Week 8 - Global Warming

It is the year 7010 and here I am in the city of Las Angeles, if that’s even what it is still referred to, it is a bit hard to tell from my observations. I’m not sure how I woke up to this, but I know I need to record as much information I can to remember what I witnessed, that is if I can go back to 2018 somehow.  Between the San Andres Fault, constant fires, and years of droughts, it was hard to determine what the future of California would hold, and it wasn’t necessarily good. Being here now, after having the ability to travel over 5000 years into the future there is definite climate shift that has occurred. Interestingly, as predicted LA is now adjacent to San Francisco, who would have thought? Despite large theory, California has not fallen into the depths of the ocean. The firm crust of the state lays upon two tectonic plates (USGS). Another observation I immediately made was the lack of land and endless amounts of ocean that exists where I once stood, now buried by hundreds of feet of water stretching out. California is no longer necessarily a state, but an island. It is hard to say what it is like elsewhere in the world (considering what may or may not be left of it). The atmosphere is also drastically different, I don't know how to explain it. I know California is known for its fog, but this is like nothing I've experienced before, it hurts to breathe and feels like I can't get enough air. We can blame mother nature, but realistically, we must begin to heavily consider and factor in the consequences of the earth directly from humans. It is evident that if we do not drastically make changes now, the future of earth may include unpleasant surprises. Though the future of geology is challenging enough to predict as it is, if we take action to improve the atmosphere and care for the earth, we can avoid otherwise further destruction to the earth. 

USGS. Will California Eventually Fall into the Ocean. https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/will-california-eventually-fall-ocean?qt-news_science_products=0#qt-news_science_products

Week 8: Global Warming on Seattle

Underwater Seattle: https://www.goodfon.com/wallpaper/underwater-seattle-washington.html

It’s year 7010, I’ve travelled way too far into the future and now I have no way of getting back. I was only supposed to go 50 years into the future, but somehow, I punched 5,000 into my time machine instead and I landed in what used to be Seattle but is now covered in water from what looks to be the effects of global warming. My time machine sunk but I was luckily able to escape, thanks to the windows that weren’t automatic—yep I rolled them down for my exit after I crashed and was able to swim to the top of the Space Needle. This place looks nothing like I remember it to be. It’s always been surrounded by water, but now there’s a lot more of it. There aren’t as many people and they’ve all congregated and began new colonies at the highest destinations, around the mountain ranges.

Even if I could get my time machine out of the water somehow, the people here have completely stopped using fossil fuels—so I wouldn’t even have gas to get home. It’s like everyone is living back in the little house on the prairie days—which I guess is necessary if the only planet they can live on is this affected by their actions. 

Week 8 - Global Warming

I have traveled 5,000 years into the future. It is August 26, 7010 and I stand near what used to be Mobile, AL. The city was abandoned about 2500 years ago when sea levels kept increasing and overtook the city infrastructure. The whole city of Mobile is completely under water due to being right on the edge of the coast.  As you can see from the map Florida is completely underwater. The cities of Mobile, Gulf shores and Pensacola have been completely submerged under water. The sea level is about 50 miles inland. So the cities of Prichard, Satsuma, Chickasaw are all under water as well. Back in 2018 global warming was talk about but was not acted upon.  This used be called the Gulf Coast. It was were everyone would come for Mardi Gras, which originated in Mobile, AL. This is where the Auburn Tiger and The Crimson Tide is from.   It is no longer called the Gulf Coast because there is no coast anymore. This was mainly due to all the problems with the ozone. Everyone said was a hoax, this new coastal region has happened slowly. Many people did lose their homes and belongings but over all humanity has adjusted to a new coastal region.

David Kim - Week 8 Global Warming

Future inland of San Francisco Bay Area

Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-global-expose-millions.html

This week, rather than traveling far distance wise, I decided to take a trip into the future to see what lay in store for the human race.

It was a good thing that I had transported myself into the future after grabbing lunch with my wife at a place more inland as I found myself on the new coast.  Talking with some people that I saw, it appears that the majority of the San Francisco Bay Area was now under water and the inland cities were the new "bay."

I was told that it had actually been expected to be far worse than what had occurred.  However, once the world saw San Francisco go under water, they began to take the problem seriously and started making adjustments in order to slow down the damage.  There are apparently machines now which help take in carbon dioxide and output oxygen in order to help stem the increase in carbon dioxide levels.  This has led to a slowing of the green house effect, and while it has not brought back what I knew back in the 2000's, it has stemmed the worst damage that was expected.

New regulations have also been put in place in order to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide output from factories and apparently all of them run on clean energy.  That would make sense why even the roads here are solar panels.

I guess as I return, it's time to invest in some more land inland and at the same time try to bring more attention to this issue.

Cost of Global Warming

The Real Cost of Global Warming

My favorite beach is a location we talked about before. It's close to Santa Barbara and is considered a "secret" because of it's location and the only way to get to it is via a rock. I can almost expect that as Global Warming occurs we can see that beach getting harder and harder to get to. As I mentioned before, that beach is only accessible via a rope during low tide when the beach is actually reviled. With rising waters, I would understand that the beach might not be reviled at some point making the water come right to the wall. This would make it nearly impossible to enjoy from a beach standpoint and only be able to enjoy it from the cliff. (Which I spent sometime wondering if that's how it's originally supposed to be).  

Another cost that we might not correlate to Global Warming but the wildfire season being longer and more sustained. The beach I love is in California and has been in the path of the last several fires. While this does not change the beach too much it does change the surrounding area and wildlife which can influence the beach. This can change the homes for many other animals that use the beach to survive as well as the forrest near by. Rising temperatures leads to a drier season, which in turn manifests as a longer wildfire season. 

And lastly, the influence or cost that I was surprised to see was that it can affect the coastal bases near there. And there is one close by/on the beach I am referencing. 

Further some consequences can include bigger temperature swings which can include snow in a location that normally does not see that precipitation (such as California Central Coast).

-Julia

Global Warming Impacts. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.ucsusa.org/our-work/global-warming/science-and-impacts/global-warming-impacts#.W4NYEP5KjVo

Global Warming

I visited the coastal town of Mendocino in what used to be California. Due to the ice caps melting the sea level rose so high to sink the redwoods but the tops are still exposed. We live in tree houses above the water and survive on eggs and fish. It is humid all the time and cloth is a luxury. We trade bottle caps as currency and float around on canoes. There are talks of places that still have technology but this is not one. We are stranded. My time machine sunk and I am using my last battery to post this.

Week 8 - New Panama City, Panama

The Year is 7010 and I live in New Panama City, Panama.   The Original Panama City was put underwater in the great floods of the year 3075.   This is what the original canal looked like. 

                                                  Panama Canal Picture from above 

The Original Panama City was put underwater in the great floods of the year 3075. We have had an amazing history in our climate affecting the oceans.   The accelerated CO2 levels of the earth were not warning enough for humans to take action and global warming continued until crossings like the Panama Canal were literally extinct.   

Humankind would not listen to the scientists and people pointed to an ancient American President of Donald Trump for turning the world’s back on global warming.  The CO2 just continued to mount in the atmosphere combined with damage from other industrial chemicals that changed the composition of the earth’s atmosphere.  Thankfully, in the year 4,000, the Einsteinian society was able to be to reverse the atmosphere degradation.  The earth has clean clear air, but we are still taking CO2 out of the air and building the world back to what it once was.  About 200 years ago, Ice was spotted in the former area called the Arctic and the Antarctic.  There are submarines that will take you to see the ice on a vacation.   I read in the history books that cruises to see Alaska and Ice formations in the 21st century were common. 

They say we are lucky if the atmosphere was not reversed even the water would not be safe, and we might have the leave the planet for Mars or the fake planet Zoom that was built in the year 3,500 as a panicked humanity looked to prepare to abandon earth. 

It was amazing to find that so much of the infrastructure was solid and strong that a new underwater city could be founded upon it.  Today, we only know of the need for such things like the Panama Canal from the ancient stories of the “dry times”, that is the time when Ice capped the Poles and captured much of the water that today makes up the globe.   Today much of the world is covered by water and it is only the super-wealthy who can afford to live or even vacation in the drylands.   The dry lands used to be very hot reaching temperatures of 140 degrees on a regular basis, now they have seasons again and see summers in the 80s.   Most of the ocean remains cool, as all the water is so very deep.   

My family just got a new shuttle (picture below) which allows us to move from city to city underwater. 

                                                  New Family Shuttle In New Panama City. 

They say the sea may recede and fall - I hope my grandchildren can see that, see the temperatures recede and live in the drylands.   For now, we are lucky to live under the sea. 

Global Warming

The year is 7010, and the world has experienced some devastating results from global warming. During my time in the great city of New York, I noticed a lot of changes compared to the year that I come from, 2018. The rising sea levels that were experienced during the 2000's have not stopped and now the city is flooded. The city has actually grown rapidly towards the mainland to avoid the rising sea levels. The government reacted a little too late to save the original New York city but in 7010, the government implemented new legislation that has helped to stabilize the rising sea levels. The main contributor that slowed global warming was the creation of new energy sources. Every vehicle in the world now runs on electricity and all factories that used fossil fuels as an energy source have been converted to take advantage of other energy sources. In fact, the burning of fossil fuels has been banned worldwide. This change has improved the quality of life in major cities, but unfortunately the cities found in coastal areas have been flooded.

Week 8 - Nestle - Global Warming Miami

I visited the coastal city of Miami 5000 years in the future.  The city is essentially completely flooded, giving the city an eerie appearance.  The tall buildings towering out of the water are the only reminisce to the once vibrant city.  The significant rise in sea level is due both to the fact that the cryosphere has completely melted and the increase in temperature has caused thermal expansion of the sea. The fluctuation of climate and the CO₂ content on the atmosphere is a normal occurrence throughout Earth’s history, the extreme shift that occurred over the past 5,000 years is the result of global warming.  Global warming was the result of a combination of things.  Though the release of CO₂ from volcanic activity contributed a small amount, it paled in comparison to the amount of CO₂ released by the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation through burning.  This amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere caused increased temperatures like in the Cretaceous period.  Though many countries tried implementing renewable energy solutions to reduce the amount of CO₂ emission, but the industrial and agricultural fasciitis of society were complete constructed around the consumption of fossil fuel so it was very difficult to completely eliminate their use.  This led to mass extinctions and a complete restructure of society.

References:

Strauss, Benjamin. (2015). American Icons Threatened by Sea Level Rise: In Pictures. Retrieved from http://www.climatecentral.org/news/american-icons-threatened-by-sea-level-rise-in-pictures-19547

Week 8 - Global Warming - Aerion O'Kelley

This week I did not stray very far, traveling a few miles down the coast to Charleston SC. The real travel this week was the trip 5000 years into the future. Global warming, uncorrected has made most of the tropics inhabitable, as over time sea levels have put the majority of present-day cities underwater, with the coastline having moved a minimum of 60 miles or more inland, and almost all of Florida is now underwater, with the average sea level 230 feet above what it currently is today. Visiting current-day Charleston now requires you to dive 220 feet underneath the ocean, and the years have not been kind.

Global warming continued to occur through an interruption of the natural processes that maintained relative balance throughout our current history. 5000 years into the future, industry to simply keep humanity alive continues to destroy our world with pollution, and with even less space on earth, the destruction of our earth and consumption of finite resources continues at exponential rates.

What we are experiencing now with global warming is a direct reflection of human interaction on our environment - the destruction of trees, landscapes, coastlines and waterways, consumption of fossil fuels and chemicals, have all taken a radical turn since the industrial and agricultural age. This is not an astrological coincidence, it is humanity affecting our environment.

Despite attempts to plant more trees, stop consuming fossil fuels, and control human growth, there is no turning back, humans simply are too destructive to this planet at this population size.

Other, less drastic advances in technology over the years have enabled humanity to reduce pollution to survivable levels around major cities, but in 7018, the vast majority of earth is no longer habitable. The vast majority of hope, technology and scientific focus is no longer on saving planet earth, but on leaving it behind, with a desire not to make the same mistakes in the future...

Week 8- Global Warming - Natural Cycles

Natural Cycles of Future 7010

In 7010 the due to the natural cycle of the earth it would have healed itself and we would have seen, sea levels higher approximating that parts of California and Florida would still be underwater. Standing in Ft. Lauder-dale would be a small area of dry land that was surrounded by water. The earth ability to heal itself would prevent the climate change from happening. That all the changes from one cycle to the next may even run longer in many areas, of the world.

The Ice age would last longer so that could also mean that Glaciers of the world would be intact before the climate change from the excessive greenhouse gases. We would have an even larger indigenous sea life of animals that we could not even imagine today. I can also imagine that most of the travel from land to land would be by boats. They would not be enough land dry and uncovered land space to create large air planes and airports in all the places we are used to having them. The Nitrogen cycle would be a very health cycle for earth as it would promote a health earth with larger areas of vegetation to be inhabited by humans and animal. That would also equal an abundance of food and water for all the inhabitants. 

This, the natural cycle and what is called the anthropogenic cycle,  would not have altered the atmospheric composition of greenhouse gases, and therefore equals no increased atmospheric composition. 

Reference: OSS Foundation.(2018) 
Cook, John. (2018). Human fingerprints on climate change-rule out natural cycle.Retrieved from: https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-natural-cycle.htm