![]() In 2012 a story of the collapse of humankind. Its endurance also led to some humorous tales of woe. For more of his work, visit /searisemaps. Notably, the massively popular FreeCiv is based in large part on Civilization II’s design. The Seattle-based cartographer and geographer has several more maps in the works, including one of New York City. I just want to show what will the world look like, what will our cities look like at that end point, several thousand years in the future,” he added. None of these scenarios are going to happen in anybody’s lifetime, anybody who is living now. “My take is to really show an extreme endpoint. Yet he also acknowledges the seriousness of the situation. Neighborhoods on high ground get named islands after the existing neighborhood. “If something is a hill, it gets named to an island. “A lot of places get named after current places,” he said. ![]() Rather, he aims to bring a touch of levity, particularly with what he calls the new land masses. Linn attempts with his maps to hammer home this point - but not in a preachy sort of way. (MORE: Greenland Ice Sheets Melting Faster Than Previously Thought) “All glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park, Montana, by the middle of the next century.” Forty percent of Iceland’s glaciers will melt by 2100, and in another century the rest will go. In some places, if warming continues at its current pace, glaciers will disappear altogether within a couple hundred years, according to the USGS. “Complete melting of these ice sheets could lead to a sea level rise of about 80 meters,” the USGS reported, “whereas melting of all other glaciers could lead to a sea level rise of only one-half meter.” The sea level rise Linn refers to comes from USGS projections should Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets disappear. It was based on a very eye-catching approach. Civilization is one of the most popular strategy games of all time. It’s grim to think about the majority of the world’s ice caps melting. Freeciv is a great strategy game for Windows PC based on Civilization I and II, inspired by the same plot and applying the same rules to all your games. “It creates a really interesting series of islands,” he said. So instead, Linn chose to create the map at about 130 feet of sea level rise. At the full 260 feet of oceans rising, the city nearly disappears, with Mont Royal just peeking above the waters. (MORE: What Sea Level Rise Looks Like When Today’s Children Grow Up (PHOTOS)) That doesn’t make a very interesting map.” “Some of the cities that I’ve been looking at … if everything were to melt just become vast sheets of blue. And so any of the maps that I’ve made will be at that level or lower,” Linn told. “The sea level rise that the has predicted is about 260 feet, or 80 meters. Linn’s representations of seven cities in the United States and Canada portray how they would look if all the world’s ice caps melted and sea levels rose more than 200 feet. Vancouver’s Stanley Park is underwater, as is the Seattle Space Needle and much of the San Diego coastline. Jeffrey Linn’s maps look like normal maps, until you deep dive into their detail.
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