Nickolay Lamm: What Sea Level Rise Looks Like Jason Samenow - The Washington Post
go to original May 9, 2013

Ever wonder what the sea level rise will look like in real life? StorageAhead presents images to show what the world will look like in 2100, 2300 and 2600. (rnlstorageahead)

Sea levels have risen along the East Coast around 6 to 8 inches since 1960. Under different global warming scenarios, seas could rise 8 inches to several feet by 2100.

The longer term concern is that if warming causes the collapse of the Greenland and/or Antarctic ice sheets, seas could rise tens of feet, although it is thought a rise of that magnitude would take hundreds of years.

Nickolay Lamm, a 24-year-old researcher and artist from StorageFront.com, was motivated to gain a better idea of what such a devastating rise in sea level would look like.  And so he created a set of surreal images showing treasured landmarks swallowed by sea water.

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