Maps of what the earth could look like in the future.

[Yeoman]

I'm not sure if this is useful or not, or even in the correct forum, but I thought it may interest some people.

I suppose it could be useful if you wanted to write something about Earth in the future, and wanted to play around with climate/sea levels, it would especially help with locations though if climate had effected 'your earth' and you weren't sure what would be flooded or not.


This is what Europe could look like with 100m sea level rise. Scary!


Flood Maps
This is particularly interesting, you can flood the world up to a depth of 14 metres, it seems(quite scary) that most of the Netherlands is gone after just a 1 meter raise.
(really good that, you can go in and view your street)
Some more not as detailed but you can really push the extreames. Europe is pretty much desimated after 'just' a 200m rise, and its interesting how much extra land there is with a 100m decline in sea level.
Effect of sea level -- Europe - Europe
Effect of sea level -- World - Whole World
Effect of a change in sea level on worldwide topography


Global Warming maps

http://vrstudio.buffalo.edu/~depape/...pe100-6000.jpg

[thecommabandit]

That's a really nifty thing you found. I could have a few hours worth of fun playing with this =D It's really interesting that after only 300m most of Russia and Europe are gone, India's been turned into an island, Australia is now an archipelago, most of the Americas are flooded and western Africa has turned to a bunch of gigantic lakes.

[Yeoman]

yeah, after 300m its just a few islands left of Europe. though tbh, i'm not sure theres enough ice for a 300m rise, there'd have to be an awful lot melt.

[jackokent]

Being a resident of Gloucestershire this feels very real. Had to deliver water today to colleagues who may not have any for another week or more. How quickly things break down with no electricy and water.

[HardScienceFan]

my sympathies Jack
saw it on the news
Think GW has anything to do with it?
Good luck with all this hardship

[Leisha]

Of course it's the global warming. All the air currents have gone haywire, there are tornados up in the north of the UK, most of the south is flooded, Carlisle was flooded a couple of years ago (no one rushed to help us, which is quite unlike a certain flooded area in the south east), and we never get real seasons anymore. Now, unless someone can come up with a better explanation, I'm blaming GW. After all, I never saw such strange weather when I was little.


Yes, good luck, Jack. I hope all goes well for them -- and you.

[HappyHippo]

Isn't El Nino the current in vogue explanantion?

I think Global Warming is the only answer that makes any sense though.

Thanks, Yeoman, this is actually really handy for something I'm doing!

[Leisha]

I think Global Warming is the only answer that makes any sense though.

Same here. But at the same time we have another change occurring; apparently the sun is also not filtering through the greenhouse gasses properly, and it's causing the earth to cool down. The reason why we don't notice is because global warming is heating us up at the same time. So the Earth is balanced out, in a sense. I think they conducted tests on this "global cooling" and found that the temperature did indeed drop during 9/11, when America ground all of its aeroplanes. Scary! We'll suffer either way -- heating or cooling.

[HardScienceFan]

a map of Southern Europe during the Paleocene/Eocene, episode of global warming,ca 55 million years ago
Carbonate platforms are mostly reefs

No Tyrrhenian sea yet,of course,no "Italy",no Aegean

[jackokent]

Thanks for all the well wishes everyone, but I feel a bit of a fraud as I am absoluetly fine, I do have water, my house is on a hill, i have electric and to top it all my work place is closed for 2 weeks. So life for me has never been better

However feel very very sorry for all the people round me who are suffering. Especially people with families. There have been some realy disapointing scenes. In local stores people have actually fought over water. Also some people have cashed in on the misery and been selling water for £5 a bottle even though it's free at the collection points. There have also been incidents of vandalism of the water tanks. Some people are incredible

However, in the main, people have pulled together and worked round the clock and it's been an example of communities really showing thier good side.

[Yeoman]

Originally Posted by Leisha

Of course it's the global warming. All the air currents have gone haywire, there are tornados up in the north of the UK, most of the south is flooded, Carlisle was flooded a couple of years ago (no one rushed to help us, which is quite unlike a certain flooded area in the south east), and we never get real seasons anymore. Now, unless someone can come up with a better explanation, I'm blaming GW. After all, I never saw such strange weather when I was little.


Yes, good luck, Jack. I hope all goes well for them -- and you.

Britians unpredictable weather is getting even more unpredicatable, it seems thats the winters are both the warmest and coldest, as are the summers.
I even read a while ago, though I cannot remember where, that because of GW we could actually be heading for another ice age.

And of course good luck to all those in the flooded area, i'm counting myself lucky I in heanor and on a hill.


Did anyone watch the Top Gear Polar special, I missed it and only caught the last minute, but I got the jist that the presenters were trying to disprove global warming just because they could drive their humongous Gasoline Junkie Pick-up all the way to the north pole without falling into the sea. Have a brownie point on me.

[Soggyfox]

being that one of my main hobbies is Scuba diving, i look at these sea level rise predictions with glee, i really hate having to get up at 5.30 in the morning and drive for 2 hours to get to the sea, now if i could get up about 11.30 and fall out my front door things would be so much better.

[HardScienceFan]

Originally Posted by Soggyfox

being that one of my main hobbies is Scuba diving

cool hobby,Soggy,very cool

[KeskaMoriarty]

On the third link I raised the sea level up to 150m and most of Europe if gone. 200m and it's getting closer to Arkansas, my home.

[I, Brian]

There's a very bloody good reason I live in the Scottish Highlands now.

I lived in Hull until 2 years ago, and had problems getting house insurance due to flood risks. I always had a fear of being flooded while I lived in my last house there, especially as we were near a drain.

So when I actually bought a house in Scotland, I made damn sure we weren't on a floodplain, and not near a river which could flood. We now live on top of a small hill overlooking the sea, and the chances of flooding are seriously slim.

Less cheerfully, when Hull flooded in June this year, I got to see pics online of all the places I knew and lived around flooded.

My middle brother had it worse - not only was he flooded, but he'd been with the lad who died and got to watch it all. It was his street featured on the news when that happened.

Still, the thing about flooding is that we always knew flood plains were a risk. And having read years ago that the big danger for the UK from near global warming wasn't so much rising sea levels, as much as more frequent and heavier storms that would create serious localised flooding.

Hence the living on a hill now...