Art installation makes it easier to visualize sea level rise
Climate Connections

Art installation makes it easier to visualize sea level rise

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 10, 20261 min

A stone bench and pillar on Bainbridge Island in Washington State show how sea levels could change over the coming decades. Learn more at https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/

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I'm Dr. Anthony Leiserwitz and this is Climate Connections. A community in Washington state is built a memorial, not to honor the past, but to acknowledge the future of climate change. Bainbridge Island on Puget Sound is at risk of flooding during very high tides, also

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known as king tides. And as sea levels rise, this threat will increase. Laura Hanson, a scientist who lives on the island and works for the nonprofit Eco-Adapt, conceived of an art installation to make sea level rides feel more tangible. She calls

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it a reverse time capsule. Time capsules preserve the past for the future to see. We wanted to preserve the future for the current to see. The piece, built last year, is a stone bench by the water. People who use it rest their

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