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- garpujol ( @garpujol@discuss.online ) 24•24 days ago
While making laws preventing abusive homeownership right? Right?
- captainastronaut ( @captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org ) English12•23 days ago
I live in a progressive city in a progressive state, that claims to believe climate change is real. We just spent the last 10 years rebuilding the seawall that protects our precious iconic waterfront district. It was rebuilt exactly 0 inches taller than before, because increasing the height did not create short term profits.
We deserve what’s coming.
- Ben Matthews ( @benjhm@sopuli.xyz ) English11•24 days ago
Ireland has a long coastline but most of it near mountains, so there is fortunately scope to gradually retreat uphill. The large flat part is in the middle - the central Shannon basin is only 35m above sea-level, but unless East Antarctica goes too, that’s safe for the moment. As for temperature rise, it’s a cool country that may expect relatively little warming, due to the cold blob south of greenland, at least while ice continues melting. So, Ireland may need to prepare for large influx of people escaping heat elsewhere.
- protist ( @protist@mander.xyz ) English7•24 days ago
Until the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation stops, plunging Ireland’s temperatures by an average of 15°
- masterofn001 ( @masterofn001@lemmy.ca ) 4•24 days ago
As a Canadian with Irish grandparents I look forward to claiming my Irish citizenship.
15° cooler (C or F) would be lovely.
- protist ( @protist@mander.xyz ) English5•23 days ago
I should have clarified 15°C, which would be a shift of 27°F. It’s hard to overstate how devastating that would be to the ecology of Northern Europe, potentially sending Ireland near permafrost territory and ending agriculture and pastoralism as they know it
- Ben Matthews ( @benjhm@sopuli.xyz ) English2•23 days ago
It slows down, an effect of cold water from melting ice passing south of greenland, which has a local cooling effect, while the atlantic as a whole gets warmer. Consequence is a greater heat contrast along that front, which may intensify the sequence of low pressures bringing wind and rain, which is what Ireland has just experienced this summer. But the high-resolution models do not show that AMOC stops abruptly, that was a feature of simpler models designed to replicate palaeoclimatic changes at the end of the ice ages, when the amount of ice available to melt was much higher.
- Obi ( @Obi@sopuli.xyz ) 2•23 days ago
Yeah there’s a bit to go before the sea goes over the cliffs of Moher for sure.
- JoShmoe ( @JoShmoe@ani.social ) English11•24 days ago
So many doomed cities
- tiredofsametab ( @tiredofsametab@fedia.io ) 8•24 days ago
chuckles in Japanese I’m in danger.
/ well, I live a few km inland and outside of tsunami risk for now. I probably won’t live long enough for that to change too much since I’m already in my 40s.
- peanuts4life ( @peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•24 days ago
cries in Florida man
- Lexam ( @Lexam@lemmy.ca ) English4•23 days ago
Laughs in Midwestern.
- BallsandBayonets ( @BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world ) 3•23 days ago
You laugh now, but wait until the entire population of New York and Florida are knocking at your door. That is, the population that doesn’t see the writing on the wall and leave for Colorado first.
- Lexam ( @Lexam@lemmy.ca ) English1•22 days ago
Please as if we haven’t been dealing with an influx from the coast driving up our prices for the last decade already.
- Hirom ( @Hirom@beehaw.org ) 3•22 days ago
We have geo-engineered our way into this climate crisis
Well said.