Thread 2837815

>vegetation able to grow at higher latitudes and in the greenland and antarctic interior
>antarctica now a kino massive volcanic island chain
>half of eastern ch*na flooded
>like a fifth of br*zil flooded
>globohomo coastal megacities flooded
>most of evropa safe
>flooded land would create shallow seas ideal for massive reefs and marine ecosystems to form
>higher temperatures and expanded oceans would lead to higher rainfall in previously arid areas
maybe our iceless future won't be so bad

Earth supposedly hasn't had any glaciers for 85% of it's history, so this is actually the natural state of the world.

>>2837815 (OP)
And then Kevin Costner grows gills and webbed feet

>>2837815 (OP)
>ftw you are old enough to remember when Florida was going to be under water by the year 2000

>>2837815 (OP)
>>flooded land would create shallow seas ideal for massive reefs and marine ecosystems to form

Supposedly this was an enormously important aspect of what made Cretaceous marine fauna & flora so fertile and abundant. The 'shallow' seas creating an ideal pelagic zone due to the warm waters and better access to sunshine allowing for more food for algae, corals, bivalves, and fish spawning sites. You look at the world map and enormous sections of the world, entire portions of continents, were below sea level and existed as warm shallow reefs. I also think the fact that the seas went so far inland also helped with humidity and transporting moisture further inland.

I think it's in Mitchell, Oregon, but they found a stupidly enormous fossilized guano bed back in 2023 that could be 9 miles long. It's literally just generations upon generations of pterodactyl and seabird shit, fish bones, ammonite shells, piled several feet thick. This is, in another way, how a fertile shallow sea produces more nutrients: that shit shelf having transferred millions of tons of calcium, phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium, from sea to land.

>>2837815 (OP)
japan is so fucked

>>2837864
Anyone else remember that they played that movie on TV every weekend for like 10 years?

>>2837960
It has its own show at Universal Studios theme park. Its still running. (Show is based on the attol scene with the jet skis attacking).
Also, the Trimaran was an engineering marvel. It usually takes 4-5 people to work the sails on a trimaran that size but all the "automation" on it actually worked and it could be piloted by a single person.

>>2837931
It's fascinating how relatively minor changes can impact the entire Earth. Like supposedly when Australia separated from Tasmania it allowed cool water through which helped form Antarctic ice sheets which contributed to the latest glacial period.

>>2837815 (OP)
I know that it exists on the real world map too but god damn the Himalayas look silly. It’s like a knot of muscle above India

>>2837815 (OP)
>Florida gone
>Southern Louisiana gone
The US is winning

>>2837815 (OP)
The map is wrong. It says I'll be underwater when I live hundreds of metres higher than anyone else in the country, including places it said would not be underwater.

VGHH...

>>2837815 (OP)
>Countless species go extinct because climate changed too fast for them to adapt