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Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments

95 pointsby jacquesmtoday at 4:24 PM56 commentsview on HN

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sebmellentoday at 5:44 PM

The saddest part of global turmoil around AI, Iran war, etc. is how dramatically climate change has disappeared from the 'global conversation'. This is not something we can afford to ignore for much longer.

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pjmlptoday at 7:42 PM

We just started another war with unforeseen consequences to the planet, while destroying all resources to feed the AI monster, forget about all those paper straws.

metalmantoday at 7:11 PM

Watch your warming oceans expand in real time here

https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today

above shows what may be the earliest ever peak sea ice

and

https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/products/ocean/sst/contour/

and the one above is absolutly terrifying , or should be to wanabe hegemnons thinking that the naritive, is thiers.

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measurablefunctoday at 7:33 PM

In almost every fictional story¹ dealing w/ near future outcomes every author just assumes that Miami & New York are under water.

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future

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cadamsdotcomtoday at 9:27 PM

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