Here I have collected some additional material that may be useful to the press. You can find alternative images that put the story into context.

Alternative figures:
I've made 3 different versions of the PR figure. High res versions are here.


Pictures of flooding events
pictures from flooding events caused by extreme events (storm surges) are relevant because the likelihood of critically high sea level greatly increases when mean sea level rises even 30 cm (we project ~1 m rise).

• The strong tidal surge hitting east anglia, UK in nov9 2007. Nasa image and a photo from freefotouk (creative commons).
• FEMA has a large photo library. in that there are lots of photos of the damage after storm surges (mostly from tropical cyclones). They can be used for free i think.
  
• Venice had a very recent flooding event. Here's a fun youtube video of wakeboarding in the Marcus Square. A lot of the flooding was caused by rain, but if the canal water levels were substantially lower then it would not have resulted in flooding.
  
• Some useful photos from Flickr with a creative commons license that allows commercial use: Storm surges in UK
• The flooding in Myanmar caused by Tropical Cyclone Nargis. Sat-Photo from NASA.
• I would also recommend the photos of a storm surge at Guernsey island by Richard Lord here.
  
• paphotos.com also have a really nice photo with id: emp.1530700 
• Old Archive photos from NOAA can be used free of charge (here are the terms).

Storm surge from Hurricane Carol lashes Rhode Island Yacht Club
Rhode Island 1969
Photo credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce


New Orleans/ Katrina photos have complications due to local factors. (Although it is clear that, if mean sea level is a meter higher, then you dont need quite as big a storm to surmount the obstacles. therefore the likelihood of such devastating impacts greatly increases. -Assuming adequate adaptive measures are not taken).

Inundation maps are available from CReSIS.
The indundation figures from the cresis website can be used if proper credit is given. I was instructed that you can use these images by simply giving credit to the CReSIS and Haskell organizations and the webpage.
Map Credit: "CReSIS.ku.edu/Haskell Indian Nations University"






Links to other useful material:

• Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. (Aslak Grinsted)
  
• Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland. (John C. Moore)
  
• Thule Institute, University of Oulu, Finland. (John C. Moore)
  
• Permanent Service for Mean Seal Level at Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, UK. (Svetlana Jevrejeva)
• IPCC AR4 report.
  
• In the press release we state something about exceptionally high sea level occurring 1000 times more often for a 1 metre rise in sea level. Here's some support for that: Tsimplis and Blackman 97 and Pirazzoli and Tomasin 2007. It is especially obvious from figure 9 in Pirazzoli.
• New report from USGS with very similar conclusions.
• Some other recent studies with similar conclusions