Portland, Oregon, is probably not a coastal city, but if the entire world’s ice sheets melted, it could still prove largely underwater. In a new sequence, Seattle cartographer and urban planner Jeffery Linn mapped out what Portland and a few different cities would seem like with maximum sea stage rise. each and every map contains newly named islands and bays, like the “Chula del Mar” in San Diego. In L.A., town of Downey has develop into “Drowney,” and the airport is “Ex-LAX.” The map also notates the place landmarks like Disneyland and the Miracle Mile would end up in the newly fashioned bay. The mapmaker used to be impressed with the aid of a an identical map by using a San Francisco blogger. “i might all the time been fascinated by what the arena would look like with a sea degree upward thrust,” Linn says. “I was very impressed with his take on it. So I stole his thought.” The maps express an awfully long-term imaginative and prescient of the future however level to what’s taking place today. “These maps are an excessive state of affairs, and it could almost certainly occur hundreds of years at some point,” Linn says. “i feel that the real damage comes lengthy before this extreme remaining level.”

by 2100, the Intergovernmental Panel on local weather change predicts a sea stage upward thrust between 1.7 and 3.2 feet; different climate scientists say it may well be as much as four toes, and virtually 10 toes by means of 2300. And whereas that’s now not enough to drown Portland, it is sufficient to devastate coastal cities.

“i’m hoping that the dramatic nature of these maps, and type of the humorous take on things may get into the minds of more folks than may in any other case take into accounts this,” Linn says. so far, Linn has created maps for six cities, and is fascinated by going farther. “i’ve been considering it will be actually cool to do an atlas of cities international,” he says.