“We now have direct evidence that not only was the ice gone, but that plants and insects were living there,”…Near‑complete melting of Greenland’s ice over the next centuries to a few millennia would lead to some 23 feet of sea‑level rise.
Clickbait title. I don’t plan to be living over the next few centuries or millennia. There are plenty of reasons to not buy a beach house but this ain’t one of them.
I think that’s kind of a tongue in cheek joke.
Regular people don’t respect the actual issue at hand(like yourself a little) trying to portray it as relevant or something they can understand is important for scientists to do.
Unfortunately science and the truth are worthless if morons don’t understand them.
Only if we let them stay in power…
OTOH, you’ve yet to encounter any conclusive evidence that you’re mortal.
Honestly, I’m 195cm so in all likelihood I’m mortal than most people on average
Well, tall people have it harder with pumping blood, so you might be mortaller.
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I don’t plan to be living over the next few centuries or millennia.
It’s hard to read this without hearing a “I got mine, so f everyone after me” in it. When you talk about this with your friends, maybe consider rephrasing it?
I think if the title said something like “cities of the world could flood in the next century” rather than “don’t buy a beach house”, you would have a point. But that’s not the case here.
Thank you for phrasing that well
I gave a friend who said something like this and I didn’t find the words to respond. Anyway, he moved to Florida near the shore so asked if he was worried about insurance, flooding, or even being able to sell the house if sea levels rise too much. He replied that he looked at the flood and storm projections for his expected remaining life and decided he was ok. Since he has no descendants, he doesn’t care if the house loses value or it becomes uninsurable
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US/EU could have done a lot for long time, but they don’t care about the root problem. There is no need to pull out your selected countries as somehow needing more oversight than the West. We are the cause of this problem. The question is more, how do we ensure competition stays away from existential processes and ecological systems that we all need ?
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This is such a good point about the global power dynamics. The rate of melt is actually accelrating faster than most models predicted even 10 years ago. Countries with less resources might resort to desperate geoengineering measures becuase they literally can’t wait for the rest of us to get our act together.
One -possible- different past. Of course, we may be wrong about what caused it to be much warmer -in Greenland- -at that time- .
One simpler example: the Earth’s North polar axis may once have farther from Greenland. Plate tectonics has made this a much different planet than it was 200Million or 400M or 600M years ago, and there was possibly a time when Greenland was much farther from the pole … and had no ice.
Or (if Charles Hapgood was right), much of the Earth’s crust may have shifted it’s position (think an orange-skin no longer firmly attached to the orange) over, say, 100,000 years or so.
