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All underwater by 2055.
🇬🇧Liverpool
🇯🇵Tokyo
🇮🇳Kolkata
🇻🇳Hanoi
🇭🇰Hong Kong
🇧🇩Dhaka
🇺🇸New York
🇭🇲Darwin
🇰🇪Mombasa
🇸🇳Dakar
🇨🇳Guangzhou
🇳🇬Lagos
🇯🇵Osaka
🇦🇷Buenos Aires
🇲🇿Beira
🇮🇳Chennai
🇺🇸Boston
🇨🇳Shenzhen
🇬🇧London
All underwater by 2055.
“sea level rise of several meters...would mean loss of all coastal cities, most of the world’s large cities”.
'At the low end of this range, sea levels would rise by several meters as soon as 2050'.
Greenland & Antarctica melt rates seem to be expontial.scientificamerican.com/article/could-…
'At the low end of this range, sea levels would rise by several meters as soon as 2050'.
Greenland & Antarctica melt rates seem to be expontial.scientificamerican.com/article/could-…
Explore this thread including the interactive map (which doesn't take into consideration scientists' awareness that sea level rise could hit 5 - 7m between 2070 and 2095) for details.
It looks like both Antarctica and Greenland have hit critical tipping points. The question now: how quickly will the ice disappear? The worry is everything about climate breakdown is happening faster than expected and worse case scenarios are becoming real:
