Here is the Napa Valley edition of the Retrofuture Series maps.
Say goodbye to your jammy Zinfandels and structured Cabernets.
This is the restored 1902 Napa Valley map from my previous post. I’ve added modern hillshade and 218’ of sea level rise…the highest the oceans will rise when all the ice caps have melted, according to the IPCC.
I can spend hours looking at this map, just to see the differences between the late-1800s and now.
The Retrofuture Series is a time machine–the maps combine elements of the past, the present and the future.
The base maps are rooted in the past–vintage and antique maps that show places very different from our current world.
The hillshade effects are contemporary, and the modern world can be seen shadowing the old maps–freeway embankments, dams and reservoirs, and a variety of earthworks.
The 218′ of sea level rise is the future. When all the world’s ice sheets have melted, this is what our world will look like–flooded coastal cities, valleys, and plains. This is a world thousands of years in the future, that none of us will live to experience.
All sea level rise depicted in these maps is based on estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
