In 2005 I asked AJ Wells to produce some small blue round signs. Written on them was
“If it continues rising at the current rate, this will be the SEA LEVEL in 2050”
The aim was to use these to attach to places where new data was suggesting that sea levels were going to hit unprecedented heights and photograph them.
They were mundane enough to blend in with the thousands of signs around and would probably go unnoticed as has the impending climate tragedy which new data in 2021 is suggesting.
You would have to work a bit to see them if they were there permanently. They, like the warning signs of sea level change would go unnoticed because there is too much information to take in or they could be conveniently ignored.
In the last two years I have decided to get them out again and start using them around the Isle of Wight, the south coast of England, the UK and hopefully when travel restrictions allow find some way of showing where places around the world will be affected.
The picture above is near the waterfront in Wun Chai Hong Kong.
Other photos will be on my works page but I hope to find some way of collaborating with people across the globe to highlight how their lives will be or are being affected
I used data a few years ago from university research such as Southampton and UEA but now I am using this
https://coastal.climatecentral...
With this latest source the levels are suggested flood levels in 2050. My signs are put at a level slightly lower than these flood projections and somewhere nearer the high tide mark instead of the annual flood level.
October 2021