The SEC would be fucked

3/26/2006 11:23:24 PM

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"then imports of produce will increase (I suspect California might disagree). "

do you realize the flooding wouldn't be limited to Florida right?

3/27/2006 12:26:06 AM

Thanks to the mountains, most of California will still be above water.

3/27/2006 12:44:24 AM

that would make some interesting dive sites.

3/27/2006 12:50:45 AM

Lost city of Atlanta, here we come!

3/27/2006 12:52:10 AM

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"Thanks to the mountains, most of California will still be above water. "

depends on what you want to grow

3/27/2006 1:03:28 AM

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"Assuming you are correct, and the thread originator was not interested AT ALL at what other people figured the odds to be and simply wanted to know "what if 1/4 of Florida were gone?", then "overall US GDP would decrease substantially as lives and businesses were dislocated and moved inland over a long period of time. I suspect it would average something like 0.1% GDP loss per year, small but noticeable. You could combine it with all the other broken windows of living in North America (hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, etc)."

I think it would be greater then that since all major ports in the United States would be underwater. The impact of moving a populace, and rebuilding infastructure would be much much greater then 0.1% GDP.

3/27/2006 9:36:55 AM

Well, yes, 0.1% is a little low, I suspect now that I have tested the number. Over 100 years, 0.1% only raises $52.9 trillion dollars from the U.S. economy, or the equivalent of everything the United States produces in five years. Of course, it depends on many variables, if I am right and the productivity of the construction sector is due to rise in the medium future through the application of recent technological advances, then it might be covered by far less than current economic realities would guestimate.

But yea, 0.1% was a little low. But 0.3% is too high by the same token ($145 Trillion).

3/27/2006 10:33:53 AM

It's a Republican plot to kill off all liberals. Sure, you'd reduce parts of the Red South, but you're also washing away many of the larger cities like Boston and New York that serve as bastions for liberal thinking...

3/27/2006 11:36:33 AM

i know you are joking, but it isn't going to kill off anyone. the sea level rise will be gradual... it's not like a wall of water is going to come hit florida in 2100 to cause this.

3/27/2006 2:02:05 PM

^ Buzz killer

3/27/2006 2:56:36 PM