Plantagenet wrote:Its time to start planning our retreat from the coasts now
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Some coastal cities like New York and Miami are raising their street levels and building higher seawalls in attempt to keep the sea water out. This is futile and a waste of resources.
Its time to start planning our retreat from the coasts now. Rather then wasting money trying to save our existing coastal cities, we'd be smarter to be planning our retreat from all low-lying coastal areas. Then we need to identify safe areas where all the climate refugees can go, and we need to build enough housing for them there.
Cheers!
jedrider wrote:Retreat! No, put people in harms way.
jedrider wrote:How many people died in the Bahamas? Population reduction has a long way to go..... Who will even take the survivors now?
jedrider wrote:There goes my dream of retiring on a tropical island or, maybe, not. Cheap land.
Its hard to know which beachfront lot to buy.....
Newfie wrote:Paywall. But no matter I think we have passed that point a looong time ago. Not because of the physical processes but because of our inability to react to it.
It’s not gonna kill us this century, but it will sure make life miserable in the future.
Newfie wrote:If you can find a synopsis please post it in the run away global warming thread where Cid used to post so heavily.
He deserves a “good ya so” or three.
Alaskans travel by kayak.asg70 wrote:Plant, please stop flying around the world already. Enough is enough with your hypocrisy.
Keith_McClary wrote: Alaskans travel by kayak.
The Amazon rainforest is "teetering on the edge" of an irreversible threshold that would turn it into a savanna, a group of top scientists warn.
That's because humans have been cutting and burning the forest, which allows moisture to escape the ecosystem.
Enough deforestation could trigger a process called "dieback," in which the rainforest would dry up, burn, and become a savanna-like landscape, releasing up to 140 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere.
Experts fear the Amazon rainforest has reached a catastrophic tipping point.
Leading rainforest scientists Thomas Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre warned in an editorial published Thursday that deforestation in the world's largest rainforest has led the Amazon to the brink of an irreversible process called "dieback."
That scenario would turn the Amazon into an African-savanna-type landscape. The tropical trees — and the fauna they support — would disappear, releasing up to 140 billion tons of stored carbon into the atmosphere, causing an uptick in already rising global temperatures.
Plantagenet wrote:German Green party says the EU should take in 140 million climate refugees
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