If I only had a beach house....

[Dave_V]

If I only had a beach house....I might be worried about a 1.5-foot water level rise, but unless I'm unknowingly a "Highlander" I think I'll be long gone by then! According to a new NOAA report, Southwest Florida could see sea levels rise nearly 1.5 feet by 2050 if we stay with the current trends.
Anyone young enough or close enough to the ocean it could spoil your plans?!

 

[bigpaul]

I live on the highest point of land 30 miles inland from the sea.

 

[Arcticdude]

Unless the sea level raises over 5,000 feet and travels 600 miles inland I'm not too worried.
These "experts" are always predicting doom and gloom. The problem is, there are still a lot of ignorant fools who fall for this silly nonsense.

 

[Oddcaliber]

New Orleans is already 32 feet below sea level. Even when it rains here you need scuba gear to get around!

 

[GaRp58]

I live near the Danube, it is around five miles away at the nearest point. It gets fed from seven large rivers all across Europe and swells accordingly to the rainfall in Germany, Austria, Chech Republic and Hungary itself. Over many hundred years, they have built dams and levees in series on the lower side of the river to catch any overflowing. The Danube would have to overflow an area of about a thousand square miles to be able to reach my house behind two of the levees which are about 20 feet high. I have good insurance too, triple of the value of what I paid for the house.

 

[Arcticdude]

Nobody alive today, or for many generations after, will ever see the sea levels rise. The odds of another ice age are just as likely as another warming period. Nobody knows for certain which direction the climate will go, only that it will change as it always does.

 

[Carolina Mud Dog]

If I only had a beach house....I might be worried about a 1.5-foot water level rise, but unless I'm unknowingly a "Highlander" I think I'll be long gone by then! According to a new NOAA report, Southwest Florida could see sea levels rise nearly 1.5 feet by 2050 if we stay with the current trends.
Anyone young enough or close enough to the ocean it could spoil your plans?!

Nope...200+ miles from the ocean but I have lived there and it's not all it's cracked up to be.