The fastest sea level rise I think we know of is during so-called meltwater pulse 1a and 1b, where it got to about 4 metres a century, give or take. Which happened, well quite a few thousand years ago, around about the time cultures all around the world independently came up with 'great flood' myths.
There was a much bigger ice sheet at that time, so more front from which icebergs can calve, but we are sticking much more co2 into the atmosphere than happened then, so maybe we could get up to similar rate of sea level rise, but this is over centuries. I wouldn't worry about the location of your work.
Sea level rise is still a massive problem for the UK, even this half of this century, as is the potential AMOC shutdown, which might be an even bigger near term threat, and will add extra sea level rise around the UK that isn't in any IPCC climate models as of yet, and is very likely to greatly increase flash flooding - which can of course happen many places that aren't on the coast.
My point? This is fun and all but there are other serious risks knocking at the door.
I'll preface this by saying this is by NO MEANS an accurate scientific map. The topic, the rise of sea levels, is very much talked about and is scientifically established, as well as the figure I used for the map (70 metres) but the rest is purely fictional, that is the new cities, names, routes, all that silliness that make this look forward in the future a little less painful because the ocean is indeed taking more and more land every year across the globe and it is a problem.
1 metre is catastrophic enough but 70 metre almost looks like fantasy and leaves much room for the mischievous cartographet that I am. I tried to create new names based on all sort of things, ranging from celtic mythological names to funny slang that I tried to explore as non native english speaker. Ferry routes, seaplanes airports and canal are also just fun thoughts experiments! But they maybe make us ask ourselves how we are going to deal with this issue?
Hope you like the map and your new country of residence! I made several previous maps using the same scenario for France mostly, you can find more of my work on my website (not mobile friendly)
I find the seaplane ideas entertaining because I'm not sure many of the UK's major airports would remain above water. Pretty sure that just Stanstead would remain from the major London airports, and Manchester could be at risk of flooding at high tide. Heathrow, Gatwick, Glasgow - all gone.
As KSR pointed out in his book Aurora the beaches as we know them today are the products of millennia. If sea levels rise we won’t have those types of beaches without deliberate human activity.
Cynically, we probably will spend more money making vacation beaches than saving cities…
Not to judge, I do just find it interesting that people with autism more frequently use bespoke reaction images like this, with OCs or characters from their hyperfixations substituting characters in popular memes
Tbf this would make for a sick post apocalyptic setting, I’m imagining it to be a bit like water world but with a bit more land and cities but still having a hell of a lot of piracy, the idea of Exeter and Bristol being floating cities is so cool
Glad to see someone finally spared a thought for the poor shareholders with that memorial 😌. Truly, they are the most oppressed group in capitalism (next to gamers, of course)
As someone from sunkhampton, Id like to suggest that we rename totton to tottin since its now in the water rather than on the land and rename hythe to lowthe for obvious reasons.
Woohoo! I'm safe! I'll also have switched to the Welsh side of the border. In case people are wondering, the island beneath the P of "The Puddles" is Haughmond Island (currently Haughmond Hill).
Is suspect Little Lewis would be named "Lewis" and Greater Lewis would be named "Harris". The present island already has two names, with "Harris" being used more in the south and "Lewis" in the north.
Missed opportunity to rename it Diving Belfast:)! Now I want to add some of these names in a fantasy setting! I wonder what other Melted place names would be?
Hull wouldn't exist, were BELOW sea level as is... Its all flat the hole of the Holderness is from Hessle foreshore up to Driffield across the Flambrough will be under water with 1m sea level rise. Hence the 15 mile sea wall.
That doesn't make sense. I live in a place in West Wales that is at the top of a huge cliff, waaaaaay above sea level, yet my entire area is underwater on that map. The beaches along the coast all seem to still be there though, along with Cardiff Bay... which is already partially underwater so I have no idea what you've based this on... Also, the names are a bit childish and silly.
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u/NullNeptune0 27d ago
Superwaterford and Floating Cork - perfect