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What does the future hold?


In regards to the rising water level, the future is looking relatively bleak for some places. "Disruptive and expensive, nuisance flooding is estimated to be from 300 percent to 900 percent more frequent within U.S. coastal communities than it was just 50 years ago." (Oceanservice.noaa.gov, 2018), this information came from a report wrote by the government agency; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Using this as an example of what the future might hold, I personally feel worried for the future. Almost 40% of Americas population live in the proximity of a coast line, these statistics are shockingly high and they are all at risk of flooding and shoreline erosion.


Another source I looked at was this video from YouTube (right). It is a visualisation of what the earth would look like if all the ice melted. The rising temperatures and melting ice caps are both massive contributors to the rising sea level and last year we learnt that the damaging affects of climate change are now irreversible. "National Geographic showed us in 2013, sea levels would rise by 216 feet if all the land ice on the planet were to melt. This would dramatically reshape the continents and drown many of the world's major cities." (A. Kuzoian 2018).

I also looked into predictions of the future in online news articles and i found one which looks into how the rising sea level will affect human population in years to come. "In another 120 years, costal areas, currently home to 1.3 billion people, are projected to be overwhelmed by sea level rise" (Desk, 2018). This information will be valuable in terms of resources for my project. I can use this along side the open data from NASA and I will convey this information in a visually pleasing way for my audiences.

Desk, T. (2018). Sea level rise may force 200,000 to migrate. Dhaka Tribune. [online] Available at: https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/environment/2018/10/24/sea-level-rise-may-force-200-000-to-migrate [Accessed 9 Nov. 2018].

How Earth Would Look If All The Ice Melted. (2018). [video] Directed by A. Kuzoian. Youtube.

 Oceanservice.noaa.gov. (2018). Is sea level rising?. [online] Available at: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sealevel.html [Accessed 12 Nov. 2018].

Pickering, M., Wells, N., Horsburgh, K. and Green, J. (2017). The impact of future sea-level rise on the European Shelf tides. Continental Shelf Research, [online] 142, pp.50-68. Available at: https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.herts.ac.uk/science/article/pii/S0278434316304824 [Accessed 9 Nov. 2018].

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