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I have my doubts that sea level will rise 88 meters.



I was joking of course, but 88 meters is not that far above the sea level if all the Earth's ice caps melted. I think if that happens, it would add up to about 70 meters. So Oklahoma is safe, but it would get a lot closer to the coast.

Hopefully we can prevent all ice caps melting, and even if they do melt, the process would probably take 1000 years (+/- an unknown number of centuries based on how this plays out, how much we manage to mitigate or accellerate it, etc.).




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