Climate-driven sea rise will swamp oil ports – hahahahahahahhahahahah
Bhahahahahahahaha, oh the fucking irony…
‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows
Ports including in Saudi Arabia and the US projected to be seriously damaged by a metre of sea level rise
…for the Political Right, they need to pretend global warming is a socialist hoax and that they never ending growth business model can continue exploiting natural resources without any change.
We see the push against people powered climate change resistance by International Right Wing Think Tank The Atlas Network which is funded by big oil, big polluters and insane libertarian Billionaires.
The danger for the political right is that we are now in the age of consequences. There is no way we can revers the damage created by our pollution and the warming has breached tipping points we can’t pull back from. This will result in more and more extreme weather events which we can’t rebuild from in time for the next storm.
There’s a point when even the reddest of necks must admit the climate is changing, but thanks to social media hate algorithms, intense loneliness and a poorly educated population, they will see climate changing, not because of big oil, but because the anti-Trump deep state has created a weather machine to hurt Republicans.
It’s difficult to gloat while we are all burning, but I’m going to try anyway.
The truth is we are fucked on the climate and the only path way forward will be radical adaptation, but no one wants to accept that reality yet.
Give it another 5 years.
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cant wait for that day of reality kicking in ,just hope its sooner than later .
Yet another prediction that will most likely be forgotten in the ‘sea of time’. The proof is in the pudding. When the Richie riches not only stop buying seaside properties but start selling off or even abandoning these properties, then we know we’ve got a problem. At the same time, when business starts spending big money or starts moving their interests away from the shore, then again, this is a good indicator that we indeed, do have a problem. Money tends to be ahead of the pack on most issues, thanks to its ability to influence the political class, therefore, what they do, or do not do, is a good indicator of where the world is really heading.
What utter nonsense.
In other words, I am right. Cheers Den.
Did someone forgot to say that to the people in LA with the current fires? The wealth of the property owner makes no difference when a wildfire hits.
Money is ahead of the pack. Why do you think the ultra rich (not mere millionaires) are building escape holes well away from the coasts?
Better yet, why is the insurance industry slowly ramping up flood protection costs on coastal properties? Hmmmmmm …
It has kicked in for thousands already–harder to insure coastal properties, Councils looking at no build zones (though Natz fast track will probably squash that), damage still not fully repaired from Cyclone Gabrielle in some areas. As the Editor says, the next event will increasingly be along before the last is dealt with!
Ordinary people have experienced what happens when ATMs, phone coverage, roading and public infrastructure services go down for extended periods. Keep some cash stashed people and a “go bag” is all I can say.
Urgent change is needed in so many respects but the parasite class will not allow rain water collection tanks, large scale solar installs, putting up a “full” sign at Auckland or moving to local food supply chains–because it affects their profits.
Society is not too far away from major breakdown with climate change, further pandemics, sea level rise and infrastructure failure–bags not me to live in an apartment with blocked toilets, no water, power or lift.
I’m lucky in the Far North with rain water tanks, solar power and vegetables, but time for urban dwellers to wake up and become eco socialists too.
Am interested in the reaction of the locals on how they will manage the troops of city dwellers as the now flooded and newly un-electrified migrate to the regions in search of food and water.
Discussed this with a Coromandel local preaching self sufficiency and “glad I don’t live in the cities”attitude with smugness. She just could not get her head around the thousand upon thousands migrating to the regions as society collapses in the cities.
Are we going to have a huge conflict? How do you think this conflict will play out and what type of society structure will result when the dust settles.
Good points Gerrit I too note how the educated middle class respond to important social and liveable matters. They are still in a state of semi-numbness as they try to crank their brains up. The Greens eg when they got to a position of political value – they wanted to get their personal irritations and insults seen to before the actual tasks that serious and responsible people in the Greens had already seen. But the young ones, still ignoring the older, were living in their media-induced dream world that adequate incomes allow to float and bloat..
Think global, act local is an old saying.
Urban dwellers, which I was one of for 27 years in Orcland, just need to get politically active and organised. Vote, participate and push for public transport, rain water collection, solar installs etc. It is not about being smug it is about taking responsibility.
Don’t worry they won’t get past Takanini or Maretai – and those that do can be picked off along the Firth of Thames – lol
Zero Day Code by John Birmingham is a classic armageddon scenario.
What does “radical adaptation” mean?
The prediction is 1metre sea level rise by yr 2100. Currently sea level is rising 3.5mm per year. So if the rate increases to 13mm a year then over 75 years the rise hits the extra 1metre.
The 100 corporations, you can pick the usual suspects big oil coal but which corporations round out the list of 100. Where is that list?
And what will be done? Can’t see that worldwide ETS will work – too much corruption, bogus carbon credits, creative accounting, unenforced penalties etc.
I saw a post the other day.
If the world went solar / renewable energy for transport etc.
50% of the ships currently on the high seas would be scrapped as they carry nothing but coal and oil.
Just imagine the reduction in emissions that involves.
Dont worry – it’ll stay cool until Antarctica melts