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A new map from Climate Central shows how the water will flow into hundreds of US cities under the best and worst global warming scenarios. It uses data from an accompanying study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that links CO2 to sea level rise to the topographic contours of the coastal US…
Original Study: “Carbon choices determine US cities committed to futures below sea level” PNAS
Sea level rise will swallow Miami, New Orleans: study, AFP
No matter what we do to curb global warming, these and other beloved US cities will sink below rising seas, according to a study Monday. But making extreme carbon cuts and moving to renewable energy could save millions of people living in iconic coastal areas of the United States, said the findings in the October 12 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
Disastrous Sea Level Rise Is an Issue for Today’s Public – Not Next Millennium’s, Huffington Green (07-28-2015)
The bottom line message scientists should deliver to policymakers is that we have a global crisis, an emergency that calls for global cooperation to reduce emissions as rapidly as practical…
“If All The Ice Melt,” Interactive Map, National Geographic (09-2013)
Video: “What the Earth Would Look Like if all the Ice Melted” Business Insider (04-08-2015)
As National Geographic showed us in 2013, sea levels would rise by 216 feet if all the land ice on the planet were to melt. This would dramatically reshape the continents and drown many of the world’s major cities…
Here Are 10 Striking Images of Future Sea Levels, Climate Central (07-11-2015)
