100 meters? what would be livable?

[thomas.berubeg]

So, if the water level rose 100 meters, what would the terrain in various parts of North America Be like

Using this map, where would the Fertile areas be? where would the forests and deserts spread? etc (imagine very little Human involvment)

Map:

It's as accurate as I could make it

thanks in advance

thomas

 

[Truronian]

The sea level can't rise 100m... there's not enough water.

 

[stormbind]

ahahhaha... are you a future historian looking into long term property development?

 

[Leonel]

I hear sources saying that the maximum amount the sea would rise if all the ice caps were to melt is around the 60-75 meter range so I don't know if 100 meters sounds realistic.

But where I live now would be way safe. I'm 153 meters above sea level.

 

[stormbind]

The sea level can't rise 100m... there's not enough water.

are you sure the sea floor can't rise?

 

[cFccFc]

ofc it can rise. But not 100 meters. At the moment, the sealevels are actually going down several places on the earth.

 

[Riffraff]

ofc it can rise. But not 100 meters. At the moment, the sealevels are actually going down several places on the earth.

The sealevels can go up/down locally?

 

[Truronian]

are you sure the sea floor can't rise?

Not everywhere.

ofc it can rise. But not 100 meters. At the moment, the sealevels are actually going down several places on the earth.

It's called the tide...

 

[thomas.berubeg]

alright...

I thought I'de read that the worst estimate was 100 meters? okay... i'll beleive you guys.

I'm doing this for a game in Forum games, and need to know where the players should be allowed to settle...

so, for game play, i'll say something stupid like "a comet crashed down in Antarctica, adding the extra few meters of water needed" (though come to think of it, that a comet that big would render the earth unlivable...)

 

[Cannae]

68.3 is what I had got, but before I got results of the sea level being somthing like 450 feet or 137 meters.

 

[TheLastOne36]

i can see parts of south america. By curiosity, do you have a map of the entire world?

Also i notice montreal is completely under water, so that means 2 million dead already? Lake ontario would also be under salt water now to.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

i based the map on a blank mpa of north america and these two maps:

Spoiler :

and

can someone please answer my question?

 

[emzie]

i can see parts of south america. By curiosity, do you have a map of the entire world?

Also i notice montreal is completely under water, so that means 2 million dead already? Lake ontario would also be under salt water now to.

I'm thinking 100m of water ain't happenin' all at once. Sea levels aren't going to rise faster than I can walk.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

but there would probably be die hards who would stay, convinced that northing would happen to them...

 

[emzie]

can someone please answer my question?

Well if global warming raised the seas this much, all our ideas of weather patterns would be totally different.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

in your opinion, would the area around the mississippi gulf and those islands in the middle of it be inhabitable by a preindustrial society, with the potiential to become industrialized? (eg, recovering civilization after it's disseaperance)

 

[Ecofarm]

We have the largest eco-restoration project in the world right here in my backyard, but its name is completely dishonest:

The Save the Everglades Project

You see, the everglades is the only place in the world to enjoy these three designations: international biosphere reserve 1976, a world heritage site 1979 and a wetland of international importance 1987.

The project is 7.8b dollars. (Yes, that is a b)

Problem
Sea level rises 1 meter, it's gone.

The project should be named "Learn from the Everglades Project". You see, we've destroyed 90% of our wetlands in the US and have recently learned how important they (for examples: as water filters and for biodiversity). So, we want to rebuild some of them. What better place to learn wetland ecology than the everglades. It bothers me, though, that the name is so absurd.

ps. Douglas and Carson are the best scientists the Everglades will ever see. I doubt there is time for another savant to meet the glades and it would not matter anyway - the place will be a bay soon enough. It will be the largest marine estuary in the world (20-100 years). Even if we could build walls to stop the surface water, the aquifers would salinate the system.

 

[TheLastOne36]

but there would probably be die hards who would stay, convinced that northing would happen to them...

Like in Katrina.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

exactly what i was thinking...

 

[emzie]

in your opinion, would the area around the mississippi gulf and those islands in the middle of it be inhabitable by a preindustrial society, with the potiential to become industrialized? (eg, recovering civilization after it's disseaperance)

Even if this flooding happened overnight, or even instantly, I don't believe that would destroy civilization.