{"id":10134,"date":"2023-03-21T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=10134"},"modified":"2023-03-22T11:28:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T15:28:34","slug":"mapping-sea-level-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/03\/mapping-sea-level-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping sea level rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in 1970s, while still in high school, I was really into topographic maps. I tried making topo maps of parts of Concord, Massachusetts, where I then lived. This was back in the days of drawing with pen and ink on paper, so making maps was challenging and fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember reading somewhere about what was then called the “greenhouse effect,” which would prompt the melting of the polar ice caps. I forget the amount of sea level rise predicted. But when I looked at a topo map of Concord, most of the town would be underwater, with just a few of the tallest hills was islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yep, we knew back then about what is now called global climate change. Then, as Michael Mann has documented in his book The New Climate War,<\/em><\/a> the oil companies conducted a massive disinformation campaign. The oil companies basically hijacked our elected officials while we weren’t paying attention. And here we are today, even more worried about sea level rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With all that in mind, I was glad to find the Conspiracy of Cartographers website. <\/a> They make maps showing what things will look like if the sea level rises 66 meters \u2014 the current best estimate assuming all the polar ice melts. Here’s a link to their map of the Boston area<\/a>. I love their place names: Concord Bay, Lexington Archipelago, Flint Island \u2014 this last represents what is now high ground to the east of Walden Pond. Here’s a screen grab of part of their Boston map:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screen grab of a small part of the Conspiracy of Cartographers map of Boston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Beautiful maps. And depressing. And a very good corrective to the decades of lies and misinformation emanating from the oil companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in 1970s, while still in high school, I was really into topographic maps. I tried making topo maps of parts of Concord, Massachusetts, where I then lived. This was back in the days of drawing with pen and ink on paper, so making maps was challenging and fun. I remember reading somewhere about what … Continue reading “Mapping sea level rise”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[140,921],"class_list":["post-10134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-culture","tag-global-climate-change","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10136,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134\/revisions\/10136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}