Slideshow: Photos Show Global Warming Overtaking Cities

Edward Mazria wants people to know how rising sea levels -- made worse by global warming -- will affect residents along U.S. coastlines...

Mazria isn't a climatologist. He's not even a scientist. He's an architect who gave up running his company in January to devote his time to a nonprofit group he founded several years ago. Called Architecture 2030, the organization tries to bring attention to the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that the building sector contributes to global warming through inefficient electricity use, lighting, heating and cooling...

To demonstrate Mazria's point, Architecture 2030 has compiled a report that features images depicting the dramatic effects of sea level rise -- from about 3 to 16 feet -- on 21 cities around the country.

Read the entire article here.

See a selection Architecture 2030's images below.

• • • • • • • • New York All Photos from ABC News/2030, Inc./Architecture 2030' and Google

All Photos from ABC News/2030, Inc./Architecture 2030' and Google

Comments

[TRichards]

O.K. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that humans have zilch to do with global warming. Either way, it's clearly happening -- even if just on a cyclical basis as the no-nothings would have us believe (thanks, Rush, for doing your usual job of encouraging your ignorant listeners to hold fast to their beliefs).

The question now is, "What do we do? Argue about it or start doing something about it -- such as building better levees around New Orleans, such as encouraging businesses not engaged in import-export to build inland, and such as -- just in case if you wish -- getting away from fossil fuels for a whole host of other reasons as well.

But, it's a romantic concept to believe that we'll solve things with that good ole Yankee ingenuity we like to pretend we've retained. Hell, we can't even respond to Katrina, rebuild New Orleans, or rebuild at ground zero any longer (the latter being a good thing NOT to do since water is already a problem). The U.S. just can't get things done any more. It has become, with a helluva lot of help from the Bush Administration, a dysfunctional no-can-do society.

Our major export? Arms. Good grief!

[kfdan]

Climate change is upon us and in my opinion the greatest threat to our survival is water for the most part. That is fresh water. If you've noticed the great lakes are drying up and sooner or later that will effect the bread basket of America! Staple foods are going to take a hit.

[godlessclif]

Actually the Great Lakes are getting deeper and soon Iowa will be under water. Hotter climate, more evaporation more rain in North and South America.

There is an opposite effect in Africa that stops it from raining called Global Dimming. It is all geography and pollution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming

[villastrangiato]

HEAR NO EVIL SPEAK NO EVIL SEE NO EVIL



We all have the luxury of sticking our heads in the sand now. But the sand may be too hot for our children's grandchildren.....

[noen]

Doug's lies have been repeatedly refuted in study after study. Go to "RealClimate dot org" or another is "illconsidered dot blogspot dot com" and look for "How to Talk to a Global Warming Sceptic" Still other good resources are "Deltoid" or "Pharyngula" both a part of "ScienceBlogs dot com"

Doug is a paid RNC troll.

[ohiomark]

Hey Doug, what did you do with your big check from the RNC? I took mine to the car dealer to buy a big SUV.

[OneVoiceInACrowd]

report that features images depicting the dramatic effects of sea level rise

Comprehension deprived?

[DemonicLaughterInc]

Oh come on ohiomark, we all know that the RNC pays you minmimum wage because that's all you're worth. You haven't earned enough to buy a thirty year old Pinto and your opinions and knowledge are as outdated and irrelevant as said auto.

[BeerHolder]

ohiomark, Is your forehead still bruised from trying to eat? You know if you would wear your helmet and protective goggles you wouldn't get injured so much.

[cam]

Hey guys, stop pulling Doug's chain. He's heating up all the CO2.

[Doug]

Instead of turning on your air condition, put more plants in your house. Let me know if that makes your house cooler. (rolling my eyes).

[Sanjong Thapa]

What about Alaska?

here's a nice illustration from 15,000yrs. ago that shows 'Beringia' -- before the sea rose up to take the Siberia-Alaska Land Bridge

http://www.geocities.com/assingment2000/seberian_land_bridge.jpg

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/images/jan-june01/kennimap.jpg

do libs still blame man for that?

[OneVoiceInACrowd]

Dude, most of us know about the land bridge and its disappearance.

Maybe you can explain to me the need for Sun protection now? Did we use to blister and burn before or not go out in the sun?

[Sanjong Thapa]

"'man-made' global warming" is the biggest crock of bullshit that the counter-culture has ever tried to get over on the consumer.

[desthmoneses]

people had darker skin in those times. in all likelyhood humans were probably all black in the begining. It only takes 30,000 years for skin color to change, I wonder what Americans will look like 30,000 years from now.

[Sanjong Thapa]

cute question OVIAC

here's another: will 'man-made' global warming bring less clouds, or more clouds? what effect will your answer have on evaporation? what about rainfalls?

[HellerHighwater]

Why do you and your cohort as reps of "man" take this so personally?

"It's not my fault, therefore I don't have to do anything about it" is so...so...3rd grade.

I mean, taken to an extreme, man definitely has had nothing to do with putting the planet in the path of an asteroid, but if we could do something about such an event and save millions of lives, wouldn't you?

[godlessclif]

No that ice age was caused by a meteor fall or volcanic eruption that blocked sunlight. Like in 1816, the year without a summer, only bigger.

[HellerHighwater]

Oh, for God's sake.

Whether GW is made by man or not is oversimplifying and irrelevant.

Whatever the source, the outcome is no less horrible. To not take steps to mitigate it, even if man's contribution is only 2%, and even if it slows down part of the vaunted economy (talk about a golden calf!), is irresponsible and cowardly.

[billu]

You are assuming of course that the warming trend will progress indefinitely. There is no history of that in any record (tree rings, ice cores, temp readings, etc.).

[shockmagog]

Even "temporary" Global Warming would mean it would last a few hundred years. That's a long time to me.

[godlessclif]

Alligator fossils in Hudson's bay area.
When a Potomac Alligator bites Bush on the ass he will beleive it.

[fact finder]

What about increased rain fall in some areas and severe and long lasting drought in others. It is all irrelevant unless we all do some thing drastic now.

[starboymikey]

The fact that Earth is warming cannot be denied by rational person who is willing to look at the evidence objectively.

What exactly is causing that warming is another question entirely, but only if you choose to live in denial can you be blind to the fact that CO2 emmissions, caused by humans, is making the problem worse, even if it is not the sole cause.

So, instead of these endless, stupid arguments, claiming that Mars is .02 degrees warmer today than it was 1000 years ago, we should be acknowledging the peril our own world is facing and start working on meaningful ways to deal with the problem. If there are other factors than our impact on the environment, fine. We probably can't do much about that. But we can certainly do something about our own contribution to the problem, hopefully before we wind up solving it by creating a nuclear winter in a war for dwindling resources.

[Richandler]

People forget methane so much. It's little graph matches up the same with CO2 and temperature. Are we causing that? Maybe, since apparently farming produces more methane than all the cars and planes combined can produce of CO2. Yet by that logic. Methane should be higher than CO2, but it isn't it's the same and always has been. Also you would think if you have 2 global warming gases doubling, shouldn't the effect double? Well, it hasn't.

Temperature causes the drop and rise in both of these levels. This has been thought of by few scientists, but the ones who have bothered acknowledging it agree with it. Also here is a trivia question of the environmentalists: Why was Greenland named Greenland?


Answer: Because it used to have a beautiful green coastline before it was covered with ice.

[mommamia526]

Yes, methane, I have been saying that. It is the pigs, after all. Pigs, I tell you. We all need to keep kosher. It is not the farming that causes methane, it is the lifestock. Pigs! Cows too. No more whipped cream with that starbucks coffee! Reduce your carbon profile while you reduce your waistline. Now there is a slogan for a political action committee!

[godlessclif]

They will make the world look like Mt. Doom in Mordor. Belching fire and gloomy clouds to keep out the sunlight.

[Doug]

So you're willing to accept NASA data that supports your claims but not their data that disproves it. Religion indeed.

[Antifa]

Soggy cities is easy enough to demonstrate, but it is minor compared to the displacement of agriculture.

The established 'Food Belt' of every nation is going to shift northward (in most cases), and changing rainfall patterns will establish not only a different agricultural regime, but a changing and undependable one.

Food and water are going to take a hell of a lot more labor and innovation than they ever have before.

[Smirk]

How does anyone know what the average temperature on EVERY PLANET in the entire solar system is, and whether or not it is changing? Is there an intergalactic climate agency that keeps records?

[Smirk]

Pardon me, Antifa. My question is for Doug.

[Doug]

NASA

[godlessclif]

Doug has a pipeline to the Grey Aliens like Thor
on Stargate.

[mommamia526]

Yes, everyone wonders where the bees went this year, and I think they may have moved to Antarctica. Ice is melting there, I heard. Apple trees are already growing in Alaska, I read. All the grass is dead where I live, drought and extreme drought. Tomato plants grew very tall, produced flowers, but no tomatoes. But, that is just the observation from my local balcony. Mighty hot out here. A hot winter also predicted, and more drought, worse than this year, in 2008. So, food and water are going to take a lot more labor? In intensity, or manpower? Maybe that will be a means of getting rid of obesity. Yes, yes, I am babbling, and have been babbling.

[godlessclif]

I think genetically engineered crops are killing the bees. Just a theory, but they are building insect poisons into Canola seed DNA and genetic potatoes.

[negogato]

Thanks Antifa,
That is the crux of the matter.
Redistribution of rainfall and increased severity of storms will damage production of the food supply.
Rising water get attention but that is just the tip of the iceberg.

[OneVoiceInACrowd]

Doug I found your comment - here it is:

"What I love is the lack of science from the fear mongering environmentalist movement.

Look at a graph with earth's temperature history for this period in earth's history. They tell me with a straight that we're the cause.

Look at a graph of earth's CO2 level throughout history. Tell me with a straight face that CO2 causes global warming. Earth had a major ice age with CO2 level more than 10 times today's levels.

Instead, they will argue with insults and assumptions of my political beliefs because they are unwilling to actually look at ALL the data."

And honestly you want us to listen to you?

[Doug]

That is not the comments. All the comments on this topic were erased earlier.

Read both sides of the argument and tell me it's manmade. Unless you are dumb enough to say that the entire solar system getting warmer has nothing to do with this one planet we call earth. Unless you really believe that correlation is the same as causation (referring to CO2).

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Pluto.... all the planets are getting warming because of my SUV.

[LittleGreenGreaseBalls]

No Doug! Your brain is getting warmer because your blood pressure is going up. You need to get into your SUV and to the clinic to get some more meds. Put an icepack on your head. STFU.

[shockmagog]

Mars and Pluto show evidence of some warming, while the Sun's energy output has remained constant since 1958:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070907191736AAQgVF9

'There have been claims that warming on Mars and Pluto are proof that the recent warming on Earth is caused by an increase in solar activity, and not by greenhouses gases. But we can say with certainty that, even if Mars, Pluto or any other planets have warmed in recent years, it is not due to changes in solar activity.'
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11642

[godlessclif]

See the little wiggles that increase every winter and slow down every summer in the CO2 graph. If that is not people burning fossil fuels what is causing it?

[Groko]

The claim there is no proof of anthropogenic contribution to global warming is addressed by a speaker on Electric Politics. He makes the point that proportions of CO2 that are made up of C14 rather than C12 in the atmosphere, are greater than would be expected for any other cause of increase of CO2. C14 results from nitrogen in the troposhere being bombarded by solar radiation, and is deposited on earth where it is taken up by plants and the animals that feed on them. Its half life is about 5,700 years, and this is used in the procedure called carbon dating in which age of fossils can be dated back as far as 50,000 years, or 10 half life periods. When the stuff is in the air, it comes from the burning of wood and things less than 50,000 years old. This excludes fossil fuels like coal and oil. However, that just from the burning of wood these levels can be singled out and compared to samples of the atmosphere trapped for 30,000 years in Antarctic ice, and found to exceed concentration in those sample, suggests that increased levels of CO2 with C12 are quite likely also due to man's burning of organic matter.

No proof of man's role? Give me a break. If nothing is accepted as evidence for man's role, then proof is impossible, and shouldn't even be called. Invocation of this empty bleating is indicative of a luddite agenda.

[OneVoiceInACrowd]

Some of these people do not believe in carbon dating or planetary history past 6000 years.

[getoffmedz]

There are too many fucking people on this ball! ©getoffmedz - 2005/2006/2007

[shockmagog]

"Invocation of this empty bleating is indicative of a luddite agenda."

It's also a Corporo-Fascist agenda. Their bony, grasping hands will clutch at anything that will help them maintain their death-grip on power. If it means masking the truth, so be it.

Also, the advent of Human-caused Global Warming means the future is uncertain for the Global Power Elite. These willfully ignorant Conservatives fear their pending loss of power and prestige more than death itself.

[godlessclif]

What about all the C14 created by Nuclear weapons testing and power plants. Any painting forged after 1945 can be identified by radio carbon dating. The C14 level permanently increased in 1945. Also Western coal has thorium impurities that create new C14 when coal is in the ground.

I think this guy should check his numbers.

[hubcap halo]

My Brooklyn apartment is literally a block from the water in this guy's slide show.

Oceanfront property!

And look at the East Village. They'll be giving away inner tubes at the methadone clinic. (Sorry, Mom)

[godlessclif]

So when JFK airport is under water what then? Just drive across the bridge to Newark?

[curiousasheck]

Imagine the Hydro Electric power we could generate by piping that water through Hydro Electric plants across the U.S.

Imagine turning every desert in the U.S. into a lush agricultural paradise.

Imagine vast reservoirs of desalinated sea water and man made lakes.

INNOVATE!

[desthmoneses]

fool.... you clearly don't understand the concept of global warming, in acutality theres a high propability it will cause another ice age. What will happen to all of your lush fields and desalinated water when half of the planet is frozen solid? will they remain?

[godlessclif]

Imagine Iowa becoming a Great Lake instead of a state.

[Doug]

It's not my science. The majority of scientific paper written about global warming, by qualified persons, reject the IPCC's assessment. That's a fact. The majority of qualified scientists do not agree that man is the cause of global warming.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=b35c36a3-802a-23ad-46ec-6880767e7966

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=84e9e44a-802a-23ad-493a-b35d0842fed8&Issue_id

You're only reading what the IPCC says. It's like my clergy analogy. If you walk into a clergy meeting and ask if there is a god you will get a resounding "yes". Nearly all the member of the IPCC already agree with the IPCC's assessment. There is no peer review except from other members, people the IPCC know already agree with the assessment.

[hydenorhare]

Some guy manufactured some slides out of SFX, ABC's house GW shill, Bill Blakemore, was there to report on it, and Huffington says it shows that GW is overtaking cities.

Yes, this the current state of the MMCC debate.

[ohiomark]

I love how they are trying to pass these off as "photos". I'm sure the people who live in the areas of the "photos" are wondering why they are NOT under water.

Get over yourselves Libs, you can't change the climate.

[OneVoiceInACrowd]

Why do we have "spare the air days" again?

[LittleGreenGreaseBalls]

Omigod! Is Mark Back? I swear he has an answer for everything. Mark? How much do you weigh? Are you able to get out of your desk chair? Have you ever been on a date with another person? How many TVs do you have and are they always on? Do you eat Wonderbread? Twinkies? Do you study the underwear ads? Do you plan to graduate from highschool?

[kellygrrrl]

and we can't change the fact that there will always remain some percentage of the population who refuses to accept any responsibility for anything
and we can't change the fact that there will always remain some percentage of the population who does not care about any living creature other than the shadowy soul-less figure in the mirror.

[getoffmedz]

hydenorhare - you make yet another false assertion (aka LIE) and the limited ohiomark agrees!

LOL, you silly's are really quite the braintrust?

[godlessclif]

Where does it say that the climate never changes Ohio? In the Bible?

What about the Sahara Forest. It is documented on
paintings by prehistoric man dated to 3000 B.C.

[shockmagog]

"Get over yourselves Libs, you can't change the climate."

None of us are TRYING to change the climate--we just ARE.

Please pay attention. The article's photo caption states:

'Architecture 2030, in a partnership with Google Maps, determined how American coastal cities would be affected by predicted sea level rise. New York (pictured) would experience a 3-meter rise.'

It's merely a depiction of how a 10 foot rise in sea level would look from a great height. Of course, if you don't care, it's no big deal.

[kellygrrrl]

amazing how many really don't care.
I think that part scares me more than anything.
It would be one thing if they were just uninformed

[VungTauVet]

Yeah, if Mark would have read the article and processed the information he'd understand why the people who live in the areas of the "photos" are NOT wondering why they are under water.

[mommamia526]

Yeah, and bad news for the Donald and his legacy. Lots of his buildings right there in the waterzones of New York and Miami! And real estate is already going down the tube anyway!

[Doug]

Why were the comments erased on this post? Can't take the heat of your own BS propaganda?

[OneVoiceInACrowd]

Doug are you still trying to play "scientist"? Are you know also Astronaut?

Have you found those graphs yet that show earth CO2 levels 10 times higher than they are today with a cooler climate like you said you would?

[Doug]

I've linked the graphs before as I will do it again. Unfortunately you're going to have to do a little bit of reading to see when the major ice ages, but I think you might be able to handle that on your own... can't you?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Phanerozoic_Carbon_Dioxide.png

[godlessclif]

CO2 levels 10 times as high would kill all animal life leaving only insects and arthropods[spiders]. So you are talking about what, before there were Reptiles. I think that is irrelevant.

[negogato]

WHO are you talking to? The website?