• Rimu@piefed.social
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    4 months ago

    I fondly remember the days when rising sea levels, “sometime in 2100 or whenever” was the main climate-related thing. That was nice. Back then, the idea of tipping points was the realm of wild-eyed doomers that no one took seriously. Heat domes? Wildfires? Ocean death? Mass migration? Just science fiction.

    Ahh, good times.

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    4 months ago

    And 20 percent of islands grew, a few of them because humans had created new land.

    Well - pfft - I think you could discount those parts!