Your City Under Water

A new study is using visualizations of images, videos and animations to show the devastating effects climate change and sea level rise could have worldwide if nothing is done to intervene. “We wanted to highlight the big picture here,” Benjamin Strauss, CEO at the nonprofit organization Climate Central and the study’s lead author,“and the hundreds of years of unremitting sea level rise that we set in motion depending on what we do.” The study states that were the average global temperature to rise by 3 degrees Celsius on its current trajectory, the ice sheets will melt, releasing an amount of water capable of covering land that 10 percent of the global population inhabits. Strauss hopes the visualizations that accompany the study will resonate with the public to make a change to alter the outcome while they still can.

Source: The Hill