Nov 13, 2023 06:23 PM
(This post was last modified: Nov 14, 2023 04:29 PM by C C.)
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth...ange-first
INTRO: About a million people live in coral atolls like those in the Maldives, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and the Marshall Islands. These islands are just a few feet in elevation, making them some of the places most at-risk from the rising seas that will result from climate change. Five uninhabited islands in the Solomon Islands have already vanished beneath the waves in the past century.
The Maldives, Kiribati, Tuvalu, and the Marshall Islands have the highest percentage of their land area at risk because they are all atolls; other countries also have low lying islands, but have more higher ground available to flee to.
So which low-lying islands will be underwater — and uninhabitable — the soonest due to climate change? As it turns out, that question is impossible to answer. Four islands illustrate why... (MORE - details)
COVERED: Mainadhoo, Huvadhoo Atoll, Maldives ..... Roi-Namur Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of Marshall Islands ..... Mundoo, Laamu Atoll, The Maldives ..... Fongafale, Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu
Jaws of the Snake
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/jaws-of-the-snake
EXCERPTS: . . . climate policy is much more complex than this, but for better or worse, public and political discourse has been reduced to a debate centered on scientific predictions of our collective long-term futures.
[...] Research shows that these dynamics persist — legacy media and social media emphasize the IPCC Working Group 1 and 2 reports, which provide projections of climate futures and their impacts, and de-emphasize Working Group 3 which has expertise in energy systems and technologies of mitigation. Anyone paying attention to climate policy and politics will be familiar with these dynamics.
[...] As our view of the long-term climate future becomes less catastrophic, due initially to moving beyond misleading, implausible scenarios and then continuing into the future as decarbonization accelerates, the jaws of the snake will close even tighter. A narrowing of plausible futures is an inevitable consequence of climate policy progress...
[...] The future is not what it used to be. Science and policy need to keep up, regardless whose expertise wins and loses... (MORE - missing details)
INTRO: About a million people live in coral atolls like those in the Maldives, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and the Marshall Islands. These islands are just a few feet in elevation, making them some of the places most at-risk from the rising seas that will result from climate change. Five uninhabited islands in the Solomon Islands have already vanished beneath the waves in the past century.
The Maldives, Kiribati, Tuvalu, and the Marshall Islands have the highest percentage of their land area at risk because they are all atolls; other countries also have low lying islands, but have more higher ground available to flee to.
So which low-lying islands will be underwater — and uninhabitable — the soonest due to climate change? As it turns out, that question is impossible to answer. Four islands illustrate why... (MORE - details)
COVERED: Mainadhoo, Huvadhoo Atoll, Maldives ..... Roi-Namur Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of Marshall Islands ..... Mundoo, Laamu Atoll, The Maldives ..... Fongafale, Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu
Jaws of the Snake
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/jaws-of-the-snake
EXCERPTS: . . . climate policy is much more complex than this, but for better or worse, public and political discourse has been reduced to a debate centered on scientific predictions of our collective long-term futures.
[...] Research shows that these dynamics persist — legacy media and social media emphasize the IPCC Working Group 1 and 2 reports, which provide projections of climate futures and their impacts, and de-emphasize Working Group 3 which has expertise in energy systems and technologies of mitigation. Anyone paying attention to climate policy and politics will be familiar with these dynamics.
[...] As our view of the long-term climate future becomes less catastrophic, due initially to moving beyond misleading, implausible scenarios and then continuing into the future as decarbonization accelerates, the jaws of the snake will close even tighter. A narrowing of plausible futures is an inevitable consequence of climate policy progress...
[...] The future is not what it used to be. Science and policy need to keep up, regardless whose expertise wins and loses... (MORE - missing details)
