At the risk of being nerd sniped, I wonder if that’s true or false. The intuitive answer is with higher sea levels more land would be understaer, meaning the land area has decreased and so its area should decrease; in some cases lowlands like Florida or islands would completely disappear. But low lying basins flooding and turning into bays might offset that…Call XKCD.
Aside from that, if all the current waterfront property goes underwater, then previously undesirable land will slowly become more valuable, once we know where coastlines will land (it depends on when and at what temperature warming starts to flatten out). When that happens, it becomes another avenue for wealth transfer to the rich.
At the risk of being nerd sniped, I wonder if that’s true or false. The intuitive answer is with higher sea levels more land would be understaer, meaning the land area has decreased and so its area should decrease; in some cases lowlands like Florida or islands would completely disappear. But low lying basins flooding and turning into bays might offset that…Call XKCD.
Aside from that, if all the current waterfront property goes underwater, then previously undesirable land will slowly become more valuable, once we know where coastlines will land (it depends on when and at what temperature warming starts to flatten out). When that happens, it becomes another avenue for wealth transfer to the rich.
Flatten out? That’s optimistic
well, eventually we’d run out of ice to melt.
I think liquid water still expands when heated, so the oceans would still have quite some potential for sea level rise after the ice was gone.