planted city

Visualizing climate change in Vancouver 

Here’s a shot of the freshly painted columns of the Cambie Bridge stretching across Vancouver’s False Creek. The blue shading is meant to show the potential impacts of the melting of Earth’s major ice sheets in terms of sea level rise. Details here. 

Related:

• ‘New public art installations function as an understated but alarming urban intervention’ (Georgia Straight)
• ‘Report illustrates toll of climate change in Vancouver’ (Georgia Straight)
• ‘Vancouver in the research spotlight as one of the world’s most vulnerable cities to rising sea levels’ (Adaptation to Climate Change Team - SFU)
• ‘Sea level rise underestimated, say BC scientists’ (CBC)
• ‘Coastal Cities at Risk’
• ‘Sea level rise for the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington: Past, Present, and Future’ (National Academies Press)
• ‘Sea Level Rise Will Hit California Harder than Rest of West’ (Climate Central)
• ‘Warmer seas rising faster on U.S. east coast than elsewhere’ (CBC)