BZoltan
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Reged: 09/06/05
Posts: 75
Loc: Budapest, Hungary
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***NEW VERSION***
This Timeline one scary potential effect of climate change -- rising sea levels. Will your house be underwater? Will the desert become an ocean? Use the time slider to see which locations will be submerged as the planet's oceans rise. Note: it's important to turn on the terrain in the "Layers" section of the Google Earth client. And for added effect, turn on the 3D buildings layer.
How about your house? You can see your house, if your place is under 200m, above sea.
Do not forget: this animation is (only) a GAME!
San Francisco under sea: THE TIMELINE DOES'NT SHOW TIME!
 
Have you seen my other Works?
Filling Grand Canyon at Yavapai Point (Timeline)
CIA World Factbook - Geographical datas
CIA World Factbook - Population data
CIA World Factbook - Government data
CIA World Factbook - Economy data
CIA World Factbook - Communications data
CIA World Factbook - Transportation data
CIA World Factbook - Military data
CIA World Factbook - Transnational Issues
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The Mapmaker
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Edited by BZoltan (02/07/08 12:02 PM)
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STWFfounder
First Post
Reged: 03/29/07
Posts: 1
Loc: Cairns Downunda
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I heard about the ice sheets breaking up and drifting into warmer waters.
They say this is now happining at a rapid rate. We need people to join us at savetheworldfree.org so we can keep the pressure up on congress to push alturnitives to fossil fuels. will you join us? will your supportters join us? like turning a super tanker you have to start slowing hours before you want to turn. Thanks for the pics of SF find me at feedback SavetheworldFREE
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We don't see things as they are,
we see them as we are.
Because...
Truth IS....
Ralitive 2 the observer..
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Villaman
Cartographer
Reged: 05/22/06
Posts: 317
Loc: Hungary
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First I thank BZoltán for this wonderful idea and for draining attention to Global Warming with his skills and his unique aspect using the power of GE. 5*
STWFounder: Its evident, we join you with all of our might. People are graby and hasty the world is yet too slow for us. It cannot assimilate the organic material we push back to the atmosphere. The largest CO2 acceptors are the algae in the oceans creating organic material from the CO2 but the sedimentation is not as fast as is the burning of the fossilic fuel. It is the material of an ancient ecosystem and this ammount of organic material do not fit in ours. We spare a lot of energy in the fight with our own sins. Imagine how much energy is spared to public light. For example: If there won't be robbery at night we could earn this spared energy. There is so much to do, but first we have to get rid of the fossilic energy before it is too late. Please read THIS conversation.
Cheers,
Villa
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Edited by Villaman (04/02/07 12:31 AM)
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giasen
Tourist
Reged: 07/14/05
Posts: 88
Loc: SW
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i'm all for alternative engergy and such, but have you heard of the terms 'interglacial' and the 'sun'?
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Villaman
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Reged: 05/22/06
Posts: 317
Loc: Hungary
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Hi Giasen!
It is a possibility that we are in an interglacial period of earth history.
But,
that is something we can't change or modify even a bit. Or wait, well.... maybe when world-powers testing rockets, than they tossing the Earth.
Who knows? But I know that we could reduce drasticly the use of fossilic energy, that way the CO2 concentrations in the air.
Have you ever meditate on possible biological effects of increasing CO2 in the air?
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giasen
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Reged: 07/14/05
Posts: 88
Loc: SW
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Villaman,
you make a valid point. one of the biological effects of co2, which we exhale, is used by plants. give me a call when you can produce an engine that harnesses ambient static electricity for power. we should come up with solutions before we let the luddites take over.
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hotwellian
World Explorer
Reged: 02/06/06
Posts: 1436
Loc: Bristol, UK
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Neat effect, BZoltan, but surely the effect of the animation is of the order or ten or more metres, rather than one?
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Jezza, Boatman, Author and Administrator, Hotwells
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BZoltan
Cartographer
Reged: 09/06/05
Posts: 75
Loc: Budapest, Hungary
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Hi hotwellian!
Try the effect with different metres! Unfortunately you can't choose less than one meter, and can't choose "0" meter.
Best regards!
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The Mapmaker
http://utvonalterv.lap.hu/
http://usa-nemzetipark.lap.hu/
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Villaman
Cartographer
Reged: 05/22/06
Posts: 317
Loc: Hungary
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Hi Giasen!
There is nothing wrong with the engine. The problem is with the fuel. I created two figures to illustrate what I am talking about.
The first figure represents the present situation. Our engines working with fossilic fuel. The ecosystem wich we are living in is not prepared for such ammount of organic material and never will be prepared. That ecosystem was fallen, pushing back its material is no good. Algae will multiply rapidly to assimilate the carbon in excess, but still the burning is so fast that the global climate will change as we can feel it already.
Rapid evolution of microorganisms is not an utopia anymore, politicians must act before we delete entire cultures or our race from this globe that we love so. Still there are lots of alternatives here I present one:
If we create fuel from the material of our present ecosystem - and leave the fossils in peace- we can create an equilibrium and our machines will run too. Im am sure that the 21th century genetic science will overcome this problem and create plants that produce fine oil for our engines.
It is not my task to create, finance these engines or these fuels, but even if it would be I think I would find myself against international laws. The power of oil was never this cruel.
We are here just for the idea.
The other possibility: Politicians wait until the soil become desert and we won't have any chance against dwindle.
I would like to invite everybody to the 'Hurricanes' thread also!
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Jeff_Norman
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Reged: 04/10/07
Posts: 1
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Hello Villaman,
We have to be careful with Bio-fuels. Right now, the increase in price of corn and acceptance of biofuels is creating social and environmental disasters in many parts of the world.
Take for example a brazilian person growing corn or wheat to sell in the local markets; the high price of corn brought on by legislature to increase the use of biofuels in first world countries has caused this farmer to raise his prices and sell to the international markets. Now the corn is too expensive for locals....and they are starving.
On the environmental note.....when it is so economically rewarding to grow corn.....people clear rainforests to plant corn......a little bit counter productive dont you think?
especially since the clean burning properties of ethanol and other plant oil based products are very small.
Good intentions are not always good results.
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