▲ 29 ▼ Outer Banks Homes Collapsing Is Just a Taste of What’s to Come (www.bloomberg.com) submitted 8 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net [M] to c/climate@slrpnk.net 4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca -2 points 8 months ago (2 children) That's just erosion. It's what happens when you build on coasts. Climate change is something else entirely. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child) Warmer temperatures got ice melting. This raised sea level a bit, and increased the rate of erosion permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago* Yes, but scale and diversity of phenomena are going to be spectacular. Building and losing shitty homes on coasts doesn't really do the topic justice. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago Storms increase in intensity and frequency with climate change, increasing rates of erosion. Most homes built to survive any weather except the worst storm of the past 10,000 years will not survive this century. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child) Warmer temperatures got ice melting. This raised sea level a bit, and increased the rate of erosion permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago* Yes, but scale and diversity of phenomena are going to be spectacular. Building and losing shitty homes on coasts doesn't really do the topic justice. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago* Yes, but scale and diversity of phenomena are going to be spectacular. Building and losing shitty homes on coasts doesn't really do the topic justice. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago Storms increase in intensity and frequency with climate change, increasing rates of erosion. Most homes built to survive any weather except the worst storm of the past 10,000 years will not survive this century. permalink fedilink source parent
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