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What's wrong with migration? People do that anyway when they move out of their parent's house and into their own, often in another city. You describe storms bec
by averagewall 10y ago
What's wrong with migration? People do that anyway when they move out of their parent's house and into their own, often in another city. You describe storms becoming more frequent, which is something insurance companies will see a mile away and increase premiums or refuse to provide cover for. That will reduce the value of property in those areas and property buyers will go further inland instead. It sounds like some poor property investor might be left holding the bag if he doesn't sell his coastal city building in time. Instead of feeling sad for his loss, perhaps trust that he knows what he's doing and will sell it in time so the migration happens gradually and for incremental economic reasons rather than as a sudden emergency.
Your energy argument doesn't add up. Increasing the thermal energy of everything in a system doesn't make it able to do more work (violent storms). Storms are driven by heat flowing from hot to cold. Not from hot to also-hot. If you show that temperature differences between parts of the ocean/atmosphere are going to become more extreme, then more severe storms would make sense. That could be caused by cold things getting colder or hot things getting hotter.
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- omginternets 10y ago>What's wrong with migration? People do that anyway when they move out of their parent's house and into their own, often in another city This is hardly the kind of migration we're talking about. Come on... a bit of intellectual honesty goes a long way.
- tim333 10y agoThere may be a bit of short distance migration if the sea rises. It's projected to rise a meter or two this century so people could build inland a bit, planning permission willing.
- tripzilch 10y agoA 2m rise is going to cause way more than "maybe a bit of short distance migration". It's going going to be a lot worse, by an order of magnitude, than the current war refugee migrant crises currently in Europe, and will be happening globally at that.