You thought you were safe in your desert resort? You can buy this map. As the oceans rise, the Gulf of California will inundate the Imperial Valley,

This is a conspiracy. When I started making these maps, it was with a sense of wonder and fascination. The way deep-time would change the

It took me a while to get back to the cities of the East Coast of the United States. I’d made maps of New York

When I first made the New York and the Boston maps, I rendered the sea level rise at a much lower level than the cities

I made the first Boston sea rise map several years ago, but I never wrote a blog post about it. Well, here it is, at

Here’s the NY Sea map, updated with new graphics. This will happen someday, but not in our lifetimes. Some who have dared to speculate on

Here’s the newer version of the Portland map, with updated hillshading and elevation. It shows 215′ of sea level rise, the highest estimated by the

In the ongoing process of updating my old maps, this is San Diego and Tijuana with 215′ of sea level rise. I love how the

Ursula LeGuin did it first–Always Coming Home has a fantastic drawing of this, created in the mid-1980s. This map shows what central California and the

Really, this post might be more appropriately titled “Evolution of a Cartographer”, because the way I’ve revisited and changed this map over the years reflects