Remarkable Map: Will Climate Change Put You Underwater

[G_j]

http://billmoyers.com/content/2100-will-your-neighborhood-be-underwater/

Will Climate Change Put You Underwater?
September 27, 2013
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If we continue burning fossil fuels the way we do now sea levels will rise by three feet — and could rise by as much as five feet — by the year 2100. What does this mean for your favorite beach? The map here offers answers. Designed by a physics Ph.D. student, Robert A. Rohde, for his site Global Warming Art, it uses information from NASA to show which areas of America’s coastline will be hit the hardest.

Check out the potential fate of New York City, Miami and Sacramento. Like many other cities, large areas are predicted to be under water and some cities may be completely wiped out. And you can forget about a trip to the Bahamas — all the islands will be gone.

The map works like most Google maps. You can use the tools on the left or click and drag the map to navigate. Double click to zoom in. The different colors over potentially affected areas show the elevation of that area and how much the sea would need to rise to cover it. Those areas in red could be under water by the end of this century if we don’t change our fossil fuel consumption habits.

(Map at link above)

[FredStembottom]

1. They need to explain how to read it.

it's all alarming but depending on how one guesses how to read it, is it alarming! or alarming!!!!!!!!!
... or somewhere in between?

[A HERETIC I AM]

3. here;

The map works like most Google maps. You can use the tools on the left or click and drag the map to navigate. Double click to zoom in. The different colors over potentially affected areas show the elevation of that area and how much the sea would need to rise to cover it. Those areas in red could be under water by the end of this century if we don’t change our fossil fuel consumption habits.

[FredStembottom]

6. Thanks much.

Just couldn't find that.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Cool beans. With a little bit of dredging I could build a marina

Harbor Master, I like that title!

[msongs]

4. not but the California drive to the beach will be cut from one hour to about 15 minutes :-) nt

[tularetom]

5. Before anybody gets too complacent, those elevations appear to be in meters

[NickB79]

7. And after 2100?

People frequently forget that climate change doesn't miraculously stop at 2100, even though that's where most predictions end. A planet with 500-600ppm of CO2 will keep heating up for hundreds, if not thousands, of years to come.

The truly scary scenario is one where we start seeing uncontrollable positive-feedback cycles, like a mass thawing of the methane and CO2 locked up in the Arctic permafrost. At that point, it's pretty much game over.

[Uncle Joe]

8. That looks like a mega-serious mess.

Thanks for the thread, G_j.

[B Calm]

9. Republicans don't care, hell that's almost 90 years from now. They don't care!

[Warren DeMontague]

10. As I expected, y'all on the East Coast are fucked.

We have these nice cliffs on the Pacific side.

[Berlum]

12. Those rising waters will be fouled by vast quantities of industrial pollution

Fouled waters.

[ThomThom]

13. be nice to have a timeline to go with

us old people probably won't see much change

[hobbit709]

14. The beach will be about a half hour instead of 3 hours away.