A new study has confirmed that the Gulf Stream, a crucial ocean current that helps regulate climate and sea levels, is weakening. The flow of warm water through the Florida Straits has slowed by 4% over the past four decades. This slowdown has significant implications for the world’s climate, and scientists are concerned that it may be a sign of further weakening to come.
Given that we’re already losing entire island nations, I’m not sure even that will do it.
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They are still building high-rises 50M from the shoreline in Miami, FL.
There is no saving it, you can’t build a seawall on limestone. Did I mention the limestone is dissolving due to acidification?
Folks in Venice are regularly up to their knees in water already. New Orleans still has 25% less population than it did before Katrina. It’s already affecting major coastal cities in western countries, and even that doesn’t matter.
This guy got it right: the entire western sociopolitical system is designed to stop this kind of problem from being solved.
yeah, where the rich people keep their stuff.
The ‘right’ people will go somewhere else, Mt. Everest isn’t going underwater anytime soon, there’s plenty of places for the ‘right’ people to relocate their summer vacation mansions.