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Researchers Predict What The World Will Look Like In 2050 If The Temperature Rises By 3°C (30 Pics)
We all know it, we all feel it. We are destroying our planet. Slowly but surely, the average global temperature is rising and melting all the ice on our planet, resulting in the water level rising. Soon, the water level will be so high it will cover cities and people's homes.
That's what the researchers at Climate Central wanted to show with their project. They took famous places we all know and love and showed how they may look in 2050 if the climate continues to worsen as it has been doing. By 2050, the global temperature will be 3°C higher and many cities near the coasts will be lost underwater. If we don't do anything, in just 30 years we will have devastating results.
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Plaza De La Catedral, Havana, Cuba
The Plaza is a mere two blocks from the waters of Havana Port. This rendering is very realistic.
On their website, Climate Central writes: "Climate and energy choices this decade will influence how high sea levels rise for hundreds of years. Which future will we choose?" Their main goal is to research the effects of climate change on our world. If we continue the way we are now, the future will be quite grim.
Lalbagh Fort, Dhaka, Bangladesh
I wish it will never happen. By the way, I live in front of it. I can see it from my room. 15-6166f8c9764a4.jpg
Washington Street, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
The science research website Iopscience wrote about this issue in more depth: "A portion of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions will stay in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, rising temperatures and sea levels globally. Most nations' emissions-reduction policies and actions do not seem to reflect this long-term threat, as collectively they point toward widespread permanent inundation of many developed areas. Using state-of-the-art new global elevation and population data, we show here that, under high emissions scenarios leading to 4○C warming and a median projected 8.9 m of global mean sea level rise within a roughly 200- to 2000-year envelope, 50 major cities, mostly in Asia, would need to defend against globally unprecedented levels of exposure, if feasible, or face partial to near-total extent area losses."
Statue Of Liberty National Monument, New York, New York, United States
Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
"Nationally, China, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, global leaders in recent coal plant construction, have the largest contemporary populations occupying land below projected high tide lines, alongside Bangladesh. We employ this population-based metric as a rough index for the potential exposure of the largely immovable built environment embodying cultures and economies as they exist today. Based on median sea-level projections, at least one large nation on every continent but Australia and Antarctica would face exceptionally high exposure: land home to at least one-tenth and up to two-thirds of the current population falling below the tideline. Many small island nations are threatened with near-total loss. The high tide line could encroach above land occupied by as much as 15 percent of the current global population (about one billion people). By contrast, meeting the most ambitious goals of the Paris Climate Agreement will likely reduce exposure by roughly half and may avoid globally unprecedented defense requirements for any coastal megacity exceeding a contemporary population of 10 million."
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, India
H.r. Macmillan Space Centre, Vancouver, Canada
Climate Center based their project on this research and created the images you see. On their website, you can even see a map of all the risk zones and choose the temperature you want. Then you can check out the country, region, or city you live in and see just how much it would get affected by the rising sea levels.
Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark
Space Center Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
Nationals Park, Washington D.c., District Of Columbia, United States
Temple Of Literature, Hanoi, Vietnam
Riverside Museum, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Tokyo Tower, Tokyo, Japan
The Royal Palace, Stockholm, Sweden
This really makes me sad...I mean just look at the shabby quality of the photoshopping...
Royal Pavilion, Brighton, United Kingdom
Downtown San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Queen Square, Bristol, United Kingdom
Lloyds Amphitheatre, Bristol, United Kingdom
El Dorado Park, Long Beach, California, United States
Tower Of London, London, United Kingdom
Lincoln Park, Newark, New Jersey, United States
Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.c., District Of Columbia, United States
Washington was a swamp originally and it will revert back to one someday...
Highway 2, Mayagüez, United States
King's College Chapel, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Burj Khalifa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Pentagon, Washington D.c., District Of Columbia, United States
Place Royale, Quebec City, Canada
California State Capitol Building, Sacramento, California, United States
Casino Marina Del Sol, Talcahuano, Chile
The Bell Tower, Perth, Australia
Note: this post originally had 50 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
This was so boring because they just put water over everything. Also the photoshopping was kinda bad
These photos are misleading because if the temperature rising 3 degrees, flooding is going to be the least of our problems. But people don't give a s**t. Everyone currently alive knows it's going to be bad, but they genuinely do not care, because they think it wouldn't impact them very badly when they're alive, and they don't really cares what happens after they're dead.
The OP took the current elevation of select places and added water to simulate what sea level rise will do to that area. If global temps continue to rise, all the glaciers and land ice will melt, flow into the sea, and flood coastal and low lying areas. With salt water. Which will make the land unusable and corrode everything. I never thought I would live long enough to become a climate refugee but it's looking like that will happen.
Agree with @boredpanDaman; some parts from Cuba and India completely submerged, but Sydney opera no?
On thing I don't like about these posts is the focus on sea level rise. Before it even gets to that point, there will be untold number of disasters, increasing in frequency each year. There are and will be more and more climate refugees (possibly from the SW US into the rest of the US). There will be famine and war. Taxes will go increasingly to pay for disaster relief and band-aid solutions (while the companies producing most of the greenhouse gasses continue to make profits).
2050 is an underestimation. When rain storms hit all those areas (with ever-increasing intensity and frequency), things will be much worse, as has already been seen in many parts of the planet.
Notice the British ones listed are all near water now, so not much of a change. Where is all this water coming from? Surely other areas must become drier to this to happen?. So many questions and no answers.
love how long island new york isnt on here but then again long island is already in trouble. florida too which i also didnt see on this list
The best thing about this fantasy presentation, is the comments it incites 🙂
There’s absolutely no valid scientific evidence that the warming will take place to that extent or that water levels will rise to that extent. I think someone has been had, LOL!
Please notice that this researchers work has nothing to do with reality. They are using the old mathimatical formula (cmip5). The one researchers use now, and have been using for quite a while, is cmip6 which gives a totally diferent result. See https://youtu.be/OCVXB-NG-uM
All very pretty, all very wrong. If all the sea ice melted, very little would happen in terms of sea level change. If all inland glaciers melted then a more significant change would occur, but it's all going to take centuries if not millennia so most of these buildings would be ruins by then anyway
They should have at least used winter pictures so the trees looked properly salt-struck and dead, and maybe smudged in some of the epic amounts of mold that would be growing on these buildings. These look too pretty; I want to grab a kayak and go sightseeing, not weatherize my house to reduce our consumption of natural gas. (A work in progress regardless, because I passed Chem 101 and understand the climate alarms.)
This stuff again? Researchers equals people photoshopping photos based on belief, not science. What happens if all the Big Government rules are not implemented and the above doesn't happen? Seville, Spain, is 22 feet above sea level. Dhaka, Bangladesh is 13 feet. Many others are 6+ feet. This is not going to happen. It's simply scaremongering. Meanwhile, few of the people who push this stuff are giving up their own use of fossil fuels and making their lives carbon neutral.
This was so boring because they just put water over everything. Also the photoshopping was kinda bad
These photos are misleading because if the temperature rising 3 degrees, flooding is going to be the least of our problems. But people don't give a s**t. Everyone currently alive knows it's going to be bad, but they genuinely do not care, because they think it wouldn't impact them very badly when they're alive, and they don't really cares what happens after they're dead.
The OP took the current elevation of select places and added water to simulate what sea level rise will do to that area. If global temps continue to rise, all the glaciers and land ice will melt, flow into the sea, and flood coastal and low lying areas. With salt water. Which will make the land unusable and corrode everything. I never thought I would live long enough to become a climate refugee but it's looking like that will happen.
Agree with @boredpanDaman; some parts from Cuba and India completely submerged, but Sydney opera no?
On thing I don't like about these posts is the focus on sea level rise. Before it even gets to that point, there will be untold number of disasters, increasing in frequency each year. There are and will be more and more climate refugees (possibly from the SW US into the rest of the US). There will be famine and war. Taxes will go increasingly to pay for disaster relief and band-aid solutions (while the companies producing most of the greenhouse gasses continue to make profits).
2050 is an underestimation. When rain storms hit all those areas (with ever-increasing intensity and frequency), things will be much worse, as has already been seen in many parts of the planet.
Notice the British ones listed are all near water now, so not much of a change. Where is all this water coming from? Surely other areas must become drier to this to happen?. So many questions and no answers.
love how long island new york isnt on here but then again long island is already in trouble. florida too which i also didnt see on this list
The best thing about this fantasy presentation, is the comments it incites 🙂
There’s absolutely no valid scientific evidence that the warming will take place to that extent or that water levels will rise to that extent. I think someone has been had, LOL!
Please notice that this researchers work has nothing to do with reality. They are using the old mathimatical formula (cmip5). The one researchers use now, and have been using for quite a while, is cmip6 which gives a totally diferent result. See https://youtu.be/OCVXB-NG-uM
All very pretty, all very wrong. If all the sea ice melted, very little would happen in terms of sea level change. If all inland glaciers melted then a more significant change would occur, but it's all going to take centuries if not millennia so most of these buildings would be ruins by then anyway
They should have at least used winter pictures so the trees looked properly salt-struck and dead, and maybe smudged in some of the epic amounts of mold that would be growing on these buildings. These look too pretty; I want to grab a kayak and go sightseeing, not weatherize my house to reduce our consumption of natural gas. (A work in progress regardless, because I passed Chem 101 and understand the climate alarms.)
This stuff again? Researchers equals people photoshopping photos based on belief, not science. What happens if all the Big Government rules are not implemented and the above doesn't happen? Seville, Spain, is 22 feet above sea level. Dhaka, Bangladesh is 13 feet. Many others are 6+ feet. This is not going to happen. It's simply scaremongering. Meanwhile, few of the people who push this stuff are giving up their own use of fossil fuels and making their lives carbon neutral.