Climate breakdown to trigger debate over which cities to protect from rising sea levels

[bronxiteforever]

You realise we’re just not going to protect a lot of these places’
The Independent
Christopher Flavelle
June 20,2019

As disaster costs keep rising across the United States, a troubling new debate has become urgent: if there’s not enough money to protect every coastal community from the effects of human-caused global warming, how should we decide which ones to save first?

After three years of brutal flooding and hurricanes, there is growing consensus among policymakers and scientists that coastal areas will require significant spending to ride out future storms and rising sea levels — not in decades but now and in the very near future.

By 2040, simply providing basic storm-surge protection in the form of sea walls for all coastal cities with more than 25,000 residents will require at least $42bn (£33.1bn), according to new estimates from the Centre for Climate Integrity, an environmental advocacy group.“Once you get into it, you realise we’re just not going to protect a lot of these places,” said Richard Wiles, the centre’s executive director. “This is the next wave of climate denial — denying the costs that we’re all facing.”

More here
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-us-storms-sea-level-global-warming-hurricane-a8967576.html

[Moostache]

1. Here is the pattern...

1) Climate Change is a hoax...there is no consensus.
2) Climate Change is a hoax...there are too many factors to KNOW it is man-made.
3) Climate Change is a hoax...the Chinese made it up to mess up our economy.
4) Climate Change is a hoax...those events are part of a solar incident radiation flux.
5) Climate Change is real, but its not caused by man.
6) Climate Change is real, but there is nothing we can do about it now.
7) Climate Change is real, but we don't have the money to save everyone.
8) Climate Change is real, but you poor people were too lazy to earn a way out, now just DIE already...

WE have quickly moved to step 7...soon enough step 8 will be reality around the poor populations of the globe (if its not already happening to them)...

[CrispyQ]

2. We will find out just how United these States are when the immigrants are our own citizens

escaping environmental risky areas.

[bronxiteforever]

3. +1 And GOP run coastal states will do nothing.

[friendly_iconoclast]

4. I can easily imagine my own state of Massachusetts splitting up over this

The central and western counties (Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester, and Middlesex) already
think they're getting screwed over financially by the richer eastern/coastal ones.

They'll not want to fork over more in an attempt to 'harden' the coastal cities:

Boston Built a New Waterfront Just in Time for the Apocalypse

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-18/boston-built-a-new-waterfront-just-in-time-for-the-apocalypse

Designing a neighborhood from scratch: The stakes are high at Suffolk Downs

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2019/06/17/designing-neighborhood-from-scratch-the-stakes-are-high-suffolk-downs/KcWz5yacTUChK4cq9sYnJM/story.html

TL;DR version: The Suffolk Downs site is, at best, 20-25 feet above high tide as it is. A developer wants to plant
a ca. $1.5 billion edge city on the site.