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Thursday 6 February 2020

Listen to the scientists

[Update 2: in Part II, XR Cambridge Rebel Scientists produced a video tying it all together
Update: East Anglia Fenlands + London Thames Valley inundation models now on YouTube!]

This is what happened at the first Extinction Rebellion Cambridge working group of concerned  scientists, on the topic of sea level rise (SLR) among many others discussed then. As posted earlier here, the scientific consensus lies at 0.5 and 2 m. SLR by mid- and end-century in moderate emissions and far-tail scenarios, respectively. That meeting reiterated, however, the importance of an extreme scenario, ~ 6 m. SLR from the melting of various ice sheets: 7 m. is in fact the default SLR setting for the original sea level rise map, flood.firetree.net.

GIS made it easy to extend maps for Great London in the last post, and East Anglia Fenlands incl. Cambridgeshire County in the second last one. Here they are in sequence, may need to adjust pan&zoom depending on browser and screen size:



OS OpenData SLR layers on (SLR legend see Details), switch to DEFRA / floods layers to see flooding risk




OS OpenData SLR layers on (SLR legend see Details), switch to DEFRA / RoFRS layers to see flooding risk


To reiterate, this is all open data from Ordnance Survey* and Wikipedia posted under Creative Commons** free to re-use with proper acknowledgements as indicated below.

*: Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [2010, 2020]
**: CC BY-SA 4.0

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