Interactive webmap of the SF Bay Area that shows which 'hoods will drown first when the waters rise in GlobalWarmingGeddon. Here is a similar project I blogged earlier this year. (thanks, Dave Bullock)
Rising Ocean Levels
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I can live with that. More wetlands for the birds.
Can we speed this up please. Using this map, my house in the Peninsula hills will be bay front property. Might have to go buy a hummer or something...
Glad I live in the Sunset district, looks like I'll just be a block or so closer to the beach. I may have to trade in my scooter for a jet ski for commuting though.
That is pretty cool.
Can you do one that shows how far the Ocean levels will recede when we go into a cooling period?
@mikeyg: Not very far. Glaciation takes forever. Melting is fast.
The Pacific Institute published a set of maps showing the effects of sea level rise on entire California coast in early 2009. Its report, and others that make up the California Climate Change Center's biennial assessment, are probably the most comprehensive look yet at the effects of climate change on a region.
http://www.pacinst.org/reports/sea_level_rise/maps/