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Originally Posted by rahl
My point still stands. Adding the remaining 3 percent of water to the oceans won't have much of an effect to global sea levels. People want to make it out to be some doomsday scenario when that simply isn't the case. we may loose some beach front property...but not much.
I didn't mean to totally derail this thread. Sorry ASU
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i also didnt mean to derail
just saw a problem
so ill leave just one more comment
The volume of Earth's oceans is approximately 1.347 billion cubic kilometers
3% of that is a lot
as for causing earthquakes?
interesting theories abound
"VICTORIA — With global warming raising sea levels worldwide, parts of B.C. may be kept high and dry by the same geological forces that bringing earthquakes to the province, a government report says.
Then again, the safety zones, where those earth-moving tectonic shifts will keep pushing the land higher out of the water, don't extend much past the west coast of Vancouver Island.
Meanwhile, other geological forces at work in the Fraser River Delta of the Lower Mainland will push the land downward, so sea levels there will become even higher.
a new map to be drawn?
mapmaking might be a good field to get into