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What popular tourist destinations could look like in 2050 due to climate change - with much of London plunged underwater and roads melting in California (only 7.54 years left)
Daily Mail ^ | 7/16/23 | Jonathan Chadwick

Posted on 07/16/2023 1:59:05 PM PDT by Libloather

From flooded cities to hellish wildfires and deadly droughts, gloomy climate reports constantly describe a world ruined by climate change.

But what would this actually look like?

Environmental specialist Marish Cuenca has partnered with DiscoverCars.com to create artistic depictions of tourist spots in just a quarter of a century from now.

London's Big Ben looks straight out of a disaster movie, straddled by a mass of murky floodwater, while the Pyramids of Giza are home to a toxic urban landscape.

Palm trees of Hawaii have been ravaged by fire, while California's Death Valley is so hot that the roads are melting.

Experts at DiscoverCars.com believe their images could become reality in 2050, unless we take serious climate action and curb our emissions.

'With global warming continuing to have an impact on the planet, we're already starting to see the effects of climate change,' it says in a blog post.

'From the melting of glaciers in the Arctic to warmer summers than ever before, it's safe to say that the environment is changing before our very eyes in real-time.

'With that being said, how might these renowned road trip routes look in the near future if climate change continues to progress at the current rate?'

LONDON

Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament is usually at the top of any holidaymaker's must-see list when they visit London.

But the artist's impression shows our majestic capital in a sorry state due to the Thames having burst its banks.

Westminster Bridge is barely above the waterline, while the roads in front of the legendary tourist attraction – officially called the Elizabeth Tower – are totally flooded.

Experts at DiscoverCars.com say: 'Due to rising sea levels, the majority of the London docks and any suburbs near the Thames are anticipated to be submerged...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: california; climatechange; climatechangehoax; con; dailyclickbait; fake; fiction; fraud; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; london; loot; phoney; scam; tourists
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Expert artists. Back in the 70's, I used to buy 25 cent comics with this stuff in it. The horror. Much better pitchers these days - pretty fancy computers will do that.
1 posted on 07/16/2023 1:59:05 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Could, might, projected, “models say”


2 posted on 07/16/2023 2:00:30 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Libloather

So when are these climate alarmists going to start putting their money where their mouth is and stop buying beachfront property is the developed world? And start buying wheatfields in Alberta or Siberia instead?


3 posted on 07/16/2023 2:02:34 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Libloather

Better tell Osama Obama to hurry up and sell his ocean front mansion on Martha’s Vineyard before it gets swamped by the rising ocean.


4 posted on 07/16/2023 2:03:36 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Libloather

The burning rubble and the dead vegetation are nice touches.
Please, oh, please! Show me DC in a smoldering, flooded ruin!


5 posted on 07/16/2023 2:04:22 PM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: Libloather

Ok, then why are banks lending to build business and residential property on the coast of Florida?

They have a fiduciary obligation to their shareholders to not intentionally lose money.


6 posted on 07/16/2023 2:04:32 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Libloather

I’ve heard this tune before. Florida was supposed to be under water and New York under ice by the year 2020. My sister and her husband are currently at the beach. She informs me the state is still there and the water at the beach is the usual level. I don’t know about New York, but given the reports of increasing crime, I don’t think it is under ice.


7 posted on 07/16/2023 2:06:55 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: Libloather; 100American; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; ...

Curbest thou thine emissions! Repent!

Global Warming PING!


8 posted on 07/16/2023 2:08:31 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Libloather

What BS


9 posted on 07/16/2023 2:08:56 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Libloather

did not see same people make these same claims back in the 1980s saying these same things would happen by 2020? I thought they claimed Manhattan would be flooded by 2020?


10 posted on 07/16/2023 2:09:01 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Libloather

Didn’t Al Bore predict a few years ago that Manhattan would be underwater by now? (Or was it Kerry or what’s her name from Sweden?) How many of these cataclysmic scenarios have been prophesied so far?


11 posted on 07/16/2023 2:13:07 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Libloather

What the hell is Discover.Cars?


12 posted on 07/16/2023 2:14:33 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: Libloather

I wouldn’t worry about London being underwater. I would worry about it looking more like downtown Baghdad than it already does.


13 posted on 07/16/2023 2:15:17 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: Libloather
Yes, global warming could cause all types of extreme flooding.
Just as huge flying reptiles could attack our defenseless cities.
The odds of either event happening are about the same.

Therefore, I demand that we also spend billions to defend against huge flying reptiles!


14 posted on 07/16/2023 2:16:57 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Libloather

And I, I live by the river.


15 posted on 07/16/2023 2:17:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Fantastic info for the Purposefully Misinformed Morons around us.
https://earthsky.org/earth/whats-hottest-earth-has-ever-been/

“ Between 600 and 800 million years ago — a period of time geologists call the Neoproterozoic — evidence suggests the Earth underwent an ice age so cold that ice sheets not only capped the polar latitudes, but may have extended all the way to sea level near the equator. Reflecting ever more sunlight back into space as they expanded, the ice sheets cooled the climate and reinforced their own growth. Obviously, the Earth didn’t remain stuck in the freezer, so how did the planet thaw?”

“Stretching from about 66-34 million years ago, the Paleocene and Eocene were the first geologic epochs following the end of the Mesozoic Era. (The Mesozoic—the age of dinosaurs—was itself an era punctuated by “hothouse” conditions.) Geologists and paleontologists think that during much of the Paleocene and early Eocene, the poles were free of ice caps, and palm trees and crocodiles lived above the Arctic Circle. The transition between the two epochs around 56 million years ago was marked by a rapid spike in global temperature.”

“During the PETM, the global mean temperature appears to have risen by as much as 5-8°C (9-14°F) to an average temperature as high as 73°F. (Again, today’s global average is shy of 60°F.) At roughly the same time, paleoclimate data like fossilized phytoplankton and ocean sediments record a massive release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, at least doubling or possibly even quadrupling the background concentrations.“

“Earth’s hottest periods — the Hadean, the late Neoproterozoic, the PETM — occurred before humans existed. Those ancient climates would have been like nothing our species has ever seen.”

“Modern human civilization, with its permanent agriculture and settlements, has developed over just the past 10,000 years or so. The period has generally been one of low temperatures and relative global (if not regional) climate stability.”


16 posted on 07/16/2023 2:17:56 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: Libloather

Ans London could be pushed up 10,000 feet in the air by and earthquake…

COULD


17 posted on 07/16/2023 2:18:53 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Libloather

They told us in 1975 that we were headed for a new ice age, and also said there would be no more oil left by 1995. Now they’re saying the planet will burn, and there’s more oil in the ground than ever.

Total guesswork. The ‘science’ has no idea what might happen. It’s all a political power grab. The globalists want to rule us.


18 posted on 07/16/2023 2:19:21 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: Libloather

could, could, could

does not mean WILL


19 posted on 07/16/2023 2:19:25 PM PDT by Wuli
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Clearly the world needs to ban private airplanes now. It’s a crisis! /s


20 posted on 07/16/2023 2:21:03 PM PDT by devere
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