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I am thinking about making an earth in about 2100, or so, after global warming has desimated the world. It will be PMT/FT, no far fetched stuff like space colonies on Mars or the moon. Any interest?

Also, I need someone to make a map of what scientists believe the world will look like once the last polar ice cap has melted, kudos to whoever can do this.

cool I'm intrested if it's not Earth. Though I can tolerate intergration

I am trying to make up a earth that is not an earth, I think that the poltical makeup of the earth would be quite different, even if the geography is the same, the political landscape is what I hope will seperate this from the majority of earths.

Well when I say Earth I mean like the million Earth Threads here. Using RL, I don't mind doing NSEarth, seeing as I'm primarly a MT nation

Here's a nice map of Earth with sea levels inflated:

Map (http://www.alternatehistory.com/Discussion/showpost.php?p=853560&postcount=757)

I hope this helps.

Thanks Lachenburg.

I am trying to think about how this would make the World Order look like. The US would certainly be knocked down quite a few pegs, since its major cities are all near the water, and now would be under water. If the freshwater icecaps in greenland melted, Europe most likely would be plunged into an ice age, so I think that this would cause the EU to come together in a weak federation. Also, misquitos would be able to attack people above the normal limits of their species, sending South America and Africa and Southeast Asia into the hole even further. Anyone have suggestions on what the world order would look like?

You forget the fact that there would be widespread droughts in Europe and America since their water is nearly all from snowpack. You would see the major military powers such as China, the USA, and the EU murdering each other over the few remaining breadbaskets left in the world in Canada, India, Kazakhstan, possibly parts of Africa, Mexico, and Southeast Asia. Basically...we're screwed.

You forget the fact that there would be widespread droughts in Europe and America since their water is nearly all from snowpack. You would see the major military powers such as China, the USA, and the EU murdering each other over the few remaining breadbaskets left in the world in Canada, India, Kazakhstan, possibly parts of Africa, Mexico, and Southeast Asia. Basically...we're screwed.

As I said before, Africa would be in the toilet, as Malaria would become as rampant as AIDS. But there is always the chance for a Malaria vaccine, or something that would allow it to become a non-factor.

Malaria would most likely die out in parts of the world where it is rampant now, being as shifting precipitation patterns and rising sea level would destroy a large majority of the swamps where Mosquitos tend to breed.
Europe would most likely have already become a superstate or atleast a tight knit confederation, and would most likely be attempting to secure more secure water sources and the breadbaskets of a newly resurgent north africa, (some computer models predict that additional rainfall would occur over most of the west african desert, turning wadis into full fledged rivers and allowing a return to the grazing agriculture of ancient times). Although European Water Assets would be slightly hit by the melting of almost the entire Alpine Snowpack, "wet" rain still provides the majority of Europes drinking water, and the additional rainfall on the alps would largely make up for this loss.
Holland would be almost entirely underwater, unless they spend billions of euros on raising the top of there sea defences by another hundred feet, which isnt that unlikely, considering it is the breadbasket of north western europe, and close knit alliance would most likely expend an enormous amount of effort to prevent the loss of the region.

I don't know anything about that, could you please elaborate