For those of you needing some R&R from the Pielke Snr frontline, here's the draft of part four in the series.  Comments, suggestions and shoeings are all gratefully received. 

I see what you mean.  Yes we'd better restore Florida otherwise Joe Romm might pick up on it as proof that sea-level is rising faster than IPCC estimates.  Thanks!

The figure captions are pretty small, any way to blow them up to the sizes typical in other articles?

Sea level rise isn't fanciful, its actually happened before. Wonder what the citzens of Copenhagen, St Petersburg & Rekjavik will think of this.

Steve, I restored some of Florida so it's more defensible if one want to challenge us over the detail. I also noticed I had not included Cuba in the current ocean so I added it and made sure the gulf stream goes south of Cuba.

jg

Cheers jg!  The good people of Florida can remove their wellies.

Steve, I should have added the line "Source for Earth's topology: NASA/JPL-Caltech" to my illustrations. Do you want me to upload a revised set, or would it be convenient to add this as note at the end of the blog post. Though I've greatly manipulated the original NASA image, in light of the Bishop Hill criticism, we should make sure this awknowledgement is in there.

I've added the NASA/JPL credit, though I think losing Florida still qualifies as crime of the year ;-)

Hi Steve,

I did a test with your post. I created a quick n dirty animated gif of the ocean changes. A lot of image quality is lost in the GIF and I didn't try to adapt to the format, but could. It looks better in Flash.

I posted a GIF version here: BSW