A Brooklyn-based artist has created a free iPhone app designed to help people imagine the effects of rising sea levels. According to the app, it would take 59 percent of the ice sheets to disappear to put my lofty perch underwater with the fishes. After Ice, launched last Thursday by Justin Brice Guariglia, uses data from Nasa, as well as geolocation and augmented reality, to enable users to experience a submerged New York City. The app, which is available for download in both English and Spanish, shows how much water would be needed to cover Manhattan with ice over time. Increased global warming and melting ice could result in a sea level rise of six feet by 2100, according to the New York Panel on Climate Change.
A Brooklyn-based artist has created a free iPhone app designed to help people imagine the effects of rising sea levels. After Ice, launched last Thursday by Justin Brice Guariglia, uses data from Nasa, as well as geolocation and augmented reality, to enable users to experience a submerged New York City. The app, which is available for download in both English and Spanish, shows how much water would be needed to cover Manhattan with ice over time. Increased global warming and melting ice could result in a sea level rise of six feet by 2100, according to the New York Panel on Climate Change.