Last month, a friend who works at Climate Central, a non-profit that acts as a clearinghouse for information about climate change, asked me to shoot an image for the cover of a new scientific report that would be distributed in Copenhagen. We had less than a week to cast a set of identical twin girls, pull together a crew willing to work pro bono, location scout, pull wardrobe, and shoot. We did it! (Though sadly, we could not get 30+ scientists to agree to use a narrative image rather than a graph as the report cover.)

The gist of the image is that 10 years ago, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its last major report (for which the authors won a Nobel), they all thought sea levels would only rise about 13″ by 2100.