UM-Bot Posted January 20, 2017 #1 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Scientists have warned that global sea levels could continue to rise over the coming decades. http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/302928/sea-levels-could-rise-by-30ft-study-warns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorybebe Posted January 20, 2017 #2 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Good gravy! That would eliminate a huge amount of the current shore lines. I wonder how much land would be lost. When Florida is already sinking, how much would be out of water? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted January 20, 2017 #3 Share Posted January 20, 2017 easy to sort out...if true which I doubt.... all we need to do is dig big holes in the seabed.... loads of them, that'll lower any rises Or just chuck lots of sponges in the sea... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorybebe Posted January 20, 2017 #4 Share Posted January 20, 2017 13 minutes ago, seeder said: easy to sort out...if true which I doubt.... all we need to do is dig big holes in the seabed.... loads of them, that'll lower any rises Or just chuck lots of sponges in the sea... Lol you are a nut 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted January 20, 2017 #5 Share Posted January 20, 2017 23 minutes ago, seeder said: easy to sort out...if true which I doubt.... all we need to do is dig big holes in the seabed.... loads of them, that'll lower any rises Or just chuck lots of sponges in the sea... It would be interesting to see what could happen if we dredged the sea floor on a massive scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted January 20, 2017 #6 Share Posted January 20, 2017 1 minute ago, Myles said: It would be interesting to see what could happen if we dredged the sea floor on a massive scale. well the parts of the floor that are sand and mud....are already waterlogged, so digging holes wouldn't make a difference... If I understood your question that is? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoFish Posted January 20, 2017 #7 Share Posted January 20, 2017 7 minutes ago, Myles said: It would be interesting to see what could happen if we dredged the sea floor on a massive scale. We'd collect a lot of our garbage back. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoFish Posted January 20, 2017 #8 Share Posted January 20, 2017 I would think that with rising sea levels there would be more rain. Leading to flooding in certain areas. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted January 20, 2017 #9 Share Posted January 20, 2017 22 minutes ago, seeder said: well the parts of the floor that are sand and mud....are already waterlogged, so digging holes wouldn't make a difference... If I understood your question that is? I wasn't really thinking about it affecting sea levels. More about giant hills of sea floor on land. How long would it take for land plants to grow in it? How stable would it be? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorybebe Posted January 20, 2017 #10 Share Posted January 20, 2017 It would be incredibly rich in nutrients for plants. Think of all the broken down fish waste along with decomposed marine life. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted January 20, 2017 #11 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Would the salt content outweigh the nutrients though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Timelord Posted January 20, 2017 #12 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Plant acacia trees (as clay seed pellets) over as much of the worlds deserts (including all of Australia) as possible, the increased humidity and rainfall would turn the desert belt into an enormous tropical paradise. give it a few decades of heavy rain to fill the giant desert aquifers which would likely have a dramatic effect on sea level, plus all the water in the saturated ground/animals/plants/lakes/rivers etc...we'd have a highly oxygenated, well watered, well fed and biodiverse planet in a couple of generations. Not to mention more land to play with thanks to the lowered sea levels. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplybill Posted January 20, 2017 #13 Share Posted January 20, 2017 3 minutes ago, Lone Timelord said: Plant acacia trees (as clay seed pellets) over as much of the worlds deserts (including all of Australia) as possible, the increased humidity and rainfall would turn the desert belt into an enormous tropical paradise. give it a few decades of heavy rain to fill the giant desert aquifers which would likely have a dramatic effect on sea level, plus all the water in the saturated ground/animals/plants/lakes/rivers etc...we'd have a highly oxygenated, well watered, well fed and biodiverse planet in a couple of generations. Not to mention more land to play with thanks to the lowered sea levels. And build desalination plants along coastlines, pump water by pipelines to desert regions, and return the filtered minerals back into the oceans to maintain the balance in freshwater ice melt. If Israel can do it, it can be done here in the U.S. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Timelord Posted January 20, 2017 #14 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Simplybill, Desalination is extremely costly and wasteful not to mention environmentally damaging when the hyper saline wastewater is dumped back into the ocean, long term solution would be to reforest as much of the high ground with desert trees as possible. the cool shaded ground soaks up the extra rainfall and humidity brought by the trees, allowing the water table to rise, once the rising water table hits natural faults it forces water to the surface in the form of springs/stream and rivers. Real world terraforming using a well understood natural system (the water cycle). 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplybill Posted January 20, 2017 #15 Share Posted January 20, 2017 12 minutes ago, Lone Timelord said: Simplybill, Desalination is extremely costly and wasteful not to mention environmentally damaging when the hyper saline wastewater is dumped back into the ocean, long term solution would be to reforest as much of the high ground with desert trees as possible. the cool shaded ground soaks up the extra rainfall and humidity brought by the trees, allowing the water table to rise, once the rising water table hits natural faults it forces water to the surface in the form of springs/stream and rivers. Real world terraforming using a well understood natural system (the water cycle). Lone Timelord: Thank you, I'll read up on it some more. Israel has made progress on desalination, though I don't know how they process the waste (or byproduct?). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoFish Posted January 21, 2017 #16 Share Posted January 21, 2017 I get beach front property. Maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DieChecker Posted January 21, 2017 #17 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Quote "We are rapidly approaching ocean conditions that haven't been really seen on this planet for over 120,000 years," said paleoclimatologist Jeremy Hoffman from the Science Museum of Virginia. "That's a very relevant thing as we head into the next couple decades, and we start making policy decisions to turn this train around." Yet every single species alive today survived that time, and not enough time has gone by to actually have allowed much evolution. So animals today probably would do just as well as they did then. The real problem will be that the change probably will not be nearly over as long a time period, so animals that live in micro environments will not have those environments move fast enough to avoid trouble. I still think it would not be too hard to turn things around. It is only politics and economics that prevent us fixing it right now. I kind of like the artificial CO2 collection trees idea myself. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brlesq1 Posted January 22, 2017 #18 Share Posted January 22, 2017 There goes Miami. And New Orleans... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DieChecker Posted January 22, 2017 #19 Share Posted January 22, 2017 (edited) On 1/20/2017 at 4:59 PM, XenoFish said: I get beach front property. Maybe. Isn't that 20 to 30 meters though? 20 to 30 feet wouldn't be quite as bad. Though Florida would still almost be gone. Edited January 22, 2017 by DieChecker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abigail Evans Posted January 22, 2017 #20 Share Posted January 22, 2017 On 20.01.2017 at 6:16 PM, XenoFish said: I would think that with rising sea levels there would be more rain. Leading to flooding in certain areas. Yes, it could be, and we would have the second Flood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoFish Posted January 22, 2017 #21 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Just now, Abigail Evans said: Yes, it could be, and we would have the second Flood No we wouldn't. We'd have localized flooding. Not some water world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abigail Evans Posted January 22, 2017 #22 Share Posted January 22, 2017 13 minutes ago, XenoFish said: No we wouldn't. We'd have localized flooding. Not some water world. Ok, I would have localized Flood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+and-then Posted January 22, 2017 #23 Share Posted January 22, 2017 18 hours ago, brlesq1 said: There goes Miami. And New Orleans... The Crescent city is so low that a fish fart causes it to flood My community is, on average, 40 feet above sea level. The beach would just come closer to us. Unfortunately, the hot, muggy summer weather would probably become constant and insufferable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docyabut2 Posted January 24, 2017 #24 Share Posted January 24, 2017 (edited) Quote It bound to happen with the Antarctica melting just like, 12,000 bc when the sea levels rose 200 ft gradually. Edited January 25, 2017 by docyabut2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RefealN Posted January 27, 2017 #25 Share Posted January 27, 2017 What's pragmatic steps should take to cope with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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