Which Future Will We Choose?
Climate and energy choices this decade will influence how high sea levels rise for hundreds of years.
The Pentagon, Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
These images show projected future sea levels at The Pentagon in Washington D.C., United States due to human-caused global warming under two different scenarios. Climate and energy choices in the coming few decades could set the destination, but the timing of rise is more difficult to project: these sea levels may take hundreds of years to be fully realized.