Climate and energy choices this decade will influence how high sea levels rise for hundreds of years.

If we keep our current carbon path
(3°C global warming)

(3°C warming)

Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO Image Landsat / Copernicus

If we sharply cut carbon pollution
(1.5°C global warming)

(1.5°C warming)

Image Landsat / Copernicus Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO

These images show projected future sea levels at Bazylika Mariacka (Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) in Gdańsk, Poland 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.