Boston 2030, destroyed by the rising ocean


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Edward Mazria wants people to know how rising sea levels -- made worse by global warming -- will affect residents along U.S. coastlines. Mazria isn't a climatologist. He's not even a scientist. He's an architect who gave up running his company in January to devote his time to a nonprofit group he founded several years ago. Called Architecture 2030, the organization tries to bring attention to the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that the building sector contributes to global warming through inefficient electricity use, lighting, heating and cooling.


Boston, 2030, destroyed by the rising ocean Sun, September 16, 2007 - 12:07 PM

Edward Mazria wants people to know how rising sea levels -- made worse by global warming -- will affect residents along U.S. coastlines. Mazria isn't a climatologist. He's not even a scientist. He's an architect who gave up running his company in January to devote his time to a nonprofit group he founded several years ago. Called Architecture 2030, the organization tries to bring attention to the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that the building sector contributes to global warming through inefficient electricity use, lighting, heating and cooling.

To demonstrate Mazria's point, Architecture 2030 has compiled a report that features images depicting the dramatic effects of sea level rise -- from about 3 to 16 feet -- on 21 cities around the country.

Many coastal areas in the U.S. will be devastated, including Lower Manhattan, New Orleans (except along the River), the Oakland Airport, parts of San Francisco, Seattle, Galveston, Miami, Ft Lauderdale, and Savannah.

Go here to see a slideshow: www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/0...60.html

Or go to the Architecture 2030 website and click on the map location of your choice. www.architecture2030.org/curre...t.html

Here is an article on the Architecture 2030 project that developed the maps: abcnews.go.com/Technology/TenWays/story


Last Updated March 4, 2008 2:35 AM

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