Bay of LA (Los Angeles, Compton, West Hollywood: 2015, home, buy)

[MichalJacko]

https://la.curbed.com/platform/amp/2014/7/2/10079794/heres-the-bay-of-la-map-from-a-future-drowned-los-angeles

It'll be at least a few centuries before Los Angeles is consumed by rising sea levels, but in the mean time, there's a map to show us that post-apocalyptic lay of the land (and sea). The map, made by a campus planner at the University of Washington named Jeffrey Linn, anticipates what LA could look like in a future where all the world's ice sheets have disappeared. Explains Linn on his Spatialities site, "The USGS has estimated that the total rise would be about 265′. I'm taking artistic license with anything over 225 or so feet, and just calling it 'all the world's ice sheets'." That severe a rise would submerge pretty much the whole LA basin and parts of the OC, according to the maps, creating what Linn has called the Bay of LA. South LA would then have Baldwin Island and of course the Strait Outta Compton, while East LA would have Playa de East Los and Boyle Point. Mid-Wilshire and West Hollywood would be home to new watery landmarks like Miracle Mire, Wilshore, and, yes, Wet Ho. (Okay, that last nickname needs work.) Fun, yet more than a little spooky. For a more zoomed-in view of the future flood wreckage, there's this Google-Earth-based map, and for a front-row seat, there are these renderings of Venice underwater.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

It irks me when there is anti scientific mumbo jumbo coming from the "Green" side that is just as bad as the anti scientific mumbo jumbo coming from the so called "denier" side.

Let's do some real science .... to cop a phrase from medical and first aid, I am scientifically trained and I can help you.

Lesson 1, glacials and interglacials. People speak of "the Ice Age" as if it were a past event, never coming back. In reality, a few million years ago, we started an ice age - a period where continental glaciers (think Greenland and Antarctica) formed then spread over vast areas at the higher latitudes then eventually even well into the mid latitudes. An ice age consists of glacials and interglacials, imagine the ebb and flow of tides. We are currently in an interglacial. So technically, the so called "Ice Age" has not ended, it is ongoing. During an interglacial, the continental glaciers recede dramatically and sea level rises. This process continues until the end of a given interglacial.

Lesson 2, anthropogenic climate change. Human activities, ranging from emission of greenhouse gasses, to albedo modification, to irrigation, to human constructed systems and items which emit heat or cause heating via excitation of atoms and molecules of natural substances, add heat to the lower atmosphere and to the uppermost volume of the Earth's crust. This set of actions imparts stimuli onto Earth's climate and weather. Certain impacts ranging from soot, to chemical modifiers, to bulk temperature increase, are superimposed on the effects of the interglacial's innate melting and sea level rise.

Lesson 3. Sea level rise during the 21st Century. The superposition of the items noted in Lessons 1 and 2 is resulting in an overall rate of sea level rise. The rise is measurable but with some degree of difficulty. Actual realized sea level at a given location is a dynamic quantity since the oceans and their bays, estuaries, lagoons and main basins are not static and there is no global single absolute sea level. Further complicating things is how to mount or deploy measuring devices and sensors in a manner to know the actual spatial locations of the points constituting the sea surface at a given moment in time. Nonetheless, within some error band it is possible to discern the signal of sea level rise. At this time, the rate of rise is not dramatically different from the rise prior to the onset of significant human factors. It is higher but not for example, 1X higher. Many groups have used various computer models to attempt to predict future rise. There is no set method for these predictions and outcomes vary significantly depending on the assumptions being plugged into the models.

[CaliRestoration]

NASA just reported RECORD ice growth in the Arctic. So we may have to wait a little bit longer for the Water World fantasies to become realized.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by CaliRestoration

NASA just reported RECORD ice growth in the Arctic. So we may have to wait a little bit longer for the Water World fantasies to become realized.

Sea Ice is almost N/A with respect to Continental Glaciation. Whether there is a lot of it or none at all, Continental Glaciation will do what it will do.

[Maliblue]

Might revitalize the Salton Sea basin... Buy yer parcels now!

[Exitus Acta Probat]

But...but...but muh gift baskets....



Global warming makes Sad Eric sadder.