Countries that will sink in the near future. When California will no longer be (predictions) Maldives, Indian Ocean

“In the not too distant future, the United States will experience the largest EARTHQUAKE in history. The day is approaching when the media in this country will report terrible news - the most powerful and destructive earthquake in history. This message will cause widespread panic and fear. All television broadcasts will be interrupted, day after day they will talk only about this catastrophe.” WILKERSON, 1973.

YOU WILL RETURN TO THIS ARTICLE MORE THAN TIMES, IN WHICH WE WILL SHOW YOU THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ALL PROPHECIES. SO, READ CAREFULLY!

“The crisis will shake America more than the Great Depression, the dollar WILL BE VALUE and turn into a worthless piece of paper, and its place in the world for oil trading will be taken by Russian ruble, which will then become a SINGLE WORLD CURRENCY, since the EURO, LIKE THE COLLAPSE AMERICAN DOLLAR, will also not justify itself..."

“A HUGE TSUNAMI WAVE will cover NEW YORK and all cities of the EAST COAST of the USA. A terrible hysterical panic will begin in America, people will be urgently evacuated and resettled in other cities.”

“And from then on, a gradual but inevitable FLOODING OF THE OCEANS OF THE LANDS OF NORTH AMERICA AND WESTERN EUROPE will begin.”

“During this period of economic crisis and natural disasters, a “BLACK” PRESIDENT will rule in the USA, and at the same time, against the backdrop of a depreciated dollar and the economic crisis, not just mass riots will occur in the USA, but real UPRISINGS AND GENUINE REVOLUTIONARY EVENTS... »

Here you need to pay attention to several things: the RUBLE will take the place of the single world currency for which Russia will begin to sell oil (now there is a scheme under which Russia receives 2 times more rubles from oil sales than before, that is, for every dollar not 30 rubles, and 55, and.. the time will come when Vladimir Putin will demand to buy oil only for rubles, which at that time will only be in Russia).

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The second thing you need to pay attention to is that at this time the USA will be ruled by a “BLACK” PRESIDENT, and he will be the last for his country, because after that it will either freeze or break up into southern and northern states. Both Vanga and Casey talked about this. AND THIS IS OUR STARTING POINT.

By the way, the 58th US presidential election, in which Obama is not eligible to be elected to a third term, is scheduled for Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

And the third thing you need to pay attention to is that a HUGE TSUNAMI WAVE will cover New York and the entire east coast of the USA, after which a gradual FLOODING OF THE OCEANS OF NORTH AMERICA AND WESTERN EUROPE will begin.

Let's take a closer look.

VLADIMIR LOTOV

“America from the most prosperous country in the world will turn into the most unfortunate one, which the whole world will sympathize with, and will lose its status as a superpower, and after a SERIES OF SEISMIC DISASTER, the USA WILL FALL UP into two or even more parts.”

DANNION BRINKLEY

“The end of America as a world power would come with TWO MONSTER EARTHQUAKES, during which houses swayed and fell to the ground like children’s toys.”

Here we are talking about 2 EARTHQUAKES, as a result of which the USA will disintegrate. It can be assumed that one of the earthquakes will occur on the east coast, and the second on the west, in California. But in what order and at what time?

ROSS PETERSON

“In his opinion, Georgia, the Carolinas and the entire WEST COAST of the USA will suffer as a result of a NIGHTMARE TECTONIC CATACLYSM. CALIFORNIA WILL BE FLOODED AND NEW YORK WILL BE SINKED INTO THE OCEAN. HUGE TERRITORIES OF EUROPE “WILL DISAPPEAR IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE.” Peterson argues that Spain, Portugal and the west coast of England will "sink into the water."

It also says that both the west and east coasts of the United States will suffer. And also that HUGE TERRITORIES OF EUROPE WILL DISAPPEAR, such as Spain and Portugal. (agrees with the words of Valeria Koltsova)

ZIYAD SILVADI

According to Sylvadi's forecasts, the states will be washed away by a powerful tsunami. “WATER DEATH” WILL ATTACK AMERICA SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM THE PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC OCEANS.”

The key word is SIMULTANEOUSLY!

EDGAR CASEY

“The earth will be subject to catastrophic destruction...MOST OF EUROPE will change beyond recognition in an instant. England is half-flooded. Most of Japan must go under water. IN WESTERN AMERICA THE EARTH WILL BEGINNING TO CRAFT UP.”

“CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHERN NEVADA WILL TAKE A TUMPL into the waters of the Pacific Ocean. MEXICO IS IN RUINS."

“Look at New York, Connecticut and things like that. Many areas on the East Coast will shake, as will the central United States. LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, MOST OF THESE CITIES WILL BE DESTROYED, EVEN BEFORE NEW YORK. The East Coast areas near New York, and perhaps New York itself, will virtually disappear from the face of the earth."

Here we need to summarize preliminary results. So now we know that there will be 2 earthquakes in the USA. One on the west coast, the second on the east. They will be accompanied by 2 tsunamis, SIMULTANEOUSLY from both sides. Casey suggests that California will suffer first, and only then New York. And Casey also says that Europe will change in a SINGLE INSTANT. This agrees with previous prophecies. But where does it all start? What will be the trigger for these disasters? We read the following prophecy.

SAYS THE FAMOUS AMERICAN Psychic CHET B. SNOW, WITH WHICH DR. HELEN WAMBACH CONDUCTED HYPNOTIC PROGRESSION SESSIONS.

“There have recently been VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS, SEVERE STORMS, AND LONDON SUBDIVISIONS THAT RESULTED IN SEVERE FLOODING ALONG THE WEST COAST. The consequence of this was atmospheric disturbances and quite severe destruction throughout the entire Pacific region.”

/ talking about California /

– WHAT WAS THIS VULCANO? Where did it all start?

– IT WAS FUJIYAMA, it seems to me. At least, a volcano in Japan. Its eruption caused a chain reaction of powerful earthquakes and subsequent volcanic eruptions in the Pacific region, all the way to Alaska. THE NEWSPAPERS CALLED IT THE "FLASH OF THE RING OF FIRE."

- WHEN DID IT START?

– AROUND THE BEGINNING OF MARCH, AS IT SEEMES. I DID NOT KNOW A MORE EXACT DATE BECAUSE THERE WERE ONLY SMALL TROUBLES IN OUR AREA BEFORE FUJI EXPLODED.

“Now AT THE END OF MARCH, television and radio are assuring people that the worst is over. The waters are slowly receding, and we simply have to adapt to the new situation...”

“Helen's voice moved me forward. At first everything around me was black. Then I realized that it was the sky that had completely darkened. There was so much soot and dust flying in the air that I lost my breath for a while..."

“THE SECOND ACT OF THE TRAGEDY IS COMPLETE,” I replied. Then I said THAT HAPPENED A MONTH AGO, IN MAY. The exact dates seemed immaterial."

“THE GULF OF MEXICO SWALLOWED ALMOST ALL OF TEXAS,” “The coastline moved a couple hundred miles to Phoenix, Arizona, and all the way to Oregon there were only mountainous areas above the surface of the water.” PART OF JAPAN SUBMITTED UNDER WATER, WHERE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DIE. ONLY A SMALL ISLAND LEFT OF AUSTRALIA.

What can I say. The eruption of Mount Fuji led to severe flooding along the west coast. In general, this eruption caused a chain reaction of powerful earthquakes in the Pacific region. THE NEWSPAPERS CALLED IT THE "FLASH OF THE RING OF FIRE." Remember? Casey said - Mexico is in ruins. So, this is the same line of the ring of fire along the west coast of the United States.

"RING OF FIRE" is a tectonic fault passing under the Pacific Ocean, capturing the Russian Far East, Japan, northeastern Australia and the western coast of America."

WHEN DID IT START? – AROUND THE BEGINNING OF MARCH. THERE WERE ONLY SMALL TROUBLES IN OUR AREA BEFORE FUJI EXPLODED.

And he continues - Now AT THE END OF MARCH, television and radio are assuring people that the worst is over. The waters are slowly receding... Retreating? Was it a tsunami? Or has California taken a somersault?

THE SECOND ACT OF THE TRAGEDY IS ACCOMPLISHED. Then I said that it WAS A MONTH AGO, IN MAY. “THE GULF OF MEXICO SWALLOWED ALMOST ALL OF TEXAS” - this concerns the second earthquake, on the east coast. It is after this, the second earthquake, that the gradual flooding of many territories will begin. PART OF JAPAN SUBMITTED UNDER WATER, WHERE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DIE. ONLY A SMALL ISLAND REMAINS OF AUSTRALIA. Here we also need to remember Western Europe. Spain, Portugal, UK...

By the way, there is a connection here with Valeria Koltsova’s prediction at the beginning of the article. A HUGE TSUNAMI WAVE will cover NEW YORK and all cities of the EAST COAST of the USA. And from then on, a gradual but inevitable FLOODING OF THE OCEANS OF NORTH AMERICA AND WESTERN EUROPE WITH WATER will begin.

As you can see, this is a DIRECT RELATIONSHIP between the tsunami in New York and the flooding of the territories that will begin after the second earthquake. Conclusion - a tsunami will occur after an earthquake in California. Possibly at the same time as an earthquake on the east coast.

Fuji's eruption will be accompanied by a very strong earthquake. Wilkerson talked about this, and it will be a sign for California. Because it will cause an earthquake Aleutian Islands, which will lead to a series of earthquakes and aftershocks along the west coast of the United States. And now some news about Mount Fuji:

1. Tokyo, May 19, 2013. A special commission under the Japanese government has outlined evacuation routes for residents in the event of an eruption of Mount Fuji, as it will affect at least 130 thousand people.

2. Tokyo, March 5, 2014. The country's administrative authorities have begun drawing up an evacuation plan for residents of all areas located near a potential disaster. There are fears that when volcanic ash begins to spread across Japan, up to 470 thousand people will be forced to evacuate from three neighboring prefectures.

3. Tokyo, October 9, 2014. In July, a French-Japanese team of researchers issued a report warning of "great pressure" brewing inside Fuji. Reason increased risk The volcanic eruption is the Tohoku earthquake that occurred in 2011. Scientists observed the seismic waves produced by the infamous magnitude 9 earthquake and, using more than 70 terabytes of information collected from 800 seismic sensors across Japan, concluded that there was an area of ​​high pressure beneath Mount Fuji.

Remember Vanga’s words that the USA will freeze? So, the states began to freeze in 2014 and continued in the winter of 2015. And at the same time, California suffered from a record drought. Coincidence? There's just another connection here. It turns out that while one plate of the San Andreas fault on the California side is not loaded with anything due to drought, and the second, on the contrary, is overloaded with snow, friction arises between them, as a result of which energy is released, which breaks out to the surface in the form earthquakes. Now let's look at March 2014.

1. Off the coast of California, on the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate, on March 10, 2014, a resonant earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 occurred at a depth of about 7 km.

2. B American state California, March 17, 2014, an earthquake of magnitude 4.4 occurred. The source of the tremors, according to the US Geological Survey, was located in the vicinity of Los Angeles, writes The Washington Post.

3. In Los Angeles, California, USA after the earthquake on March 17, 2014, continues to increase seismic activity. On March 29, 2014, 33 km from Los Angeles, an earthquake of magnitude 5.1 occurred at a depth of about 2 km. The earthquake damaged the water supply network.

4. The earthquake in California on August 24, 2014 injured about 200 people. One of the victims is in critical condition in hospital. This is the strongest earthquake to hit California in 25 years.

Now let's return to the topic of tsunamis.

DR. LINDSAY'S PREDICTION.

“A minor earthquake will occur in California that will cause only minor damage and wall cracks (March 2014?) in homes in Los Angeles and San Francisco. IN EXACTLY A YEAR AFTER A COLOSSAL CONVASION WILL SHAKE THE WHOLE EARTH. IN CALIFORNIA, THE SAN ANDREAS FAILURE WILL BE PUSHING AWAY, AND THE LANDS WEST OF IT WILL BEGINNING TO SUCCEED INTO THE OCEAN. THIS GLOBAL EARTHQUAKE WILL CAUSE TSUNAMI WAVES 150 FEET HIGH AROUND THE WORLD WHICH WILL FLOOD MOST COASTAL CITIES. Huge cracks will appear in the ground. Many volcanoes will erupt. The whole earth will tremble."

CHET B. SNOW says it all started AROUND THE EARLY MARCH.

We read the prophecy.

VISION OF AMERICAN CLAIRVOYANT RAYMOND AGUILER

Vision of March 29, 1999 “Everything that has been, everything that will be, WILL CHANGE AT 5 O’CLOCK. All the power in the world will move to the right - then move to the left - then move to the right - then move to the left. Then everything will change at 5 o'clock. Because Our time has come to cleanse out all the dirt and sin. AN EXPLOSIVE SOUND WILL BE HAPPENED AT 5:00 PM ON THE DAY OF THE BIG BANG. WHEN THERE WILL BE A FULL MOON."

KEY PHRASE – WHEN THERE WILL BE A FULL MOON.

There is only one full moon at the beginning of March 2015: March 5 at 21:04:11 Moscow time. This is another coincidence - AROUND THE EARLY MARCH. In 2016, the full moon in March is only on the 23rd. Not at the beginning of the month. So this is March 2015 after all.

ANOTHER KEY PHRASE – WILL CHANGE AT 5 O’CLOCK. It turns out March 5, 5 PM in California - this is the sixth of March, 4 am Moscow time.

WE CAN SUM UP THE RESULTS: Most likely, on March 5, a “ring of fire outbreak” with a magnitude of 8.8 will occur in California. The trigger mechanism will be the explosion of Fuji. The second earthquake will occur on the east coast. In May. New York will suffer. And after all these events, gradual flooding of the territories will begin. As a result, the European Union will collapse...

AND NOW A LITTLE ABOUT RUSSIA:

Vanga’s prediction: “There is no force that could break Russia. Russia will develop, grow and strengthen. EVERYTHING IS GROWING LIKE ICE, ONLY ONE THING WILL REMAIN UNTOUCHED – THE GLORY OF VLADIMIR, THE GLORY OF RUSSIA. Too much has been sacrificed. No one can stop Russia. She will sweep away everything in her path and not only survive, but also become the LORD OF THE WORLD.”

Jean Dixon's prediction: “Russia will have an opportunity for development. NATURAL DISASTERS WILL AFFECT RUSSIA LEAST, AND WESTERN SIBERIA EVEN LESS AFFECTED. THE HOPE OF THE WORLD, ITS REVIVAL, WILL COME FROM RUSSIA, and will have no connection with what communism is. It is in Russia that the most genuine and great source of freedom will arise. Then every person will begin to live for the sake of his ideas and his neighbors. It will be a completely different way of being, based on a principle that will become the basis of a new philosophy of life."

Edgar Cayce's prediction: “Hope will come from Russia to the world - not from the communists, not from the Bolsheviks, but from free Russia! It will be years before this happens, but it is the religious development of Russia that will give the world hope. The most big hopes will bring the world the development of religion in Russia. WE SHOULD EXPECT THE SALVATION OF THE WORLD FROM RUSSIA.”

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Rising sea levels are quite real, but instead of flooding the land, we should expect an increase in its area.

New estimates of the rate of sea level rise have given rise to downright panicky comments in the press - they say that the largest US cities will be flooded by 2100. It is easy to see that in Russia, too, huge areas should be flooded. Others point to coastal cities, located tens of meters below sea level, and yet have existed comfortably for centuries and millennia. Who is right - pessimists or optimists? Is it worth doing anything at all in connection with the onset of the sea or “it will do as is”?

Is the person to blame for this?

Today people emit 33 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, mostly from burning coal. It’s not difficult to check these data; just remember that in the reaction C + O 2 = CO 2, humanity adds this same C (coal) 8 billion tons per year. There are only three trillion tons of carbon dioxide in the planet's atmosphere, which means we are adding more than a percent extra per year. Half of this percentage is absorbed by vegetation and rocks, and no one has time to absorb half. This makes carbon dioxide - which is now about 400 parts per million in the air - increase by two parts per million every year.

wide-legged." Therefore, it easily absorbs long waves of infrared radiation, "flowing around" smaller molecules of other air gases. Hence the inevitable warming, from which reconstructions of the defeat of the dog knights on the ice of Lake Peipus have to be carried out on snow-free dry grass. Warming annually is a quarter of a trillion tons ice in Greenland alone, and also warms the water on the surface of the seas - and it expands due to heating. The influx of melt water and the expansion of sea water mean an inevitable rise in sea level, according to the latest satellite data - by 3.2 millimeters per year.

It doesn’t sound particularly scary, but this means 32 centimeters per hundred years. If the level of carbon dioxide emissions remains at the same level and does not decrease, a sharp acceleration is possible. Then by 2100 the World Ocean may rise by 0.6 meters. The most radical ecologists round this figure to the nearest meter. However, the latter assessment, frankly speaking, lacks any scientific basis and we would not recommend taking it seriously.

And yet you can’t brush aside the whole sea. In many seaside towns A very large part of the territory lies 30–60 centimeters below sea level. In addition, as the sea rises, it washes away the shores more intensely with breaking and storm waves and, as a result, can “eat” them more than can be expected from these seemingly small 32 centimeters. Don't forget one more thing - sea level will not stop rising in 2100, but will continue to rise for hundreds of years until CO 2 returns to its previous level.

The process of “eating” sushi has already begun. Reef mosaic-tailed rat on Bramble Cay Papua New Guinea In 2016, it was declared extinct due to rising sea levels. Its low island began to be flooded too much by storms, raising the water noticeably above normal levels. The unfortunate unique species of rodent is banal until the last specimen.

How fast is the Earth's landmass shrinking?

Common sense tells us that if the sea advances, then the land area should decrease. As is often the case, common sense is wrong.

According to satellite images, water reclaimed 115,000 square kilometers from land between 1986 and 2016. But the onset of the sea has nothing to do with it. It took only 20,135 square kilometers - less than a fifth. Lakes that formed on the site of former Himalayan glaciers, as well as ordinary lakes and rivers that became fuller due to more precipitation, have conquered much more area. After all, an increase in global temperatures inevitably leads to an increase in evaporation, and all evaporated water must fall somewhere - which is why precipitation will continue to increase.

During the same time, land took away 173,000 square kilometers from the sea (a full percentage of Russia's territory). As a result, the total area of ​​the earth's surface is 58,000 square kilometers. But this is larger than the territory of Croatia and approximately equal to Latvia. How did this happen?

The answer to this question is obvious. Rising temperatures and evaporation levels mean that areas where there used to be swamps are gradually drying up. When temperatures were lower, the water did not have time to evaporate from there, but after warming, it began to do so. As a result, rivers, lakes and reservoirs close to them reduce their area. For example, in the Ob basin, the area of ​​water has decreased by three thousand square kilometers over 30 years. Of course, this will not continue indefinitely - after the depletion of Siberian-type swamps, the process will inevitably stop.

The advance of the sea is an unplanned consequence of human activity. However, in addition to random, thoughtless actions, a person sometimes takes deliberate actions. Rarely, but it happens. Among them is irrigation, which takes water from lakes and reservoirs (just remember the former Aral Sea). Due to this factor and the retreat of rivers and swamps in waterlogged regions, the land gained almost 140 thousand square kilometers.

There is still some strengthening left sea ​​shores, as well as the deliberate expansion by man of land at the expense of the sea. They took 33,700 square kilometers. That is, in the struggle between sea and land, the earth's firmament leads with a score of 34:20.

In general, the forecast is disappointing. The advance of the sea will continue to lead to a reduction in its area and an expansion of land areas. What’s even worse is that the forces of nature itself have already begun to join this process.

Natural expansion of land

The fact is that the land on which we live is something like foam formed when cooking broth. The earth's mantle acts as a broth, incredibly heated and filled with rising hot currents. It lifts up lighter rocks, and it is these that form the continental crust, floating on top of the global ocean of magma. Ice at the poles and on mountain glaciers appeared in noticeable quantities geologically recently - even 40 million years ago there was much more CO 2 in the Earth’s air, so there was no permanent ice at the poles.

After the formation of ice caps, they began to put pressure with their mass on the continental crust near the poles, and it began to “sink” - to sink lower into the mantle. That is why the Antarctic Lake Vostok, which arose as a reservoir on the surface of the Earth, today is half a kilometer below sea level - this is how this area was “pressed” down by four kilometers of ice accumulated above it.

Let's go back to today. Global warming, caused by human negligence, is leading to the melting of ice. Because of it, Greenland becomes a trillion tons a year lighter - and sooner or later this will lead to the fact that the island will stop “sinking” and begin to “float”. Then the area of ​​its hard rocks located above sea level will begin to grow noticeably. Fortunately, this process is long-term, so those living today will not experience it. However, future generations will inevitably have to face it.

There is another unpleasant mechanism by which nature itself increases the land area. As already Life, rising sea levels lead to the advance of breaking waves onto the shore. If there are no “dragging” currents near the shore, then there is nothing to carry away sand and other solid particles from the shore being eroded by the waves. As a result, the surf carries them back to the shore - but already higher than they were before the surf. This process has already increased the area of ​​Tuvalu by 2.9 percent (for 1971–2014). Considering that the process of sea invasion is at the very beginning, many more ocean islands can expect an increase in area.

Another mechanism for the natural growth of continents is river sediment. Back in the period Ancient Egypt the modern Nile Delta was a sea. But the waters of the Nile intensively eroded its banks and brought a lot of sedimentary rocks, gradually “washing out” the modern Nile delta. As the planet's temperatures and precipitation increase, water erosion will increase. More rain inland will produce more particles, which rivers carry to the shores of the seas. They will create new delta islands, and the sea will become even smaller.

Why is the United States, on the one hand, “afraid” of drowning, and on the other hand, prohibits the taking of land from the sea?

Once upon a time in the States there were no legal restrictions on the reconquest of land from the sea - and then this country was actively involved in such things. For example, the main part of the city of San Francisco was the sea, the shores of which were extended into the sea by private developers - for example, dredgers, special courts, extracting wet soil from the seabed and washing it onto the shore.

As often happens with private initiative not limited by the state, things went uphill. It quickly became clear that the cost of a hectare of land is port city noticeably higher than the cost of reclamation of a hectare of land off the coast. By the 1960s, there was a very real danger of the disappearance of San Francisco Bay - the greed of private developers was reducing its area so quickly that the townspeople became seriously worried.

A movement was created, which, as its name suggests, aimed to preserve the bay. Moreover, by that time its area had increased from 1800 to 1000 square kilometers. The results of the struggle are impressive - since then the attack on the sea there has stopped. And this - best illustration of how much the “advance of the sea” really worries the people of the United States.

What will really happen

Apocalyptic pictures of drowned cities have very little relation to reality. Even without any centralized action at the US federal level major cities This country is threatened very little by the sea. Coastal cities are already constantly building dams, dams or artificial beaches (all the beaches of Miami are like this, for example). It is inexpensive, but during storms, when the water level rises by meters, it greatly reduces the scale of destruction. All this coastal protection infrastructure is constantly being updated, and as sea levels rise by 3.2 millimeters per year, it will gradually adapt to this increase.

Some kind of flooding is possible only where the state is centralized, but at the same time so weak that it does not take any measures to protect against storms at all. There are no such strange states in the world yet. Even Bangladesh, for which the greens often prophesy death in the waves, in fact. Yes, in theory it can be assumed that if Russia again falls into a coma, as in 1917–1921 or in 1991–1999, then it is quite possible that it will not be able to respond to rising sea levels. In practice this is unrealistic. The Time of Troubles here does not last longer than tens of years, and during this time the onset of the water element will not have time to lead to significant consequences.

In addition, we must understand that global warming will be accompanied by an increase in population density in the northern regions of the country. If today's forecasts are correct, then by the end of this century Murmansk will have the climate of modern Yaroslavl, or even Moscow. Obviously, a more developed and populated coast will be much easier to protect with dams - construction capacity will be closer.

Nevertheless, this is not a reason to do nothing. In our country there are very sparsely populated regions with low coastlines - such as some coastal areas of Yamal and the coast of the Arctic Ocean in general. There is practically no strong surf that could “raise” the coastline, like Tuvalu. There is little infrastructure there, and without it and the gradual rise of the coastline, the sea will flood large areas even before the federal government comes to its senses and develops some kind of action plan. Considering how “suddenly” winter is coming in our cities for city authorities, there is no doubt that the reaction to the flooding of the shores of the Russian Arctic will also be somewhat delayed.

However, once the state realizes the existence of such a problem, combating it will not be too difficult. A sea level rise of 0.32 meters over a hundred years may sound like a big problem - after all, Russia has about 40 thousand kilometers of coastline (however, some of them are quite high). But if the efforts to protect the banks are distributed evenly, the equivalent of only four hundred kilometers of dams per year will have to be built. A dam as high as a school ruler. The main thing is to start early.

The US East Coast faces increased flooding in the future. This conclusion was reached by scientists from the University of Bonn, the Universities of South Florida and Rhode Island.

The states of Virginia, North and South Carolina, according to them, face the greatest risk. Their coastal regions are sinking at a rate of approximately 3 mm per year, primarily due to anthropogenic factors. The study was published in the journal Scientific Reports, which belongs to the Nature publishing group.

Flooding in East Coast cities such as Miami has already become a very common occurrence. They are caused by hurricanes such as Katrina or the modern Harvey and Irma, but these cities are often flooded on sunny and relatively calm days. Although this does not result in casualties, it does cause damage to homes and infrastructure and impede traffic flow. We are talking about the so-called “nuisance flooding”.

Scientists have come to the conclusion that in the future these “troubles” will only become more frequent. An international team of scientists used GPS and satellite data to study the geophysical parameters of the East Coast. It turned out that it was slowly but steadily sinking into the Atlantic Ocean.

“There are at least two reasons for this phenomenon,” explains scientist Makan Karegar from the University of South Florida (now a visiting researcher at the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation at the University of Bonn). “During the last ice age, about 20 thousand years ago, a large part of Canada was covered by an ice sheet This gigantic mass of ice pressed on the continent, forcing it to sink in the central part and at the same time rise in the coastal regions. When the glacier melted, this process began. reverse side, and now East Coast, on the contrary, submerge under water. This has been going on for several millennia.”

However, this geological effect only partially explains the flooding of coastal regions. Indeed, during the last decade, the subsidence of the area between 32 and 38 degrees latitude occurred much faster than during the previous thousand years, and in some parts it reached a speed of 3 mm per year. Melting ice sheets are responsible for only a third of this figure.

Scientists believe that the reason for this is intensive extraction of groundwater. Water, like carbon dioxide bubbles in a cake, causes some of the land to rise up. “Groundwater holds back land subsidence. Without them, the earth shrinks even faster,” says Makan Karegar.

Many cities on the American East Coast were founded in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The researchers calculated that due to the glacier effect alone, these cities now lie about 45 cm lower than four hundred years ago. In recent years, they have sank much faster in some places due to groundwater withdrawal. The next factor is rising sea levels due to global warming.

This growth, according to scientists, should greatly accelerate in the future. “Even if groundwater drainage is reduced, flooding will continue to increase,” warns Karegar. - The amount of money spent on restoring damaged infrastructure will also only grow. Therefore, it is logical to assume that it is in the interests of the United States to combat climate change with all its resources.”

It's time for humanity to say goodbye to the sinking Amsterdam, Venice, Tripoli, Yokohama and the Maldives

The level of the World Ocean is rising due to climate change, and this process can no longer be stopped, write Katerina Bogdanovich and Alexey Bondarev.

Englishman James Dixon is one of the few who believes Maldives an excellent place for real estate investment. It would seem that there is nothing strange here, because this chain of picturesque coral islands in the Indian Ocean is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. And the number of people wishing to spend their holidays in the Maldives is growing every year.

In fact, all these people are rushing to visit the Maldives before they drown, laughs Dixon, the owner of a small British IT company, who is thinking about retiring and moving away from the bustle of the City of London. And the fact that the Maldives will be one of the first victims of global warming adds a special twist to his plans.

The Briton carefully monitors the latest climate forecasts and believes that the Maldives will have enough “buoyancy” reserves to last for his lifetime.

However, when planning to invest in the purchase of a plot on the islands, he is aware that for his children the benefits of such an inheritance will be very doubtful.

In the middle of the century it will be possible to begin to say goodbye to Bermuda and some others island states. Warming will also hit Europe.

Climatologists predict several global scenarios for rising sea levels. And even the most optimistic one, according to which this figure will increase by only 1.5-2.0 m by the end of the century, still assumes humanity’s farewell to the Maldives.

More pessimistic (and at the same time more reliable, according to some experts) scenarios suggest that many of the picturesque atolls will be below sea level in just a few decades.

Dixon is convinced that just then it will be possible to earn extra money at some small hotel in the Maldives. “If the flow of tourists to the Maldives has increased in recent years simply because the country has become more in the news due to flooding, then imagine what will happen when the islands actually begin to go under water,” says Dixon.

The flooding of the Maldives is happening slowly, so tourists have nothing to fear, the Briton notes, but there will be a great temptation to come every year to see if your favorite restaurant has already been flooded.

And the Maldives is not the only victim that humanity will make to global warming. In the middle of the century it will be possible to begin to say goodbye to Bermuda and some other island countries. Warming will also hit Europe.

The pride of Italy, the famous Venice, continues to sink: according to the latest data, this is happening at a rate of 2 to 4 mm per year, and the process, contrary to previous studies, has not stopped for a year. Immersion in the waters of the Adriatic frightens the residents of Venice and local authorities, but has a beneficial effect on the local travel business: the news that the city was drowning appeared in March of this year, and already in April, prices in Venetian hotels soared by 52%, reaching an average of 239 euros per day - the same cost of accommodation in Geneva hotels, recognized as the most expensive in Europe.

In total, by 2100, at least 100 million people will have to be resettled away from the advancing waves.

Those who are deterred from pursuing elusive beauty by modest budgets may be comforted by the fact that the fate of Venice and the Maldives will sooner or later befall most of the planet.

By the end of the century, rising ocean levels will seriously edit the world map. In addition to the Maldives, Bermuda and Venice, entire pieces of the current US coastline, a significant part of Holland, and large areas in Italy, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Spain. China and Japan will suffer greatly from the advance of the ocean - Shanghai and Yokohama will be flooded. Warming will also not spare Ukraine: the Black Sea threatens to swallow Kerch, Feodosia, Yevpatoria and Odessa.

In total, by 2100, at least 100 million people will have to be relocated away from the advancing waves. Humanity will feel the first consequences of this process in the coming decades.

“Sea level rise is an invisible tsunami that gathers strength while we do nothing,” warns Ben Strauss, a spokesman for the research organization Climate Central. “We are running out of time to prevent the worst consequences of the “big water.”

Irreversible process

Kenneth Miller, a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, believes that the rise of modern oceans will engulf the world's coastlines and harm 70% of the world's population.

Last year, a report by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, a scientific group of about 100 climate scientists from eight countries, said that by the end of the next century, sea levels will rise by 1.6 m compared with 1990.

In the coming centuries, sea levels will rise by 4-6 m due to the fact that Antarctic and Greenland glaciers are melting like pieces of ice on the sidewalk in the summer heat

Further more. “Sea levels will rise 4 to 6 meters in the coming centuries as Antarctic and Greenland glaciers melt like pieces of ice on a sidewalk in the summer heat,” paints a depressing picture from Jeremy Weiss, a senior research fellow in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Arizona. .

To be fair, it is worth noting that it is not only human activity that warms the atmosphere, and with it the World Ocean. In April of this year, another leak of methane, a gas along with carbon dioxide “responsible” for the greenhouse effect, was discovered at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean.

Scientists have noticed huge bubbles rising from under the water, up to 1 thousand meters in diameter, before, but the fact that they are becoming more and more in number indicates an alarming relationship: warming is melting underwater permafrost, and gas deposits are being released from under the ice, which accelerates warming.

water world

Besides Venice and the Maldives to “ big water” many other major and famous cities and states.

Danger lurks not only on islands lost in the endless expanses of the heaving World Ocean. Melting ice will be catastrophic for continental states as well.

By 2050, the famous island resorts of Tuvalu and Kiribati may be completely submerged.

Climatologists predict a bleak future for Miami, New Orleans and several hundred other coastal cities in the United States. According to a recent study by scientists from the University of Arizona, even if sea levels rise “only” by 1 m by the end of the century (and this is an incredibly optimistic forecast), all these cities will suffer serious damage. And a much more realistic 1.5-2.0 m increase to the current water level will be disastrous for them.

“The consequences of rising sea levels could include soil erosion, flooding and permanent inundation,” Weiss warns. Strauss adds New York to the “wet list” and argues that South Florida is at greatest risk.

Asia will not escape significant destruction. Huge areas in China will be flooded, including the area where the giant metropolis of Shanghai is located. Brazil and Argentina in South America will be seriously affected.

The flood will not bypass Ukraine either: the list of probable victims includes, in particular, the Crimean cities of Feodosia and Kerch. Ukrainian scientists also name other objects. “Even today, Evpatoria and Odessa are suffering from rising sea levels,” says Yuriy Goryachkin, senior researcher at the Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Already today, Evpatoria and Odessa are suffering from sea level rise

According to scientists, a rise in water of 2 m will leave 48 million Asians, 15 million Europeans, 22 million people homeless South America and 17 million in the North, as well as 11 million inhabitants of the African continent, 6 million Australians and 440 thousand islanders in Pacific Ocean. In subsequent centuries, when the water rises by 4-7 m, even more frightening consequences can be expected.

However, according to some experts, the possibility of a faster development of events cannot be ruled out. Most current estimates are tied to a forecast of a 2°C increase in average annual temperatures. However, in the spring of this year, a group of scientists from the USA and Europe published a forecast according to which we need to talk not about 2°C by 2100, but about 3 0C by 2050. Calculations and forecasts are presented on the website climateprediction.net.

The Kyoto Protocol has not worked, and the main culprits of pollution - the United States, India and China - have so far only declared their intentions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, researchers say. It is too late. Pessimistic forecasts show that sea levels could rise by 7 m within 100-150 years. Then not only Venice, Shanghai and Miami will be under water, but also Copenhagen, Yokohama, Tripoli and most of southern Ukraine.

Rescue of drowning people

Confronting global warming is akin to fighting windmills, says Canadian columnist Mike Flynn. Whether it's big industrialists who don't want their profits to shrink, or methane reserves on the ocean floor rushing to freedom, it's about fighting relentless enemies, Flynn says.

In his opinion, the authorities of the Maldives did the right thing by opening a special account in 2008 to which part of the income from tourism will be transferred. These funds will be used to purchase land in Australia or India.

“We need to save for a rainy day,” former President Mohamed Nasheed explained this decision. “So that if one of the citizens wants to move from here, he will have such an opportunity.”

Official negotiations on the possible resettlement of 350 thousand islanders have not yet begun, and residents of other sinking islands - the Pacific Nauru and Tuvalu - have already lined up for Australian plots. And in April, the authorities of the Kiribati atoll began negotiations with the Fiji government on the purchase of 2.5 thousand hectares of land.

“We hope we don't have to move everyone to this piece of land, but if it becomes absolutely necessary, we will do it,” said Anote Tong, leader of the 103,000 Kiribatis.

In Europe, the approach to solving the problem is different. By 2014, construction of MOSE should be completed in Venice - new system protection consisting of mobile sluices and capable of withstanding a water rise of up to 3 m (current hydraulic structures are designed only for a 1.1-meter flood).

Dutch scientists are also involved in the development of dams: in a country where most of the territory is below sea level, this issue plays a vital role.

“The lives of millions in our country depend on how effectively the system of dams and other barrier structures works,” says Guus Stelling, an employee of the Deltares research institute.

No measures are being taken either in Odessa or Yevpatoria, and no one is going to do this

The Flood Control 2015 project, on which global technology corporations such as IBM are working together with Dutch engineers and scientists, will be able to prevent floods.

“Previously, a whole army of volunteers monitored the condition of the dams, but now special electronic sensors will be used,” describes the essence of the project, Peter Drieke, an employee of Arcadis, one of the development companies.

“The powerful are always to blame for the powerless.” And today the United States is considered so strong throughout the world. On the other hand, with their boorish behavior and shameless lies, the American military and politicians seem to attract all the world's negativity to their country.

United Islands of America

American visionary doctor Lindsey predicted in the 1960s of the last century about a giant “convulsion” that would sweep across the United States. And the first victim state will be California - it will fall apart exactly along the 1,300-kilometer-long San Andreas transform fault, which runs between the North American and Pacific tectonic plates. At the same time, the southwestern piece will gradually plunge into the abyss of the ocean. Only a few islands will remain from the United States. In turn, this earthquake will cause a tsunami with waves of 50 meters that will engulf coastal cities. But this is only part of Dr. Lindsay’s predictions: it is noteworthy that as soon as he began to voice his terrible pictures that he saw through time and space, the intelligence services immediately silenced him, and the visions themselves were classified “to avoid panic among the population.”

He is echoed by another very famous American clairvoyant in the USA. Edgar Cayce, who prophesied the destruction of not only many states on both coasts that would sink to the bottom of the ocean, but also territories in the middle of America. Megacities such as New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles will disappear from the face of the earth. The same thing will happen to Georgia, the Carolinas and many other states that will become seabed.

“I see huge waves swallowing New York and breaking skyscrapers like straws,” admitted another American clairvoyant John Schmidt. “Florida, California and many other coastal states will go under water.”

Bible prophecies

You will say - these are just people, they can dream anything. Then let's turn to other, more authoritative predictions. So, John the Theologian in his “Revelation” he spoke about the death of the most powerful, rich and influential country in the world, which spreads the ideology of sin and war everywhere. He prophesies to her the disintegration into three islands. True, he called it “Babylon”. However, it does not take an extremely perceptive person to understand what kind of empire he had in mind.

Prophecies of the abbess and abbess Hildegard of Bingen, who lived 900 years ago and was revered as a saint, also speak of the unenviable fate of a distant nation. The American continent itself had not yet been discovered, and even then she predicted for the great people living overseas, and for the land inhabited by different tribes with different skin colors, a terrible earthquake, tidal waves and hurricanes that would destroy everything in their path. “This people,” states the Doctor of the Church (such an honorary title was awarded to Hildegard), “will face great misfortunes at sea - after all, almost all of this land will go under water.”

Our monk also predicted this fate for America Gilaron: “Due to the devastating earthquake and flood great empire beyond the sea the end will come - only islands will remain from it.”

“The American nation has long since gone from being simply stupid to being a veritable stench in the nostrils of God and a disgusting monster. The Lord told me that America is destined to fall to its knees: it will be a terrible sight - a fallen superpower, the American predicts Thomas Descartes. — The streets of America will be filled with riots and blood. And the people of the United States themselves will watch as their children and loved ones die of starvation.”

"The Yankees will turn into real beasts"

The American seer also speaks about terrible unrest Dannion Brickley: “The Yankees will turn into real animals and begin to live according to the laws wolf packs, having lost faith in his country and American ideals. Endless racial conflicts will begin and civil wars everyone against everyone. Riots will become commonplace. Chaos will come to the land of America."

The American clairvoyant also had terrible visions Valdez Jr., who talked about “flocks” of hundreds of flying people, whom a hurricane wind, like locusts, lifted up and smashed and flattened against skyscrapers, about mountains of corpses and simply pieces of bodies without legs, arms, or heads.

In general, out of several dozen disastrous predictions widely known in the world regarding global catastrophes and cataclysms, 80 percent relate to the fate of America. In second place are prophecies related to Great Britain. The third is the Apennine Peninsula. And here’s what’s remarkable: there is a complete lack of positivity in the predictions related to the fate of America. If other countries, judging by the prophecies, at the very least, but still “come around”, climb out of the abyss and ultimately continue to exist. As for the United States, the forecast of prophets, clairvoyants, soothsayers and psychics is the same - inevitable death. It will simply be swept off the face of the earth into the sea. Moreover, the picture of what will happen to America often coincides in people who are completely unfamiliar with each other and living in different times, down to the smallest detail - and this says a lot.

It is impossible to ignore one more fact that speaks for itself: among the predictors promising a deplorable fate for the United States, there are a lot of Americans - they seem to sense on a subtle level what will happen in the future to the land on which a person was born and to which he is connected by an invisible umbilical cord . This also confirms the high probability of the predictions made by the Americans themselves. Although there is a large percentage of those of us who, perhaps rightly, believe that the future is unknown to anyone. It’s not for nothing that they say (sometimes with good reason): if you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. So we have to wait. So we'll wait and see.