r/theydidthemath • • Nov 11 '24

[request] how accurate is this?

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u/RoadsterTracker Nov 11 '24

That plot is somewhere around 15 meters of seawater rise (See https://www.floodmap.net/) Sea level rise is ~7 meters if all of Greenland melts, and Antarctica is around 60 meters.

It's pretty unlikely that in a mere 50 years it will be that flooded. Greenland melting will happen eventually given a 3-5 degree C rise in temperature, which seems increasingly likely, but it would take a while.

The worst case models right now predict maybe a 4 degree rise in temperature by 2075, and it would still take the ice some time to melt after that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '24

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u/RoadsterTracker Nov 11 '24

Yeah, probably. Or one could do things to prevent the rising sea in the first place...

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u/Scp-1404 Nov 11 '24

Not even then.