Building wall not enough to stop sea level rising, research says
Building wall not enough to stop sea level rising, research says
New research suggests even building a giant wall in the sea would not be enough to stop sea level rise stemming from two crucial Antarctic glaciers.
This is exactly why I made sure when buying my house/section that it was more than 5m higher than sea level and inland from the coast. Not that that will mitigate the societal collapse following the glaciers'.
The world might be able to geoengineer saving one maybe two glaciers. But not all of them, not Greenland's icesheet and not the entire Antarctic icesheet.
Yep 5m of sea level rise is basically locked in to happen
Yup. It's already too late, even if all emissions stopped yesterday.
But at least we created some shareholder value.
No it's never 'too late'. The range of potential sea level rise is wide and difficult to predict accurately: https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2018/07/30/how-much-sea-level-rise-is-actually-locked-in/
It's important that we don't give in to defeatism. Every little helps and we can still make a difference for future generations: https://plana.earth/academy/is-it-too-late-for-our-planet
I have to admit it never occurred to me that anyone thought building a giant wall was going to fix this.
I initially thought it was an onion article.
Can I rant for a second?
Fuck the internet.
I almost blocked this community cause I thought it was another political post.
Fuck the news, fuck shiddit, fuck social media, bring back the true internet!
Anyways yeah, lots of places are gonna be the next Atlantis if the sea levels keep rising
Maybe you should make yourself a Neocities page, that's like pre-social media internet...
And Palmy will become a tropical seaside city!
Truely a distopian future lies before us...