Antarctica isn't shown, but would become prime real estate.

Looks like Chile survives intact. 😄

And the Pacific Northwest!🙏 which I guess at that point will be called the Pacific-Atlantic north west?

Lot of new oceanfront property in the Midwest...

Somehow I doubt the Appalachian, Catskills, and Adirondack mountains would all become underwater.

Mountains would become the new islands.

And I would become underwater. Maybe instead of making memes I should spend my time building an ark. 😆

the US Geological Survey estimated that if all glaciers and the polar ice caps melted completely, sea levels would rise about 230 feet. most US states wouldn't be under water but florida and louisiana would be history (and all coastal cities).

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Temp name: "Greta Thunberg color glare multi"

I do like that one.

"Greta Thunberg colorized glare"

Lol!

This just made me realize

Maldives is in serious danger

That seems slightly extreme, maybe in a good few million years. But in my personal opinion, it'll be a while

No, it could never be that extreme.
Besides, other than the western edge, ice has been building up in Antartica.

Exactly! Ice retreats every summer, it retreating more these last few years isn't a good thing, but it isn't the end of the world

In the previous interglacial, much of Florida that is now dry land miles from the sea was under 15 - 20 feet of water. 1000 years after that previous ice age ended, Greenland was 70% ice free. Even with the "4 footlball fields melting every yadda yadda" today, Greenland is still 70% covered by ice. The Artic had melted so much 140,000 yeas ago, the polar bear almost became extinct.

Previous interglacials also witnessed way warmer trends than now. Scientists can't explain why overall the current interglacial has been colder than the norm.

People seem to forget sometimes that the climate changes all the times, it always has, always will

That's the beauty of it.
1999 Global Warming hit a peak. We were well on our way to Venus II.
Then the 2000s came, and it got cool, the coldest winters since the Ice Age Cometh 1970s. So bingo, bango, new term, and it can't be disputed because Earth has experienced climate change for the last 4.5 billion years or so.

This is an immensely complex topic and you make some valid points, though some may complain that this line of reasoning is shading into “climate change denial.”

The overall point here is, basically, that “the climate has been changing for billions of years.” (And, as a corollary, without the input of humans.) Yes, that’s true as far as it goes. What this observation may not account for is that previous shifts in the earth’s climate have brought about wrenching changes, extinctions, dramatic evolutions in flora and fauna, and that’s sobering when you consider the fate of 7+ billion current human inhabitants of earth, and billions more of our descendants. An honest accounting of how prior climatic shifts have upended life on earth should give us pause as we consider what we’re doing to the earth today. I would say that humanity is resourceful and well-positioned to survive almost anything, even a crisis much more acute like a nuclear war or meteor strike (or, as dramatized in “The Last of Us,” an über-pandemic), but not without an immense death toll and unfathomable suffering and a greatly diminished existence for those remaining.

Can we explain exactly how and how much the climate is changing? Can we create an infallible scientific model that will chart exactly where we’re going in the coming decades? No, we can’t. Not least because any such comprehensive model would depend upon variables that are themselves impossible to predict (including both “known unknowns” like the outcomes of future elections, decisions of future governments, changes in consumer habits and tastes, the rate of scientific progress on decarbonizing various industries, as well as “unknown unknowns” which are… well, unknown.)

What we do know is that the greenhouse effect exists (it’s the reason why earth is “warm” and teeming with life and the moon, at an equal distance from the sun, is “cold” and barren), and putting more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere equates to more warming. That is the basic overall gist of what climate science tells us that can’t be questioned and isn’t subject to reasonable debate. It’s so easy a third grader can understand it, and indeed, these concepts are introduced in the third grade. Though query whether the carbon cycle is at risk of being deemed “woke science” by a certain political party and jettisoned from the curriculum in RW-SJW states like Florida.

It's true, climate does change, and the Earth doesn't care about what life can or cannot survive pending that change. For instance, the climate of the Jurassic was generally warmer than that of present, by around 5 °C to 10 °C, with atmospheric carbon dioxide likely four times higher. We would die from this heat and ratio of CO2 to O2 and other trace gases.

Aditionally, Since 1980, ocean temperatures have been rising and have done so by 1 degree Celsius. This may not be alarming as 1 degree isn't enough to worry about over 50 years, sure. The problem lies in the fact that it jumped .5 degrees in the last ten years alone.

Coral, which are integral to our marine life ecosystem are extremely sensitive to such changes in water temperature and get sick and die from such a shock. Normally, they could evolve and adapt. In this case, that's not happening. Climate change is real, we are causing it more than the natural processes of the planet would do on its own. The lands may not flood as depicted in this joke of a map as posted, but what I can say, is that you need to look at the Earth as a glass of Ice Water. Left out in the sun, the ice eventually melts, but it keeps the glass cool longer than the following scenario.. What happens when you leave a glass of ice water in the car in the sun? It melts a lot faster.

It seems to me that Science deniers are primarily concerned with the self because they only believe what they can see with their own eyes. Ironically, most of these people believe in a religion of sorts.

Bass Ackwards thinking, I tell ya.

*time

Yeah, I don't think that what this map is about. That was just what I 1st thought when I saw it.

As I own acres on a mountain, I'm kinda for the seas rising. People are going to need places to live and I can make it parceling out land. I'll keep the highest lot for myself of course. ;)

It seems like, according to this map, the water is higher than even most of the Rockies. I say instead of one big ark, let’s all make a bunch of mini Arks and we will each take two species. We can all meet up on the newly formed continent of floating plastic.

Well I work in plastics, I can get you deal on a bigger island, or maybe I'll just horde it for myself....excellent...