Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal cities across the globe

Re:Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal citi... by Steuard on Monday May 22, 2017 @08:56AM (#14393144)

Here's an earlier NY Times article about a coastal Virginia community where property values are plummeting because a combination of rising sea levels and sinking land levels is gradually flooding the whole place out:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/magazine/when-rising-seas...

(They're seeing the effect faster because it's not just rising seas at work, but the rising seas are definitely part of it. This pattern will be increasingly common over time.)

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Re:Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal citi... by erroneousfunk on Monday May 22, 2017 @10:35AM (#14393875)

Looking for a house in the Boston area last year, I definitely turned down some properties because of the risk during sea level rise. Regardless of what the seas actually do, increasing _concern_ about climate change could impact my future property value, which I wanted to avoid.

My real estate agent was relatively new to the business, but she said she hadn't heard of anyone bringing climate change up as a factor in deciding which house to buy, which I thought was odd. My house is safe up to about a 10 meter rise now!

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