 states put together. So you won't care about what happens to your house, because Floridians will be living in it while you are pulling seaweed out of the ocean and drying it on the side of your raft to eat.
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@23 - Your house may be above water, but you're not accounting for the savage mobs of displaced lowlanders.
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And they'll have just finally finished the light rail to West Seattle by 7014 A.D. Shit.
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You want density? There's your density.
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Wow, 28 comments and no references to Earthsea? I mean, I don't want the ice caps to melt, but am I the only one who sees this map and dreams of wizard school, dragonlordship and becoming Archmage?

"The island of Beacon, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Puget Sound, is a land famous for wizards...."
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@29: As far as LeGuin novels go, I'm more worried about The Lathe of Heaven.

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