What, exactly, is "West Antarctica"?
The half in the Western Hemisphere?
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#52What's the best way to profit from rising sea levels? Investing in land that's higher up in our nearby coastal cities?
Coastal cities are unlikely to be flooded in our lifetimes. We're looking at about 1m [1] sea level rise in 100 years, or 50cm in our lifetime. That means coastal cities will face more severe storms, not ending up submerged. [2] "Pfeffer adds estimates of sea level rise due to thermal expansion and ice melting to calving approximations and concludes that SLR by the end of the century will range 0.8 to 2.0 m above pre…
Isn't Miami already having problems with flooding at high tide? It doesn't seem like it would take that big of a change from them to have flooding problems when it isn't high tide.
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#53What, exactly, is "West Antarctica"?
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Renewable energy. Once things get bad enough the world will wake up and renewables will become huge.
I am wondering if by the time we wake up it's too late for renewable energy. Given that the methane is literally exploding out of the ground in Siberia it already might be too late. I am afraid it might be a likely scenario that the hod outs especially in the US will go from denial to resignation.
Why are you afraid of the hod outs going from denial to resignation? At least if they are experiencing resignation they will be willing to admit there is a problem and do something about it (admittedly, it will be too late, but...)
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#56This is why big countries suck. They are slow to change and a wrong move is horribly damaging. Look at the US or China, no matter how I or all my countrymen live in Sweden it won't really matter if climate change deniers get in charge in the US for example. I just think it's so sad to see everything go to shit due to some greedy assholes that won't invest in solutions that are effective AND sustainable. I plan to bec…
I think big countries should be made to pay the smaller ones affected by climate change.
We weren't the ones that caused it but will be made to suffer the most because of it(rising tides, effects on the ocean which we depend on for our food source, lack of rainfall).
We are very much seeing the effects already!
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bamboo rots and emits methane.
Yeah, you'd have to bury it deep enough to prevent decomposition within a few hundred years. Holes that big are hard to do without heavy machinery which guzzle fossil fuels.
I wonder if you can sink the bamboo in the sea?
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
The half in the Western Hemisphere?
Does it then follow that the half between meridians +90° and -90° is "Northern Antarctica"?
I've never heard of Northern Antarctica. The questions was about West Antarctica, which makes total sense since the globe is laterally made up of a western and eastern hemisphere. But since Antarctica is in the southern hemisphere, talking about Northern Antarctica doesn't make much sense other than talking about any point away from the south pole. Maybe you are confused by the concept of a hemisphere?
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#59Grow bamboo. Harvest it. Bury it. That's the sort of thing we have to start thinking about.
Before you bury it, convert it to biochar. This keeps it from rotting into methane and escaping and improves the soil requiring less water and fertilizer to grow crops.
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#60This is why big countries suck. They are slow to change and a wrong move is horribly damaging. Look at the US or China, no matter how I or all my countrymen live in Sweden it won't really matter if climate change deniers get in charge in the US for example. I just think it's so sad to see everything go to shit due to some greedy assholes that won't invest in solutions that are effective AND sustainable. I plan to bec…
China halts work on partly built coal plants. http://dailytimes.com.pk/business/23-Oct-16/china-axes-part-...
And their renewables deployment is so fast, overcapacity is a concern.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/chinas-growth-in-renewable-...
EDIT: I'm not ready to call climate change solved yet, but at the deployment trajectory China is on, the rest of the world will have no choice but to follow, as China is pushing renewable generation costs very low (which undercuts nuclear and fossil fuels, pushing their prices higher making renewables even more competitive). Solar and wind are both below 3 cents/kWh unsubsidized, with wind expected to fall another 15% in the next 2-3 years, and solar another 25% in the same time period.