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Re:World won't cool without geoengineering, warns report by mcv on Friday September 27, 2013 @08:41AM (#6456644)
At this rate, 50cm is not going to be enough. And you don't slap it just on top, you have to widen the entire dike to make it stronger.

No, we won't be the first place to go; that'll be the Maldives. And we probably can afford the extreme expenditure necessary to increase those dikes. But wouldn't it have been better to prevent that extreme expenditure in the first place?

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Re:World won't cool without geoengineering, warns report by mseebach on Friday September 27, 2013 @09:14AM (#6456804)
No, sorry, 50cm per 100 years is too little. It should be 70cm.

The "extreme expenditure" to build dikes is a lot less than the expenditure to not just stop, but revert global warming. Nobody knows if it's even possible, so we might end up wasting all that money and then still having to build dikes.

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