Ice-free future? Welcome to the Seattle and Portland Islands!

I’ve been peering out at Queen Anne Hill from my Eastlake Seattle window for some time wondering what the hill would look like on an ice-free planet, Lake Union long having become part of Puget Sound.  I’ve played with a map tool to envision the contours of Queen Anne Island and the Seattle Island chain.  Now Spatialities has done ice-free planet maps for Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles, and they are selling them at their site. Here are Cascadia’s future Seattle and Portland Islands if we are so foolish as to continue on our current trajectory. (Click on the maps for larger size.) These are beautiful depictions of a horrendous future.  May they help motivate us not to go there.  (p.s. I'm about 10 stories underwater by then.)

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A few years back I even wrote some lyrics on the topic. Here they are:  

THE SEATTLE ISLANDS

Take the ferry boat

To Queen Anne Island

Puget Sound’s a moat

All around is a fried land

Aurora fell down

Dead of suicide

In the waves it drowned

When the ice caps fried

Used to be a lake

Down there somewhere

Until the ice break

In the hot summer air

The lake was my home

Beyond were the mountains

But the future was blown

Cause we were not accountin’

With our gaseous spew

We boiled the oceans

Cared for by too few

We set it in motion

City once here

Now flushed down the drain

Old hilltops appear

Island chain remains

Live on Capitol

Take the Beacon boat

We have paid the toll

We have cut our throat