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 (DIR) Post #AzQltbGEtVWhFXN7i4 by joncounts@mastodon.nz
       2025-10-21T10:17:11Z
       
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       There's an alarming new article in the science magazine article #Quanta titled "How Soon Will the Seas Rise?""The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen — and how fast — is anything but settled. "Note it's now "when", not "if".I've now lived through the optimistic age of science articles all focused on telling us how very bad things are going to be if we don't do something. We're now shifting into the age of science articles telling us that some of those very bad things we were warned about are now unavoidable but we don't know how soon they'll happen.The 5 m rise is just from the West Antarctic ice sheet. Add in Greenland and the expansion of the warming ocean waters and other glaciers we could get 15 m rise.Still, please do something. We'll now lose our coastal cities in a few generations, including my home of Christchurch, NZ, but there's still so much bad we can avoid if we act now.https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-soon-will-the-seas-rise-20251020/#ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise #ActNOW
       
 (DIR) Post #AzRTH8W7i7l556GroG by vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2025-10-21T18:26:10Z
       
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       @joncountsThere's a permanent fix. Could be done relatively easily with a big budget, but no government would want to release it. It'll create upheaval of society and technology like nobody can imagine. Working on it because nobody else will.@lightweight