An Earth with all the polar caps melted and with a sea level up to nearly 80 meters or more. That?€™s nearly a 240 foot rise in sea level. You can image the result on many of the Earth's major cities.
New York, Washington D.C., London, Venice, Tokyo, just to name a few, all under 240 feet of water or totally flooded.
A rather sobering view of the Earth. One that if things don't change could very well be in the future for the generations to come.
The texture still needs allot work and it is at the 16k level. The pictures above are of a working 8k version for in Celestia testing. The texture takes into account the land masses rebounding from the lack of ice, which also helps to push the water level up as well. The hardest part was finding texture information for dealing with Antarctica. I found a low resolution texture that gave me the push I needed. I will post updates and progress reports here.
As always comments are welcome.
BTW. About 4 or 5 years ago some of us here in the forum wanted to do this but we couldn't find the data needed to do it right. Amazing what a few years and the internet will do.
Don. Edwards
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I like it! Nice. I especially like the thawed Greenland and Antarctica!
What a remarkable map. I will definitely use it in my Geology and Environmental Science classes, as soon as you make it available.
