silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 6 days agoOuter Banks Homes Collapsing Is Just a Taste of What’s to Comewww.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down11
arrow-up127arrow-down1external-linkOuter Banks Homes Collapsing Is Just a Taste of What’s to Comewww.bloomberg.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squareStinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·6 days agoThat’s just erosion. It’s what happens when you build on coasts. Climate change is something else entirely.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 days agoWarmer temperatures got ice melting. This raised sea level a bit, and increased the rate of erosion
minus-squareStinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 days agoYes, 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.
minus-squareTiresia@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 days agoStorms 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.
That’s just erosion. It’s what happens when you build on coasts. Climate change is something else entirely.
Warmer temperatures got ice melting. This raised sea level a bit, and increased the rate of erosion
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.
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.