Europe if all the glaciers melted – new cities, canals, ports and borders [OC]

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by mydriase

45 comments

  1. Finally a decent map of Europe,  where not half the place is missing. 

  3. This does not take in consideration what the Dutch do best.

  7. Hm, either I am under water or live in a coastal town on an island. Town too small to accurately make it out on the map. Looks like a close call.

  9. This is highly inaccurate. The Netherlands would just start building bigger and bigger dams. The Dutch would never surrender to the sea, they’re too stubborn.

  10. How is it possible that Valencia and Barcelona are not affected? Valencia is a flat city. The same goes for Barcelona mostly except some locations.

  12. Love the way that Aberdeen and Edinburgh are the only two Scottish ports left

  13. I am from Czech Republic and I fully support this change. The beaches will be closer.

  14. It puzzles me how lakes and the Caspian Sea can grow in size due to glacial melt.

  15. Moldova finally gets sea access? The sooner the better!

  17. Oh no ! All the glaciers on earth have melted and some countries are gone.

    Not the best news to start the week with but maybe this timeline could be fun : we get to move cities and rename them, building floating town and villages, see the hydroplane make a comeback, a new age of sail dawning and most importantly, super cool alternative geography / The Netherlands are underwater.

    But before you comment please read my short disclaimer :

    This map is not a scientific one, nor is it a forecast or from a study. You can consider it as utter fiction/ bullshit or just a fun semi scientific, fantasy, geographical venture. The only scientific truth in it Is that if all glaciers suddenly melted, it’s estimated (source : USGS) that the sea would rise by about 70 m, the rest was up to me to imagine and create though.

    Because it’s based on the premise that all the ice on earth melted, there is no date associated to the map. It could be tomorrow, it could be in 1000 years. However, since it’s more likely to happen in 1000 years than tomorrow, and since climate change would have completely changed the world, you’re absolutely free to imagine the year it would be and how the future would be. I don’t have a crystal ball so let’s just imagine this together how Europe would be.

    All jokes asides, I hope this map can help intensifying the discussion about climate change and what it has in store for us, because Europe won’t be spared by the rise of the sea levels. So, what happens ? Where do people go ? What do the dozens of millions of refugees do ? Where do they relocate, how do they adapt, what are the great political changes brought by this radical change ? I’m not sure but with this map, we can have a good grasp of the new geography and let our imagination run wild.

    Hope you find it interesting and please let me know if some names don’t make sense in your native language. I tried to do some silly puns and play with etymology. Data is from GEBCO and everything else is from my own invention, I apologise in advance if your hometown Is no more 🙁

  19. Cities and towns tend to be on rivers, built in low lying formerly marshy river deltas and in coastal ports etc, so the most impacted areas would include many very heavily populated places.

    The coastal defence and hydrological engineering companies will be very very busy!!

  21. You totally forgot that the Dutch will protect their land at all costs.

  22. Thanks for the question mark for Bielefeld, it`s still not proven that it exists.

  24. Will there be a German/Dansk civil war to found this new country?

  28. How is the Mediterranean coast so little affected? Barcelona, valencia, they beach city. Would assume 70m higher water level would flood the whole city. 

  31. Great both where I live and property I bought are under water

  32. Post-glacial rebound will keep the Nordics above the sea.

  33. Is there a map somewhere where I can zoom more in? I live in Denmark and I can barely see what’s left here

  34. Caspian sea being an actual sea instead of a lake…

  37. If all the glaciers melt, I feel the rising seas would be our least problem.

  38. Cool map but the -holm in Stockholm already means “small island” but Stockö sounds new and fresh haha

    Also Linz…Poland?

  39. Why are Crete and some other Greek islands labeled as a separate country?

  40. I’d probably be part of the City state of Maastricht. Or I’d be part of Germany.

    The joys of living in the Limburg province in The Netherlands

  42. Most important of all; Denmark AND Stockholm is gone. I FUCKING LOVE IT.

  43. Dear planet,

    When I said I want an ocean between us and Russia, I didnt mean putting us underwater. 

    Sincerely, 
    A lad from Estonia 

  44. If the glaciers melt, they knock out the gulf stream due to desalination of the oceans.

    So whilst most of Western Europe is underwater – it’ll be frozen for 6 months of the year, with winter temperatures dropping by 10-15 degrees. In the UK, that means new low temperatures of below 0 possible from September through June…

  45. Well it will solve the Donbas dispute with Ruzzia…

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