Europa, wenn alle Gletscher schmelzen würden – neue Städte, Kanäle, Häfen und Grenzen [OC]

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

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

Why would there emerge a new country in Romania?!

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.

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.

Yay sea closer to my home

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

Moldova finally gets sea access? The sooner the better!

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 🙁

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!!

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

Chilling😎

Bonn am Meer 💀💀💀

I’m already living 4 meters below sea level

And Madrid still has no beach 😂

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

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

Okay, that’s it, I’m moving to Uppsala.

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