This Is How Famous Places Might Look Like In 2050 When The Global Temperature Rises By 3°C (20 Pics)
Global warming is not an unfamiliar term anymore. Almost everybody on this planet has heard of the phenomenon but very few people take it seriously and take any action to prevent the long-term heating of Earth’s climate system. Some folks just prefer to live in denial but that won’t stop the glaciers from melting.
The rise in average global temperature will melt the ice caps and eventually lead to a rise in water levels all around the world. The researchers at Climate Central created a project in which they took some famous places and showed how they will look in 2050 if the temperature gets 3°C higher than today. In just 30 years, most of our civilization might get lost or drowned underwater. Scroll below to see some hypothetical images created by researchers at Climate Central.
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#1 Burj Khalifa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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#2 Statue Of Liberty National Monument, New York, New York, United States
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#3 The Pentagon, Washington D.c., District Of Columbia, United States
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#4 Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
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#5 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, India
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#6 Riverside Museum, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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#7 H.r. Macmillan Space Centre, Vancouver, Canada
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#8 Temple Of Literature, Hanoi, Vietnam
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#9 Tokyo Tower, Tokyo, Japan
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#10 The Royal Palace, Stockholm, Sweden
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#11 Queen Square, Bristol, United Kingdom
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#12 Lloyds Amphitheatre, Bristol, United Kingdom
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#13 The Bell Tower, Perth, Australia
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#14 Royal Pavilion, Brighton, United Kingdom
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#15 Lincoln Park, Newark, New Jersey, United States
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#16 Plaza De La Catedral, Havana, Cuba
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#17 Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark
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#18 Tower Of London, London, United Kingdom
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#19 King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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#20 Lalbagh Fort, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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This is scientifically illiterate. The images shown would require sea level rises of at least five metres and in places much higher. Current estimates of sea level rises by 2050 are between twenty five and fifty centimetres – one tenth of the levels shown.