Bay River Houseboats

So how long before we can expect earth to become like water world, should i start building a house boat now?

Public Comments

1. no it would be best for us all if you drown
2. You can be the modern-day Noah. Make some room for me and my family (we're a family of four)?
3. Yes, I'll bring lots of ciggarettes.
4. it's all a bunch of BS. stop being fooled so easily.
5. since we cut back on airborn particulates, global dimming has lessened; therefore global warming has speed up. But you still have a good while to go.
6. How long can you tread water? It will become a very serious problem in our lifetime, assuming man doesn`t kill himself first!
7. By the time that happens there probably won't be anyone left to worry about it. Too much fighting for ridiculous reasons.
8. i would
9. Some experts are theorizing that global warming wont cause a water world scenario. Yes, the polar ice caps are melting, however at the rate they are melting, the water levels on the coasts may rise but only slightly. the big problem lies where as the ice caps melt, the fresh water ice and bergs start to dilute the salt water in the oceans. This would deviate and possibly stop the gulf stream ocean current, which right now is what is keeping northern europe (Great Britain, France, and Scandinavia) from looking like Northern Canada. They are on similar latitudes. The gulf stream brings the warmer waters from the caribbean and the equator up north. with that effect gone, the possibility exists to enter another ice age. just a theory
10. i think that the earth is just going through a natural phase just like the ice age e.t.c what happens, happens but i don't think all the land will be gone even if everything did melt
11. Nah! I think a sunblocker of some kind would be better! Hide the water, you'll need it!
12. like now. all of you losers are poluting the earth.shame on all of you.now we're all going to die because we're killing the earth. and all of your children , grandchildren and so on are going to live in a terrible world. peace in the middle east<3 -wanda
13. Probably a very long time from now. Water levels are lower today then they were 170 years ago.
14. Just call it a liberal hoax and have another beer. It's the all purpose solution for any problem, and doesn't raise your taxes or rot your teeth.
15. hmm? I don't believe their is enough water to submerge all the land... but you can say goodbye to all the current islands.. most of Florida, half of Texas and several major coastal cities... and that's just here in the US! Lol, I've never watched Al Gore's movie.. but thanks for trying. Look up the elevation above sea level of the middle of Texas... 30 inches would make MOST of Texas a bay (under water) same with Florida Same with most Islands. Same with many major Coastal cities.
16. that's a retarted question
17. If all the ice in the world melts, the oceans will rise another 263 feet, comparable to the amount they've already risen since the last ice age. The oceans may rise another 40 feet beyond that due to themal expansion. That's it---300 feet of ocean rise is the absolute maximum. There's plenty of land above that altitude.
18. Im building my raft from Clinton signs, they are full of hot air pockets that float well in water.
19. Sea levels are rising very slowly - just over half the rise is caused by thermal expansion of the seas and oceans, the remainder is the additional burden of meltwater being introduced by the melting of parts of the ice caps. If every last bit of ice on the planet melted it would still fall far short of a Waterworld scenario. How long before all the ice melts? Thousands of years, it would require massive warming before the deep interior of Antarctica started to melt. How fast are sea levels rising now? The global average is currently 3.1mm (⅛ inch) a year, it's accelerating and by the end of the century rises of approx 750mm (30 inches) are likely. The house boat is something your great, great, great..... .....great grandkids can do.
20. Obviously "pip" gets his information from Al Gore's movie. Actually the IPCC says that the MAXIMUM increase in the sea level will be 34 inches by the year 2100.