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Global Warming’s Effect on Heritage Sites

Landon Silla

Official CyArk Post

By: Landon Silla
August 15th, 2007

Global Warming’s Effect on Heritage Sites
CyArk Hazard Map showing 25 meter inundation level
CyArk announces its newest feature, a fully interactive Hazard Map showing inundation levels and plotting previously recorded earthquakes. Everyday, global warming is becoming more and more of a reality and one of the many consequences of this is glacial melt which is slowly but surely raising the current sea level. There are many heritage sites close to the ocean at low elevations in danger of rising sea levels. Along with the dangers of other natural disasters (earthquakes, fires, etc), we are running out of time to document many of these sites. This new map shows exactly what parts of the planet will be underwater at a given sea level rise, and which sites are going to be effected. Please see the FAQ for instruction on use of the Hazard Map.

This edition of the CyArk Hazard Map is a beta, and we are looking to improve and add to it’s functionality. We intend to overlay other risks on our map such as fire danger due to climate change, armed conflicts, development, unregulated tourism, looting and inadequate security. However we have not yet located such information. If you have access to any type of data that could potentially be integrated in the Hazard Map, or can direct us toward such data, please contact us. Please note that future additions (including increasing the max zoom from 5 levels to 9 and adding customizable “My Places”) are being planned for the future. Subsequent articles will be written to detail these so stay tuned for future updates!

As we have just released this, we would welcome any input, suggestions, feature requests, or bug reports. Please add a comment below addressing your thoughts and we will attend to it shortly. (If your comments pertain to a particular view of the world, please click the Link To Page at the bottom and provide the url)

Most importantly, please enjoy our Hazard Map!

Landon Silla
Manager of Information and Technology

UPDATE (8-20-07): We have just added an additional zoom level increasing the total zoom to six levels.
UPDATE (1-18-08): We have just added an additional THREE zoom level increasing the total zoom to nine levels.

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Comments

March 12th, 2008 Yurtdisi Egitim said:
it seems like e very good web site but my English is not good. It would be great if it might be availible in other languages too. Thanks.
May 13th, 2008 susanne harford said:
archive.cyark.org/index.php
australian government report of effects of climate change - good luck - great idea and map
June 28th, 2010 Jehnavi said:
What the article fails to mention is that the “one to two percent” of the atmosphere that is comprised of greenhouse gases is critical for maintaining a temperate and hospitable climate on the planet. It also neglects that while water vapor is a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2, water vapor is incapable of driving climate change due to its wide variability and very short atmospheric lifetime. Humidity varies greatly from one place to the next, and water cycles through the atmosphere in only a few days.

CO2 on the other hand is well-mixed both laterally and vertically and remains in the atmosphere for 100 years or more. So its effects are global and long-term. The article dismisses off-hand anthropogenic emissions of CO2 as minuscule without the common sense understanding that returning a GHG to the atmosphere in a matter of decades what nature took millennia to sequester is far from benign.
www.globalwarming360.net/

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