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recent bookmarks from jmIPCC Report: Oceans Face 'Unprecedented Conditions'2019-09-26T11:14:41+00:00
https://earther.gizmodo.com/unprecedented-conditions-will-rule-the-oceans-by-midcen-1838422187
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The dangerous changes to the ocean don’t even begin to address the impacts of rising seas. Under all climate change scenarios, coastal areas will see what the report euphemistically calls “extreme sea level events”—that would be floods to you and me—that were once once-in-a-century will become annual occurrences by century’s end. But devastating effects will impact unnumbered people far sooner.
“Many low-lying megacities and small islands (including SIDS) are projected to experience historical centennial events at least annually by 2050,” the report authors wrote.
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'The world has shown little appetite to take a collaborative approach to these types of adaptation projects let alone drawing down emissions to-date, but the tide will have to turn if humanity is to have any chance of staying above water.']]>climate-change climate oceans sea-level disasters future 2050https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:35445d480af4/