You've got the physics backwards. Impacts aren't the mean slowly drowning someone, they're threshold-driven. A few inches of higher baseline means the same ordinary high tide now tops the seawall. That's why US "sunny-day" flood DAYS have multiplied while the mean rose inches: 34 locations broke their flood-day records in 2023, Charleston is up 400%+ since 2000, Boston's projected for 12-19 days this year. "Who's impacted?" Start with the ~30 households of Isle de Jean Charles, LA…the first federally funded US climate refugees, $48M to relocate them, 98% of their island gone since 1955.
I'm afraid that this is why the US administration wants to shut down ocean observations: they don't want the people to know what is happening in our oceans, as it does not fit their ideology and the interests of their fossil fuel industry funders.
https://t.co/G1E5zXdyid
BREAKING: Trump just handed coal $700M of your tax dollars - at an event he called "Beautiful, Clean Coal." It's the dirtiest power there is, and one of the priciest up to $173/MWh vs ~$37 for wind and solar. He's also spending $2B to kill cheaper wind. A con. #ClimateChange #Coal #CleanEnergy
"Nobody noticed the last 7 inches."
Tell that to Hurricane Sandy. ~4 inches of human-caused sea level rise added $8.1 BILLION in damage, flooded 36,000 extra homes, and put 71,000 more people in the water (Strauss et al., Nature 2021). That's the rise you say went unnoticed.
And your 3mm/yr isn't a constant, it's accelerating. NOAA projects 10–12" by 2050, as much in 30 years as the previous 100, five years before your "7 inch" date. Damage scales faster than depth, so the next 7 inches lands on an already-breached threshold and hits harder.
Ryan Fournier, 30 yr old co-founder of ‘Students for Trump’ was arrested for domestic violence. After being drunk & passed out, he punched his girlfriend 2-3 times with a closed fist when awakened and made threats including “I will kill everyone here.” https://t.co/eBUH1dRSn3
The Trump admin is dismantling a $370M ocean-monitoring network run out of Woods Hole — ~900 sensors tracking marine heatwaves, currents & coastal flooding. Congress restored the funding twice; they're scrapping it anyway. We're going blind on a changing ocean. #ClimateChange #Oceans #NOAA
Trump's National Guard surge violently detains U.S. citizen—for holding a sign.
She was standing on her own front porch.
3 soldiers block her from entering her home—tackle her to ground.
"Help! Help! You're breaking my arm!"
she cries.
"You came onto my property—you have no authority to detain me!"
Trump Administration announced a "surge" in the number of National Guard and ICE agents in DC to at least 5,000 last month.
On at least three additional occasions in the last two weeks, National Guard soldiers have handcuffed and detained people in DC.
This footage was submitted to FilmThePoliceDC on June 2.
Incident occurred in the Truxton Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
🔥 @AOC to @MacFarlaneNews: “People think these things are almost like a joke, but this is THEFT of OUR money. Your money is being stolen to pay for Trump’s vanity projects.”
@billybinion Elon regularly retweets Nazis on his website, promotes fascist conspiracy theories and propaganda, and makes comments that actually align with the ideology. The fact that you're describing this as an "autistic wave" is absurd. You don't actually believe that's what it is.
Applebaum: Trump is using a specific language from the 1930s: “enemies within,” “enemies of the people,” migrants and political opponents as “vermin,” migrants “poisoning the blood” of Americans.
That language comes from Hitler, Stalin and the Stasi. 1/