Issue (WIWE) status: Submitted, Unpublished

Wild Card's progress: Nominated

This Wild Card came from: 
Academic/scientific journals

The source of this Wild Card: 
Rignot E (2008). "Changes in West Antarctic ice stream dynamics observed with ALOS PALSAR data". Geophys. Res. Lett. 35: L12505. doi:10.1029/2008GL033365

Likelihood timeframe and scenario features : 
now-2050+

Wild Card's description: 

Global sea level rises over 3 meters in weeks. All major coastal metropolitan areas (New York, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai, etc.) are submerged and become uninhabitable.