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Re:Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction by chrisco255 on Monday March 16, 2020 @09:45PM (#22600619)
Sea level is rising at an unalarming 2-3mm per year. About a foot a century. Believe me, we can adapt to that. Even if you could control the sea level, by the way, due to tectonics, a lot of land is moving at millimeters per year as well. Some landmasses move up, some move down. Change is constant on this planet. Adaptation is the only way.
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Re:Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction by cultus on Monday March 16, 2020 @10:28PM (#22600913)
Sea level rise will accelerate. Either you are being deliberately obtuse, or you are completely uninformed.
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Re:Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction by degski on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:30AM (#22601684)
Actually no, not everywhere, in places sea-levels are about to drop: https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/sea-level-drop-sc...
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Re:Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction by cultus on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @11:01AM (#22605477)
It actually may drop around Greenland and Antarctica, as well. The reduced mass of ice causes the water level to drop despite the overall sea level rise. This of course means higher rises elsewhere. Surprisingly, this didn't occur to anyone until just a few years ago.
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Re:Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction by matchbok on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:17AM (#22601602)
That's... not how it works.
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