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@latimeralder @YellandSimon I'm sure you're more than capable of finding the data for yourself.

You can't hide behind "SHOW ME THE DATA" forever.
https://t.co/JNlGQ2jQX7

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@latimeralder @YellandSimon Yes, the specific Delta Fund line item is €1.9B. Broader water defense (maintenance, operations, related infrastructure) pushes higher, and officials have said overall investment is around 1% with calls to double it.

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@latimeralder @YellandSimon So after multiple rounds of actual data, examples, costs, tide gauges, salinity records, Delta Programme budgets, NASA/NOAA satellite SLR trends, and specific places you circle back to "SHOW US THE DATA"? 😂

What data do you have in mind?

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@latimeralder @YellandSimon If it's such a bargain against a non-threat, why the constant program reviews, calls to double funding & engineering megaprojects?

The "I follow the Data" guy reduces real incurred costs to a Gallic shrug percentage while the country treats it as a top-tier national priority.

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@latimeralder @YellandSimon It's perpetual cost and rising: This isn't a one-time insurance policy. It's an ongoing arms race against accelerating sea level rise 3.6 to 4 mm/year observed and land subsidence, both natural & human.

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@latimeralder @YellandSimon Florida Everglades/Biscayne Aquifer: Saltwater wedge advancing; water utilities and USGS reports detail contamination risks to drinking water.

"Super", eh, Latimer?

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@latimeralder @YellandSimon Delaware/Maryland coastal bays: Documented farmland salinisation & ghost forests (trees dying from saltwater). USGS and state monitoring stations track the "salt front" moving inland.

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@latimeralder @YellandSimon https://t.co/4iUUxAhSBi

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@latimeralder @YellandSimon With poorer countries facing higher relative burdens. World Bank and IPCC reports quantify this for vulnerable deltas.

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@latimeralder @YellandSimon Aquifers in places like Hampton Roads, VA, or parts of the Netherlands require active management (pumping, barriers). Not "billions displaced tomorrow". Real costs: Adaptation (seawalls, dikes, drainage, desalination, elevated infrastructure) already runs into billions annually.

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@latimeralder @YellandSimon Billions in infrastructure exposure is not hype; U.S. NOAA & USACE reports have quantified TRILLIONS in potential assets at risk from higher tides + storm surges.

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@latimeralder @YellandSimon Low-lying coastal areas, ports & bases face real risks well before "catastrophe" levels. Nuisance flooding is already up sharply in places like Miami, Norfolk, etc.

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@latimeralder @YellandSimon Saltwater intrusion destroying farmland and aquifers.
Billions in adaptation costs that poorer countries can't afford.

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@latimeralder @YellandSimon Real-world problems aren't just the total height in 2100.
They're:
Higher baseline for storm surges (turning "100-year floods" into "10-year floods").

Coastal erosion and infrastructure damage today.