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 Longshan Temple, Taipei 01 by Bernard Gagnon under CC BY-SA 3.0

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

(1.5°C warming)

Longshan Temple, Taipei 01 by Bernard Gagnon under CC BY-SA 3.0

These images show projected future sea levels at Lungshan Temple in Taipei, Taiwan (Province of China) 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.