Wed 24 January 2007 - Rising damp
I saw this Google Map Mashup a while back, but Pete found it for me again: What happens if the sea level rises?
Even for the maximum shown, a 14 metre rise, if this is right, apparently most of Melbourne will remain above water, though if you live in Altona, Port Melbourne or Chelsea, you might want to invest in a snorkel.
January 24th, 2007 at 8:42am
And all the cockcroaches in these areas will climb to higher ground.
January 24th, 2007 at 11:12am
So why isn’t “The Basin” flooded?
January 24th, 2007 at 8:05pm
Excellent! Brings us even closer to the beach.
January 24th, 2007 at 10:30pm
Will have to move the Grand Prix and go to the beach in Pakenham. And that’s assuming only 14 m. I read somewhere that if all of the ice melts we’ll get more like an extra 80 metres of the wet stuff on top of what we’ve got now. Anyone wanting to live on Dandenong Island?
And, outside of Oz, 14m means half of Belgium and pretty much all of Holland gone. Now would be a good time to go visit Amsterdam.
February 1st, 2007 at 11:29am
That’s pretty cool/scary. 5m will get me (and most of my suburb) underwater.
Although it’s probably not that bad. I was looking at the Sharples report the other day (verbosely titled Indicative Mapping of Tasmanian Coastal Vulnerability to Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: Explanatory Report, 2nd edition) but the projected rise in sea level to 2100 given there is only 9cm-88cm.
February 24th, 2007 at 7:40pm
Ace. Looks like we’ll be getting top notch water views from our house - and be able to laugh at those property-investin’ Golden Milers and their Venetian-style mega mansions…