Map Exhibits What US Will Look Like 'If We Do not Reverse Local weather Change'?

For years, a map of the US allegedly displaying what’s going to occur to the nation if “we do not reverse local weather change” has unfold throughout social media. 

The map exhibits a physique of water stretching from California to North Carolina overlaid on a map of the continental U.S. displaying a lot of the nation underwater. We discovered posts repeating the declare, with the map connected, on social media platforms like Facebook, Reddit and X.

Snopes beforehand fact-checked this meme, which we decided originated as a thought experiment created by an architect after he visited the Mediterranean. As a result of the map was actually not created by scientists, nor for the aim of warning the general public concerning the results of unmitigated local weather change, we have rated these claims “False.”

A reverse image search revealed a put up on Pinterest that additionally featured the map, on this case crediting it to Bret Drager and titled, “The Mediterranean Sea of America.” 

Snopes performed a Google keyword search and located that it was first posted on Feb. 4, 2014, to a weblog on the architectural web site Drager Architecture. An outline that accompanied the map learn, partially: 

I had the pleasure of taking a cruise across the Mediterranean just a few years in the past. My spouse and I had such a good time exploring the historic locations and artifacts and the lifetime of unusual cities. I believed, would not it’s nice if the Mediterranean wasn’t so distant?

Nicely, I used to be analyzing maps and globes and realized that the Mediterranean Sea is on the identical Latitude as the USA. If solely it have been potential to rotate the Mediterranean Sea round to our facet of the planet? Would it not match? What impact would this have? What concerning the states… new coastlines in the midst of the nation… new relationships… states torn in items?

A few display captures, a lot of graphic manipulation and now we all know. The Mediterranean Sea suits throughout the confines of the USA of America. In a manner, it’s fairly wonderful how large the Mediterranean Sea is.  We all the time assume if the USA as an enormous nation, greater than 3000 miles from east coast to west coast. It was fairly a process to traverse that distance. Amazingly, historic mariners of the Mediterranean traversed comparable huge areas of water for his or her commerce, and conquests.

So, what have we executed? It is a new imaginative and prescient of the USA of America. Just a few states have been unaffected by this mash-up.  Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Foremost and Florida. Sure, I’m ignoring Alaska and Hawaii since they’re distant, sorry.

Zooming in for a better look, Snopes additionally decided {that a} textual content laid over the physique of water clearly said, “Mediterranean Sea of America.” 

 (X Screengrab/@SirajAHashmi)

Beneath is a side-by-side comparability of the map shared on X and a screenshot of the Mediterranean Sea taken from Google Earth. Most noticeable is the “boot” of Italy central in each pictures. 

 (Screengrab X/@SirajAHashmi and Google Earth)
In addition to Snopes, different fact-checking organizations which have debunked the meme embody USA Today, FactCheck.org, and AP News.

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