When you buid a city below sea level.....and worry about flood ?

Anyone from N.O. care to reply?

N.o. ?

N.O. = New Orleans.

Yes, New Orleans. Not as obvious as I thought, sorry.

Sorry was still in V.

NOLA (aka, NOPSI) is there because it HAD to be there. People tried to find a better place to be a trans-shipment point between ocean and Mississippi River trade, but the only workable spot turned out to be an old Choctaw canoe portage, Naw'lins.

The first high ground is at "Red Stick" (aka BTR) but that is about 200 miles up the river.

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But what we are talking bout here will affect lower Manhattan, Holland, Bangladesh, Hawaii, Fiji, and almost all of Florida to mention just a very few places...

And don't think this is just a situation where slowly and gently rising waters move an inch a year or something. The real issue is storm surge.

And in a related story . . .

"Forests in the Pacific Northwest are dying twice as fast as they were 17 years ago, and scientists blame warming temperatures for the trend, according to a new study."

""If in your hometown where you live, the death rates of your friends and neighbors doubled and there are no compensating birth rates, wouldn't you want to figure out what's going on?" said Nathan Stephenson, research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and one of the authors of the report."

from CNN: Global warming threatens forests, study says

Ian

The forests will grow back.

exactly. why is it that everyone that bashes the theory, turns to the woe-is-me the polar bears will die boo hoo argument and shows now worry that the coast lines of the world may some day be under water

we're all in this together, kid...

uh - no... they will turn into shrublands if the climate stays the way it is now -- if it gets hotter and more arid, then you get desert

If there is more surface water due to global warming and melting polar caps, wouldn't there be more evaporation, thus more rain? I'm not a meteorologist, and I don't play one on the interweb either.

I'm all for rising sea levels. It will create more spawning grounds for salt water fish, and I love to catch and eat speckled trout.

The climate won't stay the same.

It's not static.

The forests will grow back.

Well look at the bright side - when all the ice melts we'll finally get a good look at the lost city of Atlantis.