Actually, less. If we imagine our landmass as a circle for simplicity's sake, and we shrink it, the length of its circumference will decrease.

Not that I expect Trump to have any math skills.

So he not only doesn't believe in climate change but he doesn't understand that a shape with smaller area will naturally have a smaller perimeter. There will be less oceanfront property, and less property over all. Dudes unqualified for 5th grade geometry, let alone the Presidency.

(I'm excluding the possibility that rising waters would make the shoreline more fuzzy/fractal. AFAIK that isn't the case.)

Why didn't elon use this more recent photo for the promo image?

I've never had this irresistible urge to smack someone upside the head with a textbook until now.

You can't delete climate change AND claim rising sea

"This smaller box is bigger than this bigger box" is peak truth-inverting fascism.

That he ended a the question means that he doesn't even know enough to say if he's right or wrong. He's grasping at words, something that he's both skilled at and not, since he usually grabbed the wrong ones.

everyone in here talking math but he's right. See the current beachfront property is all bought up, but with rising sea levels all that will be underwater, thus creating a whole new swath of beachfront property that if you were a billionaire you probably already own and could resell as beachfront property.

Not that I give a shit about what douchebag Trump says because he's bullshitting like usual, but to his credit it does bring up a neat math problem.

My best approximation of a comparison model would be something like this:

• Get an elevation survey of the coast of the continental US from a reliable and detailed enough source, like USGS. If you have waaay too much time on your hands you can include islands, Alaska, Hawaii, and outlying territories.
• Pick two levels above sea level to represent the before and after.
• Draw a line that corresponds to the first countour closest to the ocean that is at or exceeds the level you picked. Do this for the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts.
• Fully enclose the lines using the Canadian border in the northwest and northeast corners, and the Mexican border in the Southwest and Southeast.
• Repeat this step at the second selected level. Use the same corner points as previously to avoid distorting the results from the size of the continent. Draw the closest line from the border point to the corner point or the closest point along the Canada/Mexico lines if you want to avoid crossing over the shape.
• Find the difference in the areas between the two enclosed shapes.

Maybe some mapping softwares have functions that can do this relatively easily compared more manual methods.

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