Monday, March 21, 2016

Projecting Planetary Changes

The website Flood Fitetree.net is interesting; it shows the projected land mass loss due to rising seas with the melting of the ice. Global ice is the most significant amount of fresh water at about 68.7 percent and is held in ice caps and glaciers on the planet, and this website gives the ability to show sea levels rising 1 to 60 meters. After looking at the world, it shows the probability that the most significant cities near or around the coast of the world will be underwater. The most land mass loss will likely happen along the Atlantic seaboard. Cities like London, Rome, New York, Bangkok, and Cairo, to name a few. The Pacific coast in Asia will be hit worse than the Pacific coast of The United States. In the U.S., the Mississippi delta will go quite a ways inland. The water temperature in the Gulf of Mexico should lower with the loss of Florida, and most of the Atlantic seaboard will also have a significant land loss. One noteworthy piece of information is that the Great Lakes region seems unaffected. The Great Lakes consist of Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. These Lakes are estimated to contain 21% of the Earth's surface water and 84% of the freshwater supply for North America. This description represents the effect of the ocean rising 60 meters, which is the Flood Firetree. Net's highest settings. The climatic changes are more complex than global warming. These changes resolve the predictability of weather patterns and cause more unusual weather than ever before, or at least since weather records have been taken. In short, the time for combating climate change has passed, and it is time the world learns to live with the coming changes.   

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