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0 pointskibwen4y ago0 comments

Here's one I stumbled upon recently: the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has an interactive sea level rise map where you can see whether a given location in the US will suffer flooding/inundation from sea level rise based on the value the user selects: https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#

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jrwr4y ago

Interesting thing with that tool, it doesn't show any rise in the great lakes, I wonder if they would rise at all.

EricE4y ago

They are higher than the ocean (Niagara Falls!) so no - unless the paths between them and the path to the ocean gets blocked they won't rise.

deeg4y ago

All else being the same I would expect the great lakes to rise. My guess is that the lake levels are so strongly tied to rainfall patterns that it's pointless to predict their future levels right now.

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