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Global warming - South America with sea level +100m
auteur: Walter B. Myers/Novapix
référence: t-glb98-00036
Image Size 300 DPI: 42 * 42 cm
This is how South America may appear with mean sea level about 100 meters (330 feet) above today's. Such a dramatic rise in sea level could occur if all of the Earth's glaciers were to melt.
In this image much of Brazil, Venezuela and nearly all of the of the Amazon Basin has been flooded with sea water destroying a minimum of 2 million square miles of dense tropical rainforest. Further south the majority of Uruguay, Paraguay, and much of Argentina are, like the Amazon Basin, under an inland sea.
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