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- undersky, on 10/12/2007, -9/+101more accurate picture:
what the earth looks like if the sea level continues to rise:
http://www.rahoorkhuit.net/library/images/groups/gd/air.gif - Sphonix, on 10/12/2007, -4/+51Seems a little dramatic. More like: "What Manhatan might look like if sea levels rose 5 metres tomorrow".
The next slide shot kinda shocked me, but in the whole thing there is some pretty interesting pictures. - Onychophora, on 10/12/2007, -4/+48Ditto: Slide show is NSFW. The link itself is work-safe.
- elbeano, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44that damn global warming rose the water levels around angelina jolie's ass too!
- Humptydank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43There's only one important fact I can take away from this picture -- that I can see my apartment and it's still above the water line.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have have some fossil fuels to burn. - Fejerro, on 10/12/2007, -7/+41Cool, if creepy, pictures. Some of these are NSFW.
- EochaidRiata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34You are missing the key difference: the ice is composed of fresh water and is floating in salt water.
http://www.physorg.com/news5619.html
"In a paper titled "The Melting of Floating Ice will Raise the Ocean Level" submitted to Geophysical Journal International, Noerdlinger demonstrates that melt water from sea ice and floating ice shelves could add 2.6% more water to the ocean than the water displaced by the ice, or the equivalent of approximately 4 centimeters (1.57 inches) of sea-level rise.
The common misconception that floating ice won’t increase sea level when it melts occurs because the difference in density between fresh water and salt water is not taken into consideration. Archimedes’ Principle states that an object immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces. However, Noerdlinger notes that because freshwater is not as dense as saltwater, freshwater actually has greater volume than an equivalent weight of saltwater. Thus, when freshwater ice melts in the ocean, it contributes a greater volume of melt water than it originally displaced.
Noerdlinger's collaborator, Professor Kay R. Brower, of the New Mexico Institute of Technology, Socorro, validated the effect experimentally as seen in Figures 1 and 2. " - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24If the terrorists don't' get you Mother Nature will.
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 08/11/2008, -2/+21Boy are Manhattan property values really going to skyrocket when everywhere becomes beachfront property! :)
- EsotericBoredom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Hey at least that $3000 per month walk in closet apartment now comes with a built in water slide!
- thewump, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17That's a good photoshop.. Here's one I created if things are slightly worse:
http://www.math.toronto.edu/jjchew/images/wallpaper/sun-on-horizon.jpg - Bedonder, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18excalpius
Perhaps you should learn something about displacement.
A floating object displaces a volume of water thats mass is equal to its own. Look up Archimedes' Principle I think you will find it under "basic science".
The ice should not loose mass when it melts so it will fill the space exactly. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Traffic is horrible in NYC... this would help... take a boat to work.
Everybody's doin it!! Sea-doo!! - TGMD, on 10/12/2007, -10/+22Ahh you do realize that if you melt the ice floating in water it won't change the level of said water.
It's basic science.
The problem is that the Greenland ice caps don't float on water but are on land and therefore add to the mass. - N00F, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I'm not so sure about the effects here. Quite a while ago I had read an article (don't know where) that the added force of extra water, due to global melting, would push down on the earth's crust causing a displacement that would compensate for the added amount of liquid water. The result being that the dry land masses wouldn't be as affected as people would expect.
Well, whatever the outcome, I'm sure we'll all find out the results in the times to come.
Good luck and good night! - scyform, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Ahaha suckers....wait I live near the Outer Banks...
- skippy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2006/12/yearinphotos_portfolio200612?slide=12
What Washington, D.C. may look like if the Greenland ice sheet melted.
From same set, slide 12 (previous slide). - tw0bit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12they'll make levees
- Brainwave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Yeah, let's not learn a valuable lesson about levees.
- dolemite5005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9At least we know a real life Waterworld could never possibly be as bad as the movie version was.
- saikhan, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16Save us Al Gore form these artist's renderings! Save us from our ignorance towards the effects of speculation!
But seriously, global warming is a serious issue that needs to be dealt with seriously. - pipdip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9What's the big deal? I think it would be cool to row to work. ;)
- nypix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I don't know about sea levels, but the next picture caused a rise.
- neave, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I agree -- climate change is very serious but this image mocks the issue. This isn't likely to happen, NYC would probably install a flood barrier to stop this happening, similar to the one used in London http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Barrier
- Admiral1701, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I like it, think Venice ;)
- tgunner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I think it looks better.
- bigrobert327, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I remember see that in Artificial Intelligence: AI
- noeljohnhoward, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7there is a venice american style, i live in it.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=venice%20california&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi - KidVicious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7When The Levee Breaks...
- quickgold192, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11it also probably wouldn't happen because it would take thousands of years to reach this level, by which time we will either be extinct, be able to overcome it, or be in some planet of the apes state and not really care.
- patientXero, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7How does this count as 2006 Year in Photos when it is a fake?
- adam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Hit next for a great picture!
- cliffzdude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7During warmer periods in our past, there were vast rain forests. Areas that are now desert were lush. Some scientists point out that if said ice were melt and the earth would warm, far more water vapor would end up in the atmosphere. The only assertion being believed is one that says that deserts will spread. Mind you the idea that we may have more lush land is no reason to go and fire up your 1950 V8 in an attempt to bring along such a consequence. However I find it troublesome that to put forward a good cause it has become fashionable to paint each and every possible consequence as dire. Lets try to stick to real science, not science put forth by Madison Avenue.
- undersky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6let me guess, Venice?
- brewer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Those pictures of Tom, Katie, and Suri are ***** ridiculous. They make me want to vomit.
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2006/12/yearinphotos_portfolio200612?slide=9
Wow! Didnt know she had tattoos! - StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8In case it's not clear: It's like melting ice in the glass, except imagine several extra cubes stacked up above the glass's rim. Solid, they're no threat, but when they melt, it overflows.
- marinist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4They should have mentioned how much sea level rise is required for that view of Manhattan.
Otherwise, it could easily be dismissed as sensationalism.
Here's a Google Maps hack that depicts different sea level effects on coastlines.
http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=40.7077,-74.0527&z=6 - nipplash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I am hoping for Randy Quaid to save us.
- SpacedCowboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@kidVicious:
Indeed, Mass != Volume, which is why part of the ice is above the waterline... The exact *mass* of water is displaced, but the *volume* of the ice is too much to fit into the "hole" in the ocean occupied by the lower part of the ice, so part of the ice sticks out above the surface of the water - it "floats".
When the ice melts, no mass is lost. As it melts, it shrinks in volume until all the ice is water. Eventually, all the water-that-was-ice can fit into the "hole" in the ocean that used to be where the ice was. All through this melting process, the water-level remains identical.
It's easy to prove, just put an icecube into a glass, then fill it to the brim with water (so the ice-cube is floating above the top of the glass), and wait. No water will spill over.
The ocean is not a contained-system like a soda can - not sure where you're going with that one, unless it's just to point out that the volume of a given mass of ice is larger than the same mass of water. That's sort of the point.
Simon. - KidVicious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Lol it means that they didn't go into the future to find out what it really looks like, so they guess.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Finally got the streets clean.
- SilverSpoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Image 17 is awesome.
- jumba911, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The bright side is we wont have to clean streets anymore.
- graizur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Transition can be a bitch. Live will not end, civilization will not end, it's all just change. Change is inevitable. Transition can be a bitch. Figure out how to make your self more more flexible because Transition, Change, Churn, Chaos, Order etc it's what this is all about peoples.
So what if this is not accurate. You should know how many feet above water level you are etc.
PS, why doesn't Manhattan sink if we have raised he mass so much? Is it to small a difference? Is it held up by the rest of the continent? - nipplash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3 Don't worry, I won't end up in Oklahoma; I have seen the movie Deliverance enough times to know what would happen if I found myself there.
- Gizza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The goal of terrorism is to incite terror. The terrorists have already won, most of America just doesn't realise it yet.
- dan8302, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What it just looks like New Orleans... To soon?
- dimplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thank you, Al Gore for the sea level pics. Thank you Keri Russell for letting your hair grow again.
- leonwehttam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Angelina Jolie. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
better pic :D -
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