Blue Marble 3000

This visualization has been developed at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences by Adrian Meyer and Karl Rege. It shows the earth starting at the last glacial maximum 21'000 years ago and ends 1'000 years in the future.

[DarqeDestroyer]

What I find most fascinating about this is how the desert areas move around. Like about 7, 000 BC the Sahara wasn't a desert at all apparently.

[phoenixsprite]

It's too bad that this map doesnt take into account the influence of ice on bodies of water, inundation and rise of land masses.

[scoobyrds]

So Futurama will have no ice caps? Lol. It reminds me of the conversation between Fry and the Professor,
Fry: "Wow! These rainforests remind me of the ones on Earth!"
Professor: "Rainforests? On EARTH? BAHAHAHAHA!!"

[chhabrag]

This visualization shows that ice and sea levels have no connection however we know that sea levels fluctuated upto 400 m below during peak of ice ages.

[Minininja]

nonononono this is wrong, where is Younger Dryas? Where is the change in sea level, the land mass erosion, pinnacle changes? Foreign object impact effects? e.g. tsunamis/ climate changes?

[GabrielBourke]

Did that. It would seem that especially between 2050 and 3000 the smaller islands such as Malta or the Azores would become submerged

[govi]

@marino4691 thats not ok... the north side is very important--> ocean conveyor belt!

[nohok]

What i find more interesting than the future predictions are the past ones, could it be the source of the multiple flood myths around the world? One has to wonder

[thomaskalbfus]

Apparently the Antarctic Ice Sheet didn't melt.

[DecadeAgoGaming]

Bold to assume florida would exist in the year 3000

[govi]

@Asani1988
1. Die Sonne war vor der Industrialiserung der Hauptgrund. Seit 1860 lässt sich aber einen stark unnatürlichen (sprich: anthropogenen) Einfluss erkennen, der sich im Laufe der Zeit verstärkt hat.

2. Eiskernbohrungen haben viel mehr gezeigt, dass es eine Korrelation zwischen Interstadialen (=Warmzeiten) und erhöhten CO2-Werten gibt.

Ich könnte weitere Punkte auflisten, aber am Besten nehme ich dich an eine Uni-Vorlesung mit.

[meyersche]

@gabezmail you can see it a bit better in the more detailed movies of Europe (Italy) and America....

[alicesacco]

I think there will be a new glacial maximum, not glacial retreat.

[bircruz]

Sea level does not show much change. The thermal expansion of sea water is supposed to flood coastlines and low-lying areas. Hey, I was thinking the Danakil would be underwater, as it had been in the past.

[rudrakshgupta]

How is Antarctica not at all affected?

[geepee]

OK. That's a short-sighted, anthropocentric view. The whole point of this visualization is to illustrate the geologic time scale to which ecosystems and organisms can adapt and the ridiculous modern acceleration that many people realize will be catastrophic in terms of the environment being any longer able to support the overpopulation of humans.

[AvRand]

Didn't the Persian Gulf go deeper into Iraq ~3000BC?

[meyersche]

@DenSenDen Rund um Australien sieht man es sehr gut, finde ich...

[CClausen]

Watching this over and over, notice the chart in the bottom right. CO2 PPM declines, population remains at 7000 million, and sea levels keep rising along with average temp. People living below sea level will move. Eggheads need to stop catastrophizing like it's the END OF THE WORLD

[SteenJ]

Greenland is goint to be green. Looking forward to that :)