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Originally Posted by Johnhw2
What am I missing, I see no sign of the movers and shakers giving up their east and west coast water front mansions despite this news that I am sure the vast majority take as fact. Why are they not acting on this dire news? There actions or lack there of speaks volumes saying what I am not sure?
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Why would the "movers and shakers" yet understand the scientific research provided in posts 1 and 7?
They won't read about it in the Wall St. Journal or Barron's (both owned by Fox News), nor hear reports about it on CNBC. I regularly rely on all three of these news sources, and note not only the total paucity of climate change reporting, but actual denier dismissal of man-made climate change by some anchors, reporters, editors, and columnists.
Local coastal news media likely aren't going to warn their residents of the likelihood of accelerating sea level rise, thereby stifling the local economies and perhaps crushing local real estate values.
Note that the article linked in post one about the recent National Climate Assessment report was published by a newspaper in Charlotte, safely over 750 feet above sea level.
Admittedly, some "movers and shakers" read the New York Times and the Washington Post, both newspapers that report on climate change developments.
Yet both of these "national" newspapers are timid compared to the reporting in some national magazines, such as "The New Yorker," which recently published this remarkable article by a long-time climate change journalist.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...ing-the-planet
"The Atlantic" also covers man-made climate change with brutal honesty.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/...nction/577537/
Meanwhile, federally and in many states, including North Carolina, deniers have suppressed climate change knowledge and even policy solutions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/u...th=login-email
Even now denier politicians caution against climate change "alarmists," as if scientists weighing the empirical data were prone to incendiary rhetoric. Actually, the opposite has been true, as admitted in the recent U.N. climate change panel. Scientists never anticipated ocean acidification, the "equally evil twin" of fossil fuel consumption, and only began extensive studies after 2000.
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/inve...-acidification
The U.N. panel noted that even in its prior report, it didn't anticipate the rapid dying of the world's coral species.
The Trump administration said the recent National Climate Assessment was based on "worst-case" scenarios and didn't reflect the "facts." Deniers, such as in the Trump administration, insist that climate assessments should be based on historical trends, ignoring the scientific research presented in posts 1 and 7 which so concerns actual climate scientists. The Trump administration and other deniers seem shockingly oblivious to the reality that temperatures in the cryosphere now are more regularly exceeding the freezing point with disastrous implications for the planet. Sadly, even negative feedback loops are beyond their comprehension.
https://www.newsweek.com/sarah-hucka...adical-1233921
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...e-study-992872
Many wealthy coastal residents may actually believe the Trump administration's anti-science rhetoric, in addition to actually being uninformed about the empirical data and scientific research.
Few likely have read about the projections of Harold Wanless, chair of geological sciences department at the Univ. of Miami. Wanless attempts to incorporate more rapid levels of ice melt into his sea rise projections. Interestingly, his research is better reported in the U.K., an island nation, than in the U.S. Wanless' projections truly are extreme, and much more dire than the "official" projections, let alone the historical rate of increase preferred by the Trump administration and deniers in general. Wanless projects 3 feet of sea level rise by 2050, and 10 to 33 feet by 2100. See post 1.
When coastal property owners actually begin to experience accelerating sea level rise, if the scientists are correct, an inevitable exodus from coastal areas will begin, led by the more wealthy able to afford to cut their losses, if that is an issue.
Increasing FEMA flood insurance rates for coastal properties also may change the coastal property ownership equation.
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/...214173939.html
Political leadership in the U.S., with the Republican Party dominated by deniers, and the Democratic Party populated by climate change wimps, also doesn't do much to inform Americans as to the dire consequences of man-made climate change already well underway.
Also consider that West Coast real estate due to higher elevations isn't as vulnerable as the lower East Coast, even if all global ice were to melt. Other factors, such as a slowing Gulf Stream, also is accelerating sea level rise faster on the East Coast than on the West Coast.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/m...horeline-maps/
https://e360.yale.edu/features/flood....s.-east-coast
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