Climate and energy choices this decade will influence how high sea levels rise for hundreds of years.

If we keep our current carbon path
(3°C global warming)

(3°C warming)

Derivative of Chhatrapati shivaji maharaj vastu sangrahalaya museum, esterno 01 by Sailko under CC BY 3.0

If we sharply cut carbon pollution
(1.5°C global warming)

(1.5°C warming)

Chhatrapati shivaji maharaj vastu sangrahalaya museum, esterno 01 by Sailko under CC BY 3.0, Modified

These images show projected future sea levels at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in Mumbai, India due to human-caused global warming under two different scenarios. Climate and energy choices in the coming few decades could set the destination, but the timing of rise is more difficult to project: these sea levels may take hundreds of years to be fully realized.