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sofa king Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 07:39 AM
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6. More maps.
You may get lucky and find your neck of the woods in this EPA publication (Adobe Reader required):

http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/UniqueKeyLookup/SHSU5C3J4E/$File/maps.pdf

I think these are direct links to the same maps:

http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterPublicationsSLRMaps.html

This is an awesome little tool, but its resolution isn't very good. Play around with the QUEST maps though and you'll see that you can map incremental rises in sea level:

http://www.discoverourearth.org/student/sea_level/sea_level1.html

I have a friend who is an ace cartographer and geologist, so naturally I tried to cash in on the upcoming disaster by asking him where the best new beachfront property is going to be. He told me not to bother, because as the sea levels rise they're going to be constantly churning up eroded soil and pooping it back ashore all along the coastline, turning most beaches into soupy, bacteria-infested mud (unless the pollution is bad enough to kill everything). In twenty years, he claims, nobody is going to want to go to the beaches that remain.
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