[FredHead47]

Which means the "rise in sea levels" would continue as follows: 1ft in 200 yrs, 2ft in 400 years, 2.7ft in 500 years, 5.4ft in 1,000 yrs, 11ft in 2,000 yrs, 16ft in 3,000 yrs, 21.5ft in 4,000 yrs, 27ft in 5,000 yrs and 54ft in 10,000 yrs.

If humans are not smart enough to make the adjustments to simply where they live (either protect it or move), required by those rates of sea level changes, then they won't deserve to still be here.

I'll take my chances - and build my house, that will last maybe a 100 years, 50 feet from the water, which will probably not be a problem for 10,000 YEARS!

headshakey

[Wuli]

“I’ll take my chances - and build my house, that will last maybe a 100 years, 50 feet from the water”

Full disclosure: I am NOT a GW alarmist and see the hand of nature as greater and more substantial than anything humans are doing, in terms of current climate changes.

Yet, as relates to what you do when you build your house, the important element, if needed at all by you or your many generations of future descendants, would not be how many “feet from the water”, but how many feet above sea level. A spot of land fifty feet from the water, in some particular context, could be no more than a foot higher than the water level, and if it is near a lake or river with a record of flooding, that fifty foot distance would not be much protection.