You are invited to take a Google Earth tour examining Sea Level Rise and the Fate of Coastal Cities (Links to an external site.), which includes short video animations. This will help you to visualize how much sea level rise will affect coastal communities under different future climate scenarios - one based on a 2 deg C temperature rise and the other based on a 4 deg C temperature rise.
Location : SanFransisco
1.What is the average elevation above sea level?
2.What is the projected sea level rise under a 2 deg C warmer scenario? Under a 4 deg C warmer scenario?
3.How many people live in areas that would be flooded in a future 2 deg C warmer? In a future 4 deg C warmer?
4.What areas/industries will be most threatened by sea level rise (e.g. government, business, agriculture, etc…?)
5.Are there any current mitigation measures in place to help prevent flooding? If so, what are they?
6.Based on historical storm records, what is the range of sea level rise due to storm surge?
7.What is one thing that surprised you about the Google Earth Visualization?
https://earth.google.com/web/@-77.06887022,164.39811389,-10.6422799a,787298.47509228d,35y,166.67160529h,72.48516064t,0r/data=CjESLxIgNzJlM2QwZWU3NGMyMTFlODhjMWNiZjg2OTQ1ZTVlZWMiC3ZveV9wb2ludF
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