If the Earth's ice melted...

[Red Commissar]

This is a interesting little thing I saw in an issue of national geographic. It's based on a NASA projection if the polar ice melted and it's effects on sea levels. Of course this is more of a nightmare scenario taking all the possibilities to the extreme, but still it's pretty cool. The image and some explanations are in the link.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-graphic


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http://s.ngm.com/2013/09/rising-seas/img/rising-seas-2000.jpg

[Skyhilist]

It's hard for me to think of this stuff as "pretty cool". It mainly just scares the shit out of me.

[Brutus]

My town gets flooded according to the map.

[Comrade Jacob]

Cuba! NOOOOOOO!
Well...at least Antarctica looks habitable.
Also all home has been destroyed along with my memories.

[Questionable]

Cuba! NOOOOOOO!

What will the modern left cling to now?! We'll have to find another pseudo-leftist country to make ourselves seem more relevant!

[GiantMonkeyMan]

How the hell can NASA get Brussels and Amsterdam mixed up? D:

[Fourth Internationalist]

I can't tell whether or not my home is gonna be gone because it's not detailed enough. I live right on the water though so I probably will be anyways.

Edit: Would the capitalists let this happen for profit? They must really love their great great grandchildren. A big old fuck you generations before they're born.

[TheIrrationalist]

It is a real issue, as ice caps are melting on accelerating rate, and most of the biggest cities in the world are close to water.


What will the modern left cling to now?! We'll have to find another pseudo-leftist country to make ourselves seem more relevant!

Thankfully North Korea survives.

[Art Vandelay]

Ya'll can come chill with me in central Canada, if this shit goes down.

[Sea]

What will the modern left cling to now?! We'll have to find another pseudo-leftist country to make ourselves seem more relevant!If only clinging to Cuba actually did that.... :crying:

[Red Commissar]

How the hell can NASA get Brussels and Amsterdam mixed up? D:

The map itself is theirs, the labelling and such is National Geographic's deal. Hopefully some of their readers have corrected them.

[piet11111]

How the hell can NASA get Brussels and Amsterdam mixed up? D:

Clearly the effects of such a melt-off are far more disastrous then previously imagined :laugh:

[PC LOAD LETTER]

In a sort of protracted, dark dialectic dance, New Orleans will finally become one with the Gulf of Mexico. Poetic, really.

[RedBen]

this does raise important questions especially because of climate change. i live in the midwest, us. so personally i would not be flooded the way the coast's of countries would but it would have tragic consequences for our brothers and sisters near coat lines. i agree with the "scares the shit out of me" comment. i used to make fun of environmentalists... needless to say i don't now:crying:

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

britain looks fine, unless i'm looking at the wrong map :S

[Brutus]

britain looks fine, unless i'm looking at the wrong map :S

I think I'm submerged...

[Decolonize The Left]

The issue isn't really the rising sea levels as we're talking about years upon years, rather, it is the rising average temperature of the planet. I think this brings with it too many unknowns in regards to local climates, larger biospheres, and general health of life.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

britain looks fine, unless i'm looking at the wrong map :S

Hull definitely won't be, even now if there's a heavy shower I get my swimming trunks and a snorkel out just in case

[Nemo]

Edit: Would the capitalists let this happen for profit? They must really love their great great grandchildren. A big old fuck you generations before they're born.

Most probably. There's a tendency to buy into industries that "benefit the economy," with disregard to the fact that they are simultaneously and systematically destroying the biosphere. I'm sure the "economy" will be marvelous when air is unbreathable and the world's major cities are underwater.

[Hexen]

Edit: Would the capitalists let this happen for profit? They must really love their great great grandchildren. A big old fuck you generations before they're born.

Of course they will and they don't care because the entire capitalist system is constructed around their own self serving narcissism and nothing else matters which it all boils down to self-preservation in the end.

[Zergling]

The issue isn't really the rising sea levels as we're talking about years upon years, rather, it is the rising average temperature of the planet. I think this brings with it too many unknowns in regards to local climates, larger biospheres, and general health of life.As a guy who enjoys the cold weather, the idea of no longer having freezing temperatures really upsets me. :(

[TaylorS]

No more Bangladesh. Or Denmark. or Holland. Or Florida.