Thu 26 Jul 2007
Calculated Earth is a collaborative effort by Malcolm Burke and Jonathan Burke and arises out of a piece of background research work that lead them to the many freely available topographical data sources on the net.
The maps and animations are plotted using the June 2006 ETOPO2v2 data set from the US National Geophysical Data Centre.
The maps simply show graphically the selected height across the ETOPO2v2 dataset without interpretation or adjustment. So landlocked areas of the world that are below the selected level will show as being flooded regardless of being without a connection to the sea. No adjustments are made for tides.
Considering the flooding currently plaguing England, plotting the first few metres of sea level rise on this site should make you think about the scale of disaster we are facing if the polar caps continue melting.
http://calculatedearth.com
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July 26th, 2007 at 7:46 am
Superb site Darragh; it looks like East Anglia is screwed.
Just as a by-the-way there’s a good article today over at The Oil Drum on UK energy security:
http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/2790
There’s lots of things to do, apparently, to avoid real energy shortages in 2 to 8 years time.
July 26th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Excellent article. The amount of UK gas and coal based energy consumption is staggering when laid out in a graph.
July 29th, 2007 at 1:08 am
“Special effects were used to predict how the city could look if the Thames barrier was overwhelmed by a surge of water.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/uk_enl_1185603003/html/1.stm