Is Climate Change TRULY That Bad?
Climate change, is unavoidable in this day and age. You can see it all around you, if you know where to look. Don't look up. According to NASA's earth observatory, with melting ice caps and glaciers in the coldest regions of our planet, utilizing current measurements, the sea level rise is estimated to be 43 to 49 inches by the year 2080. A rise of 4 feet.
Using NASA's Sea Level Rise simulation, a rise of 4 feet can represent untold devastation in areas in terms of property damage and human damage.
Miami Beach and the Miami cost area are completely inundated by the year 2080. |
New Orleans, if infrastructure to keep it safe is kept up and built upon, will stand as a lone city state surrounded by water. Similarly to Venice and Mont St.-Michel in the present day. |
Now, while that might not look bad to you, if we do not stop our fossil fuel usage and cut back on pumping massive amounts of gas into our atmosphere, the sea level could see a rise of up to 10 feet.
This amount of water would be catastrophic, and would change the face of our planet and our civilization forever.
Boston is completely lost to the sea, surrounding areas are at the water's mercy. |
A large chunk of the Floridian coast line becomes apart of the Atlantic. Miami, including any close surrounding urban area sits under trillions of tons of water. |
If the infrastructure holds, New Orleans will become beacon and a dark paragon of the devastating force of human-made climate change. |
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