Rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities
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#2Is the ground water near a coast line brackish?
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#3Who is 'thinknewsmedia' who wrote this 'could' article? The link to Vkontakte at base suggests the site is Russian?
Re: Rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities
#4Is the ground water near a coast line brackish?
On the Florida and Texas coasts the groundwater is brackish, and with the increasing sea levels from AGW, that salinity is intruding further and further inland.
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#5Someone submitted this a few posts earlier: "The Amazon is turning into savannah – we have 5 years to save it", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29540946
Two sides of the same coin but the groundwater problem seems easier to solve. Not because it is technically easier but because the incentives for (rich countries) seem to be a lot stronger. Preventing the own area from flooding is way less abstract than indirectly caused deforestation somewhere in the world, with effects that will be felt only years or decades into the future.
Without wanting to highjack this submission (the Amazon submission didn't gain traction, unfortunately) but any ideas how this problem could be solved and how one could contribute to a solution?
Re: Rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities
#6It’s basically a foregone conclusion that the water levels will rise and envelop a large number of properties that exist due to the value of coastal real estate.
Humans, because we are mostly water, love being close to water and seeing water.
The question in my mind is whether we will get a waterworld type situation, or if everything will be left to be destroyed and we will re settle the new coasts.
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#7Who is 'thinknewsmedia' who wrote this 'could' article? The link to Vkontakte at base suggests the site is Russian?
They have a source link at the bottom. It's MIT's Technology Review. Here's the full-text archive: https://archive.md/cpEXX
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#8Is the ground water near a coast line brackish?
Depends on many factors but brackish groudwater does exist near coastlines either naturally or via intrusion from human over pumping. Example of the latter from LA: https://www.wrd.org/content/regional-brackish-water-reclamat...
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#9Is the ground water near a coast line brackish?
Yes, and it's an increasing problem for coastal communities.
https://www.miamidade.gov/global/water/conservation/saltwate...