Can someone tell me whether sea level rises are still a concern and if so, why no one seems concerned?
When I was a kid that was the big scary climate change thing. I know it’s maybe only 50cm but that’s still problematic for lots of real estate… isn’t it?
Like just the other day I visited an expensive apartment that would’ve been maybe 50cm above sea level.
The rising of the sea is astronomically slow, so there’s a lot of denial about it. It’s already a minor (maybe moderate?) problem here on the east coast of the US. Boston, NYC, and Miami are already seeing more flooding during storms than they saw historically.
But if there’s someone who is willing to pay for a waterfront property despite the risk, then there will always be someone willing to sell it to them.
But here in Boston, we’re finally starting to see new construction projects taking future sea level rise into account: https://www.baysideupdate.com/#:~:text=By raising the Project Site,and protect the surrounding neighborhood
I like how my head switched from how scary an alien invasion would be to thinking that aliens coming here and fixing this mess is our only hope at this point
It just takes a set of policy decisions. Aliens not required.
I’m not sure. I’m worried that we’re already in the feedback loop.
I’m not sure. I’m worried that we’re already in the feedback loop.
We’d literally have to halt all emissions and start massive “rewilding” projects to turn this puppy around. Remember 2020 when human industrial activity paused for a while and nature took some time to take a breath? We will need things like that but all the time. Perhaps have arbour day a monthly thing? Perhaps close all factories over the weekend? Perhaps move to 3 day weekends? Perhaps make an ordinance that 50% of each country needs to be natural untouched protected wilderness? Who knows? We need a lot of solutions NOW.
It’s too late
Not everyone will be amicable, the capitalist boomers will still hear it in one ear and then let it exit the other ear.
Aliens/“work of God” is needed.
That globe is amazing! i would love to have a globe like that.
Libraries do cool things.
My refrigerator does cool things too.
But is it running?
To my knowledge, refrigerators are not eligible to hold any political office.
A shame. They might do better than MAGA Republicans.
If not, make sure the refrigerant is disposed of properly. They tend to be incredibly potent greenhouse gases
Well not on Tuesdays and Thursdays, that’s when I unplug them. Then on Saturdays, I plug it in to two sockets at once for that primo cooling experience.
Man, oceanographers have been shouting this for decades. And let’s just throw marine biologists/marine chemists in there as well. Ocean currents are stupidly powerful, to have them stop is scary beyond comparison. The warning temperature lifting the calcium carbonate compensation depth, literally acidifying the ocean past the point of habitability for everything but jelly fish… Good bye oxygen. It was fun hanging with y’all, break out the good stuff because you aren’t handing it down to the next generation.
It was fun hanging with y’all, break out the good stuff because you aren’t handing it down to the next generation.
Parents often say that they love their children and would do anything for them, but they didn’t love them enough to give their children a habitable future.
I don’t think that’s fair.
If there was something they could do as an individual which would help only their individual child have a habitable future, they would absolutely do it.
Thing is, everything they can do either only works if we all do it or only helps every child equally (a tiiiny bit) while costing the parent individually.
It’s a coordination problem. Humans lack the structures to coordinate as a species (the largest unit of coordination we have is a nation and even that doesn’t work well).
Are you a boomer or were you raised by a boomer because I call bullshit. The “me” generation could have done a lot of things and didn’t do any of them.
Most of them don’t actually love their children. Not the way we mean it today. The children were left to figure it all out on their own. Ask any gen X or older millennial.
Children weren’t outside because people were less fearful, they were locked out of the house and forced to fend for themselves.
The only loving families for most were those portrayed in television.
“What I do won’t matter” said by every individual is exactly how nothing changes.
Sure the ocean won’t suffer for the loss of a few individual drops of water. But if there are no drops of water at all, there is no ocean.
We are all drops.
Yeah it isn’t fair that i punch everyone equally because climate change is everybody’s problem.
The least they can do as a parent is tell their children to reduce, reuse and recycle, Using public transportation or cycling to go everywhere, turn off the lights or electronics when they’re not using it. It’s a small thing but if everyone does it slowly earth can be a better place.
If we teach our child to do good for the environment our child can teach their children to do more good and before you know it it becomes a generational effort.
none of that would have ever made any difference. the scale of industrys vs individuals is staggering.
I know, it’s the least they can do. It’s like the parents abuse chain if we can educate the next generation to do better while we try the best we can do to fix.
I know, it’s the least they can do.
You bought into corporate propaganda that individuals are responsible for climate change and not the top 100 polluting corporations.
Hook line and sinker.
There is absolutely fucking nothing that recycling does to stop this. Most of the developed worlds “recycling” gets shipped to third world nations who dump it in landfill or the ocean.
My mum owns a house and everytime they try to build housing around me she tries her best to prevent it.
Kinda miss having my grandparents generation around because they tried and did make the country a better place for their children. They also knew how hard things were (obviously it was way worse for them than for me).
“lifting the calcium carbonate compensation depth”
Wouldn’t increased CaCO3 dissolution increase pH? I’m surely misunderstanding you — presumptively there’s less compensation allowing more CO2 / carbonic acid?
I’m out of my depth…
Man, oceanographers have been shouting this for decades. And let’s just throw marine biologists/marine chemists in there as well. Ocean currents are stupidly powerful, to have them stop is scary beyond comparison. The warning temperature lifting the calcium carbonate compensation depth, literally acidifying the ocean past the point of habitability for everything but jelly fish… Good bye oxygen. It was fun hanging with y’all, break out the good stuff because you aren’t handing it down to the next generation.
No shit. Well, lots of shit actually. And, it’s about to hit the fan.
I never thought my desire to turn my own game off would actually be an asset, but it sure does make accepting the inevitable an easy pill.
I recommend getting counseling and engaging in activism.
How bad it gets is very much under human control still
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I’ve had better days. I’ve had worse days.
Meanwhile, some world leaders are absolutely perplexed as to why their citizens aren’t choosing to have children.
I used to work with ocean researchers and they are some of the most depressed, heavy drinkers I’ve ever met. A big reason I moved on from that workplace.
Imagine writing scientific papers on an ocean you already know is dead. Research which is funded by the government, the same people who allow clear cut logging inland which has decimated the salmon population, which is vital to ocean life. So you better not be too loud about that when it’s time to apply for more funding.
Clear cut logging, so our useless commonwealth friends over in the Atlantic have wood chips to burn and toilet paper to waste.
Or, the absolute molestation of our mountains so the rest of the world can buy more phones and EVs, which has destroyed said watersheds.
Another 70 degree day! Perfect weather! February is the best time to start spring.
It’s still pretty cold here in the PNW. 36°F yesterday morning now 45°F tonight.
Sure, in Sicily. Not Chicago.
And then 34 tomorrow. Lol, lmao.
i’m so glad i don’t have to worry about retirement
It doesn’t follow that large scale drops in human population happen within the next few decades
I’m saving for retirement, but I’m not expecting money to matter by the time I get to that age.
I’m shorting the US. Will be fun paying down all my debt with green toilet paper.
What branch of the military are you hoping to serve in during the Water Wars?
Haha, like we will get to pick… we will be in the meat wave corps my brother
Suicide.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country…
The hydration wars
This is the best summary I could come up with:
From his office at the University of Miami, Brian McNoldy, an expert in hurricane formation, is tracking the latest temperature data from the North Atlantic with a mixture of concern and bewilderment.
Across the unusually warm Atlantic, in Cambridge, England, Rob Larter, a marine scientist who tracks polar ice levels, is equally perplexed.
The current El Niño weather cycle is also leading to additional heat in the Pacific Ocean and allowing more energy to be released into the atmosphere.
Recent research has suggested that as glaciers melt and more fresh water enters the Atlantic, a crucial ocean current could falter, potentially leading to drastic changes in global weather patterns, such as a rapid reduction in temperatures across Europe.
Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from the Central Park Zoo and became a New York City icon, died last Friday after he flew into a building.
In Central Park on Saturday, mourners carrying flowers and binoculars wandered among some of Flaco’s favorite oak trees, searching for the right spot to pay tribute, my colleague Ed Shanahan reported.
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Lol @ the abrupt left turn to Flaco the owl.
First Harambe, now Flaco.
We’re two already horsemen deep and nobody seems to notice
Dicks out?
Dicks out for Harambe, stay flaccid for Flaco.
Came for climate doom, stayed for Flaco.
As opposed to an omen of the …
. . . past, correct. An omen of the past is always, very . . . ominous.
Florida can’t sink quick enough
Scientists, probably: our models or data are incomplete so can’t fully explain or predict this. We should investigate to refine our models
Conservatives, most likely: scientists are wrong about global warming again. Why should we listen to this?
Yes. Hot getting hotter is hard to understand.
It’s much easier to understand that shorter, milder winters means you can make people be even more productive. Now winter can’t slow down that road widening project.
Scientists should stop trying to predict Gods will.
God should stop willing a shitty world then.
Assuming you’re joking, this is why /s is sometimes required
So should the people who believe in Him.
