A sinking future? Shocking image show rising sea level in US

New images and research paint a grim picture of what the future may look like if the world fails to adequately address climate change.

If high carbon dioxide emissions continue, researchers with the nonprofit organization Climate Central found, land that is home to at least 10 per cent of the global population could end up at least partially underwater.

Researchers looked at 50 major cities worldwide to project how a range of global warming scenarios — from 1.1 to 4 degrees Celsius of warming — would impact their local sea levels in the coming centuries.