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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by notJim on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:30PM (#27896639)
Not sure a tiny island that’s 6-7’ above sea level is such a genius investment these days.
Re:Blue Origin first human flight by bob1029 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:44PM (#27896808)
The construction of most buildings along these coastal regions is expressly considering these kinds of concerns. Storm surge during a hurricane is an excellent facsimile for this scenario and encourages compensation on the engineering side. I haven't been down to South Padre Island in a long time to confirm, but I know for a fact that no beachfront property in Galveston has a meaningful first floor layout. Every one of these homes is constructed with the expectation that the first floor will flood, so everything important starts on the 2nd floor and up. Ground floor is typically just parking/storage/stairs/elevator.

I don't think any place on earth is a good spot to build when playing with geologic timescales.

Re:Blue Origin first human flight by nickik on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @02:29PM (#27897372)
By far small enough that you could easily protect it if need be.
Re:Blue Origin first human flight by thepasswordis on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:37PM (#27896718)
Do you think the ocean is going to rise SEVEN FEET?
Re:Blue Origin first human flight by DougBTX on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:59PM (#27897019)
Maybe!

> A number of later studies have concluded that a global sea level rise of 200 to 270 cm (6.6 to 8.9 ft) this century is "physically plausible".[8][2][9]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise

Re:Blue Origin first human flight by eloff on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @02:35PM (#27897451)
Yes. Much more, even by very conservative estimates.

Just probably not in our lifetimes. The maximum sea level rise will be hundreds, even thousands of years from now. In the absolute worst case scenario where all the ice melted, sea level would rise 230 feet. If we did nothing at all about climate change and kept burning fossil fuels until we ran out, that's actually a likely outcome. It has happened in the past when the earth was much warmer. It won't happen to us, because we're taking action. The final sea level rise would depend how we do with actively removing CO2 from the atmosphere, as it will keep rising long after we stop using fossil fuels.

7 feet by the end of this century is not impossible, but not in the conservative estimate. So far we've been tracking the aggressive estimates, not conservative ones.

Re:Blue Origin first human flight by Pixelbrick on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @02:11PM (#27897156)
Obligatory XKCD

https://xkcd.com/1732/