海平面上升会淹没你的城镇吗?[幻灯片]

一个有创意的谷歌地球应用程序展示了城市在一米、二十五米甚至八十米的水下被淹没的样子

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气候变化正在导致海平面上升,我们经常听到关于未来洪水将淹没城市的警告。当涉及到理解这到底意味着什么时,视觉化的洪水可能比文字更有力量。因此,旧金山的深海生态学家和种群遗传学家安德鲁·大卫·塔勒为谷歌地球地图设计了一个有创意的应用程序,该应用程序显示了世界各地的城市在不同程度的洪水下的样子,从一米到八十米不等。

塔勒还负责一个名为南方油炸科学的海洋科学博客,他开始这项练习是为了描绘他的系列科幻小说舰队,该小说描述了一个海洋上升80米的世界。他首先描绘了他的家乡旧金山,然后开始接受来自世界各地希望看到自己城市在类似条件下的人们的请求。塔勒在Twitter页面#淹没你的城镇上发布了这些引人入胜的可视化图像,它们很快就流行起来。他收到了如此多的请求,以至于他在网上发布了说明,以帮助人们创建自己的模拟。现在,世界各地的爱好者正在将他们的可视化图像发布到Twitter标签上。

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我们请塔勒向我们发送他创作的一些最喜欢的洪水图像,这些图像在此处的幻灯片中复制。例如,海平面上升一米就足以严重淹没东京和迈阿密。这些地图未经科学数据验证,许多变量会影响任何位置的实际海平面上升。尽管如此,这些图像仍然是令人好奇的事物,并且代表了一种引人入胜的方式来传播关于气候变化的意识。

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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