Question 29 The figure below shows an elevation map of a portion of the Outer Ba

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Question 29

The figure below shows an elevation map of a portion of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, by Cape Hatteras, in 2008. Elevations are given in half meter increments as shown in the legend on the map, where dark green indicates land that is within 0.5 meters (or approximately 1.6 feet) of sea level.

Based on this map, the answer you calculated in question 24, and assuming that this figure presents the elevations of this area in 2012, do you think that people living in this area will have anything to worry about by 2112 due to sea level rise? Why or why not?

Question 30

The images below are taken from http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/24/opinion/sunday/what-could-disappear.html?_r=2&#g-footnote-anchor, an interactive map that illustrates the effect of sea level rise on various US cities, published in the New York Times Sunday Review Opinion Pages on 24 November 2012 by Baden Copeland, Josh Keller, and Bill Marsh based on data from Climate Central, the USGS, NOAA, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The images show the area of land that will be flooded in New York City for various levels of sea level rise: a 5 foot rise, a 12 foot rise, and 25 foot rise.

Using the number of feet determined in question 30, about how much of New York City would be flooded if the entire Greenland ice cap melted?

Explanation / Answer

from the calculations we see that lery negligible amount of sea level rises due to melting of ice. therefor for practical terms there wont be any flooding.

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