A rise in global average temperature of just 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit could drastically change our area's coastline.

Climate Central has created an interactive Surging Seas map to illustrate just how our landscape could be altered if global temperatures continue to increase.

Click around the link and explore for yourself, but here are a few screen grabs I thought were interesting (the white represents dry land, the dark blue is ocean, and the light blue was land that would be underwater).

When I started moving the map around, I realized just how bad things could get inland. We always think about the beachfront property, seeing the destruction from Hurricane Sandy. We know that the barrier island could be wiped out, we know the beach towns from Sandy Hook to Cape May are all in danger, but I never stopped to think about the flooding in towns along the Delaware River like Bordentown and Burlington and Camden and Philadelphia.

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