
San Francisco Retrofuture
Here is the first San Francisco edition of the Retrofuture Series maps. I’ve always avoided making sea level rise maps focused on San Francisco, because
Conspiracy Theories

Here is the first San Francisco edition of the Retrofuture Series maps. I’ve always avoided making sea level rise maps focused on San Francisco, because

Showing the north shore of the Bay of LA after all the ice sheets melt, these six maps align perfectly in a row, from Pacific Palisades to Whittier, going through Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Downtown LA, and East LA.

I’ve always been fascinated with maps from the 1800s into the 20th century. Old enough to show a very different world from today, but modern

All the names have been vetted and approved by the Select Committee on Climate-Related Place Name Revisions

This new series will map some of the major cities…Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, and…?

My sea rise maps were a perfect starting point for a broader interest in speculative cartography. I love taking bits of the real world and

Behold the Firth of London. This map shows the city with 66m of sea rise I made the first draft of this map in 2015.

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
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