Wednesday, 6 March 2019

A World Without Clouds

quote [ Once clouds go away, the simulated climate “goes over a cliff,” said Kerry Emanuel, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ]

Getting your daily apocalyptic fix.
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+2]
[by Paracetamol@9:18pmGMT]

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steele said @ 3:17am GMT on 7th Mar
As mentioned here: Fighting for climate action with 'The Uninhabitable Earth' author David Wallace-Wells: podcast and transcript I'm like halfway through the transcript and need to take a mental safety break. But like, it really needs to be read/heard.

Because then there's this...
I was talking to a really prominent climate scientist a few months ago, who was one of the lead authors of the IPCC last report, and has been doing a lot of consulting work in New York City where he lives. So I said, "Are we gonna build a sea wall in New York?" And he said, "Oh, of course we'll build a sea wall. Manhattan real estate's way too expensive to lose." But those kinds of projects ... You look at the subway, it takes 30 years.

If we started now, he said, we couldn't build it fast enough to save parts of Howard Beach, South Brooklyn, Queens. He said, "The city knows this, and you're gonna start seeing them stopping infrastructure repair, not doing work on the subway lines and even telling those residents explicitly, 'You might be able to live here for another 20 years, but you're not gonna be able to leave this house for your kids.'" This is in New York City.


Being a Florida resident this is something I think about a lot. We're due for another market crash and the sharks are sure to circle and pick off their Climate Gentrification deals... Leaving pretty much most of my friends and family screwed because even if they hold out through the dip, the market is just going to become more and more erratic as people realize how fucked we are.

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