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The article says, "sea levels are projected to vary minimally in the next few decades across the different greenhouse gas emission scenarios, whereas end-of-cen
by cratermoon 3y ago
The article says, "sea levels are projected to vary minimally in the next few decades across the different greenhouse gas emission scenarios, whereas end-of-century projections indicate a more substantial divergence in increase by emissions". If someone was ready to retire and live a couple more decades on the coast, would they be able to find cheap housing as people move away from the encroaching oceans? That is, buy houses young people won't want to invest in knowing that they will be underwater in their lifetimes.
- apothegm 3y agoI don’t read that quote as saying models suggest sea levels won’t start rising until the end of the century. What it seems to be saying is that the impact of different levels of emissions in the near future doesn’t show up as differing amounts of sea level rise in the models until the end of the century. But sea level rise caused by past emissions is already baked into the models.