This Forbes map is bizarre. At first glance, you think 'Oh, so this is what would happen if the oceans rose 100 feet.' But then you see California submerged while Florida is mostly intact. Come again? Florida's highest point is 345 feet. MOST of the state is much lower than that! (I know since I have land six miles from the gulf, and it's covered by sand and sea shells.)
More importantly, what is that huge land mass off the eastern seaboard? An invasion by Europe? Atlantis arisen? It's obvious that Forbes isn't talking about rising waters at all. Rather, they must be predicting a huge change in the continents.
I don't have access to the article. Do any of you? I'd like to know what it is that they're speculating about. It's obviously a wild-assed new theory someone has come up with and managed to put into print in what was ONCE a respected publication.
Or maybe it's not a doomsday map at all. It might be what the U.S. will look like in about 10 million years. In that case, the map has been totally misrepresented by Nemo's article.
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