The math is easy. The ice in Antarctica averages a mile thick. Antarctica is 5% of surface of Earth Oceans cover 66% of Earth. Therefore 5280 x 0.05 = Y x 0.66. And Y = 400
If you live in Lost Angeles, Hollywood Boulevard is 400 feet above Sea Level. This would be the new coastline of Los Angeles and everything West and South would be under water.
http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/Los-Angeles-675024/
This is just to provide a real-life example so the possibility seems understandable. I have no idea WHAT the future will bring. My own personal suspicion is that we are in the middle of a planet wide climate change that was prompted by the appearance of mankind and the result of his "terra-forming" instincts. We will continue to burn fossil fuels until the supply is gone. And THEN, We will all live in the new vacation paradise of Antarctica and use Earth as a galactic way station in our quest to populate the Universe.
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William Schaeffer
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