David Holmgren exploring future scenarios: http://youtu.be/PQyw-2V37uw?t=58m
There's more on this topic in the latest John Michael Greer blogpost, Dark Age America: The Rising Ocean, wherein he discusses marine transgression:
'So far, at
least, the vast East Antarctic ice sheet has shown only very modest changes,
and most current estimates suggest that it would take something far more
drastic than the carbon output of our remaining economically accessible fossil
fuel reserves to tip it over into instability; this is a good thing, as East
Antarctica’s ice fields contain enough water to drive sea level up 250 feet or
so. Thus a reasonable estimate for sea
level change over the next five hundred years involves the collapse of the
Greenland and West Antarctic sheets and some modest melting on the edges of the
East Antarctic sheet, raising sea level by something over 50 feet, delivered in
a series of unpredictable bursts divided by long periods of relative stability
or slow change.
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