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Investment in coastal flood prevention technology for major city centers that can legitimately be helped. Places below sea level today - https://en.wikipedia.o

Investment in coastal flood prevention technology for major city centers that can legitimately be helped. Places below sea level today - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_on_land_with_elevations_below_sea_level https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_on_land_with_el... - need to be abandoned.

pmyjavec 10y ago
Won't a lot of this coastal flood protection infrastructure just add emissions to the atmosphere, thus grossly exacerbating the problem? Seems like way to little, way to late. Trying to just "build a wall" around cities just doesn't sound like it's going to work, I even saw designs where buildings in Manhattan will have to be built on stilts, but how much environmental environmental damage will all this new construction do? Probably best off to just start relocating these cities and find new homes for the inhabitants. This combined with other issues like fracking, leaking methane into the atmosphere aren't exactly filling me with confidence.
- stale2002 10y ago
  You are overestimating the effects of climate change. Sea levels will rise by a meter over the next hundred years. That's really not very much in the scheme of things.
  - pmyjavec 10y ago
    Have a read of these: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/science/flooding-of-coast-caused-by-global-warming-has-already-begun.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/science/flooding-of-coast-... http://uk.businessinsider.com/cities-exposed-to-rising-sea-levels-2014-4?r=US&IR=T http://uk.businessinsider.com/cities-exposed-to-rising-sea-l... I'm going to say you're underestimating the affects of climate change if you think a one meter rise in sea level globally isn't a big deal. Not to mention a selfish point of view, considering some peoples homes are already being inundated and the catastrophic effects it will have on coral reef systems.
alanpca 10y ago
Is water really going to make it into death valley, or other mountain-protected areas? It seems like the only real threat in the USA is New Orleans.

pmyjavec 10y ago

Won't a lot of this coastal flood protection infrastructure just add emissions to the atmosphere, thus grossly exacerbating the problem? Seems like way to little, way to late. Trying to just "build a wall" around cities just doesn't sound like it's going to work, I even saw designs where buildings in Manhattan will have to be built on stilts, but how much environmental environmental damage will all this new construction do? Probably best off to just start relocating these cities and find new homes for the inhabitants. This combined with other issues like fracking, leaking methane into the atmosphere aren't exactly filling me with confidence.

stale2002 10y ago
You are overestimating the effects of climate change. Sea levels will rise by a meter over the next hundred years. That's really not very much in the scheme of things.
- pmyjavec 10y ago
  Have a read of these: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/science/flooding-of-coast-caused-by-global-warming-has-already-begun.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/science/flooding-of-coast-... http://uk.businessinsider.com/cities-exposed-to-rising-sea-levels-2014-4?r=US&IR=T http://uk.businessinsider.com/cities-exposed-to-rising-sea-l... I'm going to say you're underestimating the affects of climate change if you think a one meter rise in sea level globally isn't a big deal. Not to mention a selfish point of view, considering some peoples homes are already being inundated and the catastrophic effects it will have on coral reef systems.

alanpca 10y ago

Is water really going to make it into death valley, or other mountain-protected areas? It seems like the only real threat in the USA is New Orleans.