海平面上升會淹沒你的城鎮嗎?[幻燈片]

一個有創意的谷歌地球應用程式展示了城市在一米、二十五米甚至八十米的水下被淹沒的樣子

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氣候變化正在導致海平面上升,我們經常聽到關於未來洪水將淹沒城市的警告。當涉及到理解這到底意味著什麼時,視覺化的洪水可能比文字更有力量。因此,舊金山的深海生態學家和種群遺傳學家安德魯·大衛·塔勒為谷歌地球地圖設計了一個有創意的應用程式,該應用程式顯示了世界各地的城市在不同程度的洪水下的樣子,從一米到八十米不等。

塔勒還負責一個名為南方油炸科學的海洋科學部落格,他開始這項練習是為了描繪他的系列科幻小說艦隊,該小說描述了一個海洋上升80米的世界。他首先描繪了他的家鄉舊金山,然後開始接受來自世界各地希望看到自己城市在類似條件下的人們的請求。塔勒在Twitter頁面#淹沒你的城鎮上釋出了這些引人入勝的視覺化影像,它們很快就流行起來。他收到了如此多的請求,以至於他在網上釋出了說明,以幫助人們建立自己的模擬。現在,世界各地的愛好者正在將他們的視覺化影像釋出到Twitter標籤上。

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我們請塔勒向我們傳送他創作的一些最喜歡的洪水影像,這些影像在此處的幻燈片中複製。例如,海平面上升一米就足以嚴重淹沒東京和邁阿密。這些地圖未經科學資料驗證,許多變數會影響任何位置的實際海平面上升。儘管如此,這些影像仍然是令人好奇的事物,並且代表了一種引人入勝的方式來傳播關於氣候變化的意識。

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大眾科學 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: 大眾科學 Mind and 大眾科學 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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