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| Florida Coastline degradation |
Now, the state of Florida is experiencing the same phenomena: water disasters (Florida Coastline degradation).
Meanwhile, at yet another climate change gathering President Biden spoke some sobering words to the gathering:
“We can no longer plead ignorance to the consequences of our actions, or continue to repeat our mistakes ...”
(Biden says climate efforts ‘more urgent than ever’ at summit). Seaports are being impacted by this growing danger:
"Over the last 100 years, average sea level — as measured by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency tide gauge that's been in place for a century at Naval Station Norfolk — has risen 18 inches. According to NOAA projections, it is expected to rise between 1-3 feet by 2050."
(DOD, Navy Confront Climate Change Challenges in Southern Virginia). Some of the people who lost homes in the Florida episode shown in the photo at the top of this post "were totally unaware" this could happen.
It isn't something that state officials want to talk about (Whatever You Call It, Sea Level Rises in Virginia).
But the information has been available for a long time.
Dredd Blog has been pointing out, for over a decade, that the military has seen this as a major threat (Global Climate & Homeland Insecurity).
Here is the menu of appendixes for today's post:
| (HTML) Single Coastline Countries | (HTML) Multi Coastline Countries | Coastline Graphs |
| Appendix: A-C | Appendix: A-C | Appendix: A-C |
| Appendix: D-G | Appendix: D-G | Appendix: D-G |
| Appendix: H-L | Appendix: H-L | Appendix: H-L |
| Appendix: M-O | Appendix: M-O | Appendix: M-O |
| Appendix: P-T | Appendix: P-T | Appendix: P-T |
| Appendix: U-Z | Appendix: U-Z | Appendix: U-Z |
The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.
"The Military is the lead federal agency on climate change ... and that is ... extremely dangerous ... we may lose the republic ..." - Professor Wilkerson (ret. colonel)
National Climate Plan Insufficient to Avert Crisis (Link)
ReplyDeleteIt's been evident for years that we are already "in crisis" and yet, this is still being broadly ignored and still denied by numerous media outlets, industry and politicians (to say nothing about the idiotic denialists).
ReplyDeleteI still contend that until massive, major suffering and death occurs (millions dead) will the world finally take the necessary steps, but of course, that will be too late.
I still closely follow climate news, reports, events, studies and the associated analysis, but I'm not publishing my own findings like I used to. I am not seeing the essential unity or significant action anywhere on the planet, just more delays and insufficient steps being meagerly taken.
Greenwashing and deflection of reality is just as prevalent as it ever was. We are woefully under-prepared and ill-equipped to adequately respond to the dangers of deadly climate change, an inherent feature in our oil-soaked civilization that chooses business survival over human survival and the extinction of probably all species, certainly all mammals.
The usual suspects (media, government, even science) are still trotting out the same phony claims and misguided stories to deflect from the forthcoming horror. Astute climate watchers will recognize this and take notice - they are STILL miserably failing us all.
There is a misguided assumption that humanity is going to be able to "switch" off the unfolding climate danger whenever it finally decides to take decisive actions, but of course, this is terrifyingly untrue. Virtually all of the news continues to claim that we're going to "solve" the climate crisis in time without what is apparently a very weak understanding of actually how, or even when, and without acknowledging the sheer impossibility of preventing further warming and the associated global destruction this entails. To say "they don't get it" is a massive understatement.
My kids and my grand kids will endure life as a hell on Earth, of this I have no doubt whatsoever, because it is factually impossible to prevent further and exceedingly dangerous warming within their lifetimes. Their still claiming the proven lie that 1.5C "limit" is "still possible" when it's obviously not. What a horrible joke this is.
Climate systems have already irrevocably tipped and cannot now be stopped no matter what we do for at least several hundred years. The empty promises that continue to be portrayed as "solutions" to this problem are grossly dishonest and misrepresent the terrifying future we are all facing.
I won't live to see most of it, but my kids will. "We can't replace the missing ice" is more true now then ever. I wish it weren't so. I wish we had chosen a different path, but we didn't. ~Survival Acres~
Example of what I am always referring to:
ReplyDeleteCO2 Is on Track to Hit a Record High in 2022 And Shows No Signs of Going Down
"To have any chance of staying below the international[ly] agreed 1.5C global warming target we need to have large annual cuts in emissions – which there is no sign of."
https://www.sciencealert.com/co2-is-on-track-to-hit-a-record-high-in-2022-and-shows-no-signs-of-going-down
It's utterly ridiculous. Only by moving the goal posts can science claim that there is a "chance" at this bogus "limit", but even this technique doesn't prevent dangerous and deadly warming - it just tries to cover it all up. Industry has no intentions of ending their contributions and neither does anyone else.
"Perhaps the only thing on which everyone agrees in this moment of global stress is that not enough has been done to meet the 2015 Paris climate accord target of ideally limiting the increase in global warming to 1.5 degrees Centigrade. That’s a valid conclusion. According to a U.N. report published this month, the planet’s warming will reach 2.4 degrees Centigrade by 2100." (Fighting a War on the Wrong Planet)
ReplyDelete"For the first time, the nations of the world decided to help pay for the damage an overheating world is inflicting on poor countries, but they finished marathon climate talks on Sunday without further addressing the root cause of those disasters — the burning of fossil fuels." (Link)
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