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And of course entire countries are being wiped out due to global (20% US, 11% China, 7% Russia) CO2 emissions
by iso1631 4y ago
And of course entire countries are being wiped out due to global (20% US, 11% China, 7% Russia) CO2 emissions
- concordDance 4y agoEntire countries? IPCC projections don't indicate any island nations going underwater in the next two centuries.
- yellowapple 4y agoIf Bloomberg is to be believed (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-07/climate-change-linked-to-5-million-deaths-a-year-new-study-shows?leadSource=uverify%20wall https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-07/climate-c...), climate change is killing an Ireland's worth of people every year.
- concordDance 4y agoWhat's that have to do with sea level rise?
- yellowapple 4y agoThe only one who mentioned sea level rise was you.
- concordDance 4y agoI assumed "wiped out" meant that the country would actually be depopulated. The levels of warming anticipated cannot do that.
- iso1631 4y agoSure, only 80% of say the maldives by the time my kids are my age. I wonder what Americans would do if other countries worked together to put every single state apart from Alaska and half of Texas underwater in the next generation. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/80-of-maldives-could-be-uninhabitable-by-2050/2412696 https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/80-of-maldives-could-b...
- concordDance 4y ago2050 is a 10cm rise from today. I expect most of the Maldives is already "uninhabitable" (and always was) by whatever standard is being used there. You could literally dredge up land 100x faster than sea levels rise for the Maldives. There are many nasty consequences of global climate change, sea level rise is an irrelevant distraction from things like India heating up and ocean acidification.