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Climate change is going to ruin our vacations. Not only will it likely make our flights more uncomfortable, but our favorite destinations could be underwater--in a few hundred years anyway. Inspired by The New York Times's interactive project on sea level rise, Nickolay Lamm, a 24-year-old researcher and artist based in Pittsburgh, created this series of photo illustrations of the watery tourist traps of the future.
Currently, global sea levels are rising even faster than we've projected, according to recent studies. The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change estimates that seas will rise an average of 6.6 feet by 2100. Over the coming centuries, as temperatures rise and ice sheets melt, our oceans could rise as much as 20 or 30 feet.
This is what the Boston Harbor Hotel would look like under 25 feet of water:
South Beach: closer than ever.
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http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/how-popular-tourist-destinations-will-look-2125?src=SOC&dom=tw
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)Thanks for posting !
hunter
(38,326 posts)Or will our civilization be in such bad shape we let the waves take everything?
If it's the second, I'm trying to picture some of the fossilized sediments that might result, a million years from now.
There's going to be plenty of weird fossils anyways (landfills for example) but cities ripped apart and sorted by wave action will be quite distinctive.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Exultant Democracy
(6,594 posts)Should we have reduced our carbon consumption in time, yes. Is it too late to reduce our carbon consumption now, yes. It is too late to avert global warming, no.
Most of us wish we had taken the high road on this, but the low road is the path we will travel and it will be fine. People have been betting against humanity as long as we have records and they have been wrong 100% of the time.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)The Kuna a group of roughly 40,000 indigenous people living on dozens of islands off Panamas Caribbean coast were isolated, relying on the land and one another to sustain their communities. Most of the local fishermen spend their days coasting the sun-drenched waters in hand-carved dugout canoes, looking for lobsters and fish to sell at the local market.
In the evenings, they gather for several hours in congreso, a nightly meeting led by the community spiritual leader, where they worship and recite traditional songs. The lyrics are steeped in myths and metaphors acknowledging their ancestors and giving praise to their land.
But for the past several years, the congresos have taken a dark tone. After abnormally high tides hit the coast in 2008, hundreds of the Kuna were forced to move inland when their homes were destroyed by knee-deep floodwaters. According to studies by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, since 1910 the average sea level in Kuna Yala has risen by almost six inches, and is continuing to increase by roughly three-quarters of an inch annually. Many of the Kuna are beginning to fear that in the near future, their land will be completely submerged.
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The majority of the people think the island is disappearing, they speak about it a lot, he said. So they are putting these blockers up by the sea. They dont have engineers. They dont have concrete or cement. Instead they use garbage. Without proper understanding on how to build bags, they do whatever they think will work.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/the-eroding-culture-of-kuna-yala/
Exultant Democracy
(6,594 posts)If people actually cared about what happened on a tiny island of non-white people the last 400 years of human history would be strikingly different.
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)Maybe Art Deco will be in vogue again.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I oppose nuclear. We should be shutting down nuclear, not expanding it.
Ironically, Germany, bound by rivers and a tiny speck of ocean, was on to the danger of nuclear long before we have been. They will, however, have to suffer from our passion for the hot stuff.
merrily
(45,251 posts)The little museum in Fort Meyers, Florida has a map of Florida showing how wide its beaches were 50 or 100 years ago versus today. It impressed me more than anything else in the museum--and not in a good way.
If you see photos of the beaches of Atlantic City and Asbury Park at the turn of the century or the 1920s versus today, they are startling as well.
People in Cape Cod have had to buy mass quantities of sand to extend beaches to keep the ocean at bay (no pun intended), to postpone the day the waves lap at their back yards or front lawns.
patrice
(47,992 posts)power boat with someone going around the bottom of it.
True story and I've never seen that Boston hotel before.
loudsue
(14,087 posts)I hope we, as a planet, grow up before all that happens.
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)San Onofre is right on the beach. Scares me.
gateley
(62,683 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)the street from the ocean, that is not surprising. When I was a kid and my parents moved to Miami Beach, we lived in a hotel on the other side of the street. All I had to do was step out my door and I was on the beach.