Monday, November 18, 2013

If all the ice melts and seas raise by 216 feet?

Here is a partial list of cites partially or completely lost to the sea including all of Florida:
I'm starting on the west coast of the U.S. because that is where I live:

Vancouver
Seattle
Portland
San Francisco
Los Angeles
San Diego
Houston
Pine Bluff
New Orleans
Tallahassee
Montreal
Halifax
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington D.C.
Norfolk
Charleston
Jacksonville
Orlando
Tampa
Miami
Havana,Cuba
Cancun,Mexico
Veracruz, Mexico
Port au-Prince Haiti
(I'm following a map from the National Geographic with the Statue of Liberty partly underwater as it folds out)
Dublin, Ireland
Lisbon, Portugal
London,England
Amsterdam, Holland
Brussels
Venice, Italy
Barcelona, Spain
Rome, Italy
Tunis
Tripoli, Libya
Alexandria, Egypt
Cairo, Egypt
Beirut, Lebanon
Istambul, Turkey
Odesa
Copenhagen
Stockholm
Helsinki
Tallinn
Riga
St. Petersburg
Baghdad, Iraq
Kuwait City
Doha
Dubai
(To South America)
Georgetown
Paramaribo
Lima, Peru
Ascunsion
Buenos Aires
Montivideo
Rio de Janeiro
(Asia Map)
Karachi, Pakistan
Mumbai, India(Bombay)
Columbo, Sri Lanka
Calcutta, India
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Yangoon, Burma
Bangkok, Thailand
Phnom Penh
Ho Chi Minh City
Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
Jakarta, Indonesia
Manila, Philippines
Hong Kong, China
Beijing, China
Qingdao, China
Shanghai, China
Seoul, Korea
Tokyo, Japan
(Australia)
Perth
Adelaide
Melbourne
Sidney
Brisbane
(Africa) and part of the Middle east
Jeddah
Djibouti
Aden
Mogadishu
Mombassa
Dar es Salaam
Maputo
Cape Town, South Africa
Luanda
Lagos
Abidjan
Monrovia
Freetown
Conakry
Bissau
Dakar

(and this is only a partial list of the largest cities that will be destroyed partially or completely as the seas rise worldwide).

Though it is true that people will slowly build seawalls in the richer nations to protect themselves much like Amsterdam already has and other nations will learn from this, there will be a lot of loss of real estate and real financial losses of people who own this real estate worldwide. And in storms many will die if they don't move to higher ground in time as the seas rise to that point.

Source: National Geographic (with Statue of Liberty partly underwater) September 2013


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