The Geography of Melting

“Last Month’s Atlantic Monthly Magazine had an eye-opening map and article related to what’s going on in the Arctic. Instead of focusing solely on melting ice caps and struggling polar bears, the article demonstrated what the geo-political consequences are in the region due to global warming. One of the consequences has been the permanent opening for the legendary Northwest Passage.”

http://blogs.edf.org/climateatlas/

Greenland Melt May Swamp LA, Other Cities, Study Says

“Greenland’s massive ice sheet could begin to melt this century and may disappear completely within the next thousand years if global warming continues at its present rate.

According to a new climate change study, the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet would raise the oceans by seven meters (23 feet), threatening to submerge cities located at sea level, from London to Los Angeles. “

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State unprepared for effects of warming, report says

“Despite its tough goals to reduce greenhouse gases, California is not prepared to deal with the flooding, coastal erosion and loss of wildlife habitat that scientists are predicting in the coming decades as a result of higher global temperatures, a new report says.”

See the entire article here

Animated Flooding Maps – Storm Surge, Sea Level Rise And River Flooding

“A while back, I did a post on assessing the effects of sea level rise on coastlines using the program 3DEM. Here’s a terrain image of southern Manhattan Island at current sea level . . . “

“And here’s what it would look like with 8 meters of flooding, due either to a hurricane storm surge or global-warming-induced sea level rise . . . “

http://freegeographytools.com/2007/animated-flooding-maps-storm-surge-sea-level-rise-and-river-flooding

CEGIS Sea Level Rise Map Video

“Video of map of the impact of potential sea level at increasing depth.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2fg5PaHcUI

Sea Level Rise Animation in Google Earth

“Climate change and increased atmospheric temperatures are predicted to cause a significant rise in sea level over the next 100-200 years. Scenarios that take into account rapid melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet and West Antarctic Ice Shelf warn of sea level rise of greater than 20 ft (6 meters) over the next couple centuries. This animation shows what that level of rise would look like over a couple seconds. It uses very course scale global elevation data to visualize a rising sea affect, but should be considered highly accurate.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgCYhU5ISwI&NR=1

Maps for “An End to Global Warming”

“Laurence Williams’ book “An End to Global Warming” (see also the Elsevier page), I created a series of maps showing the possible effects of rising sea levels; they were used for the book cover and interior illustrations.

The maps were derived from the GTOPO30 dataset, a 30 arc-second resolution digital map of global topography. Border data came from the NIMA Vector Map Level 0. “

http://resumbrae.com/archive/warming/

Sea Level Rise Maps and GIS Data

This map shows sea level rise among other data for specific parts of the globe.

https://www.cresis.ku.edu/research/data/sea_level_rise/index.html

DGESL: Sea Level Rise

View what the Earth would look like with 1m – 6m sea level rises. Fascinating stuff!

http://geongrid.geo.arizona.edu/arcims/website/slrworld/viewer.htm

Global Warming Art: Check it Out!

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Global_Warming_Art:Embedding_Sea_Level_Images