Video reveals effects of climate change in Manhattan
Experts have warned that New York City could one day be submerged by rising sea levels and now that the US has pulled out of the Paris Agreement, many Americans are left wondering what the future holds for the Big Apple. However, a video has surfaced online that has revealed the catastrophic effects of climate change on the massive city, which could become a reality over the next 60 to 80 years. Tops of skyscrapers are barely peeking out of the murky water, streets have been transformed into flowing rivers and what was once home to 8.4 million people, is depicted as a ghost town in the shocking footage. The video entitled, ' ' was created by to film makers 'Claire&Max' Countour, who wanted to highlight what New York City would 'look like if there was a rise in water. 'We are concerned with global warming, and the rising waters is only one representation among others of global warming,' Max told DailyMail.com in an email. 'We considered this video as an alert so that people become even more aware of the danger.' 'The Paris Agreement limited to 2 degrees : these 2 degrees were already dangerous, but the recent US withdrawal is unconscious.' 'We don't need to be specialist or scientists to consider this act as unconscious.' The nearly four minute video begins with an image of New York City that may be unsettling the water has risen so high that many of its monstrous skyscrapers are barely peaking up from a watery grave. Fifth Avenue, Wall Street and Time Square, all of which used to be filled with hundreds of people on any given day, are shown completely empty and submerged in water. And Grand Central Station, which attracts people from all over the world, looks more like a large watering hole instead of a busy train station. The video continues to show different areas of New York, all of which tell the same story, but what may be one of the most unsettling aspects is that a city that has 8.4 million residents and 50 million people visiting each year is completely empty. 'Climate change is a new marker in our history. Man can now affect the climate, we are now in the anthropocene era,' said Max. 'Fortunately we have become aware of it and we must put all possible means to ensure that future generations enjoy a better environment. 'Antoine de St Exupery said :' We do not inherit the land of our parents, we borrow it from our children.' 'The video was done with 2 steps : first, we deleted the people of the streets (like our precedent work in Pairs 'Hypocentre') and then we add the water,' he continued. 'The water is a 3D modelization. We choose NYC because like Paris, NYC is our 'laboratory' for our experimental films.' 'We are fortunate to be able to come regularly to NYC and we love deeply NYC. The title of the clip, 'Two C', was inspired by a recent study from a team of American researchers that noted 2 C global warming is dangerous and could have catastrophic effects on our world over the next couple of decades. 'The IPCC , an intergovernmental panel of experts on climate change, predicted an average increase of 1 meter by 2100: their model underestimated the melting of the ice,' Claire and Max shared in a blog post. 'For James Hansen [one of the American researchers], these 2 would still remain dangerous because it integrates in its recent models the melting of the ice: it estimates an increase of 5 to 9m by 2080.' The video was shared online two days prior to Donald Trump making the announcement that the US was pulling out of the Paris agreement citing it was bad for American jobs and bad for the environment. Trump complained in the White House's Rose Garden that major polluters like China are allowed to increase their emissions under the agreement in a way that the US cannot. India is hinging its participation on billions of dollars of foreign aid. 'The bottom line is that the Paris Accord is very unfair, at the highest level, to the United States,' he said. He argued later, 'The agreement is a massive redistribution of United States wealth to other countries.' 'This agreement is less about the climate and more about other countries gaining a financial advantage over the United States,' he contended. Trump said he would end the United States' participation in the United Nations' Green Climate Fund for the same reason. Although the US president listed multiple reasons to why the nation should and is leaving the agreement, many Americans are not on board with the decision and are worried what the future holds for not just their country, but for the entire world.