Horace Heffner wrote:
On Jan 18, 2006, at 3:51 AM, Rhong Dhong wrote:
That reminds me of something I have wondered about.
I live in a town on the South shore of Lake Ontario.
If global warming results in a rise in sea-level, will
the raging waters travel down the St. Lawrence Seaway,
and raise the level of Lake Ontario and flood me out?
Or is there a stopper somewhere along the way?
Don't worry! There is plenty of elevation at your location. The water
surface elevation drops a lot on the way to the sea. Niagra Falls
alone is a good stopper.
Yes but Niagara's _above_ Lake Ontario.
The Falls is between Erie and Ontario. Ontario's not all that high, and
since the St. Lawrence is, as I mentioned, said to flow backwards for
much of its length during the incoming tide, the question isn't quite
such a no-brainer as it might seem at first.
The places that may be wiped out without billions in intervention are
low lying, like Vienna, Holland, Bangladesh, New Orleans and the entire
gulf coast for that matter, and much of Florida.
Horace Heffner
