City of Toronto

The City of Toronto is often brought up as a topic of discussion, as observation from across Lake Ontario have shown that the city can appear to be sunken. This is given as evidence of the curvature of the Earth.

CN Tower Height

It has been questioned why the CN Tower appears two-thirds as tall as it should. The following image is provided, showing that an overlay of an unobstructed view of the city shows that a significant part of the tower is 'below the horizon'. One-third of the tower appears to be missing:

The final superimposed image does show that part of the tower appears to be missing. But it also suggests that the Earth should obscure buildings to the left of the tower, showing that it is not actually the curvature of the Earth causing this phenomenon. Indeed, this appears to be a mistaken set of assumptions. The scene appears to be compressed, and this compression is mistaken with curvature.