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Certain West Virginian politicians prefer their state underwater.
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Wow, that is a super misleading headline. The amount of water that could be loosed would cover an area the size of the state of West Virginia in a foot of water. Doesn’t mean West Virginia would be underwater.
Really had me scratching my head until I clicked through, wondering how all that water would get through Maryland and Virginia and fill up the Blue Ridge and Appalachian mountain range.
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Same. I am from WV. To sink WV, the whole of the east coast would have to be gone. Using WV as a unit of measure for area is misleading at best.
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They do call it the Mountain State of West Virginia.
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Maybe if one factors in non-coastal flooding?
And adopts a specific timeline?
A few years ago, Vermont had terrible flooding. Catastrophic. Farms washed away, etc. Vermont is not coastal, but I’d argue that climate change was a player there and then.
And here and now.
FWIW, here’s a set of long-range coastal flooding maps, you can set params for just about anywhere:
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Obligatory:
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I learned about climate change (as a real concern) in school in the early 1970s, 20 years before this.
Kind of like Dobbs, we can never assume our sociopolitical trajectory is a straight line that will never double back on itself.
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Same here, but it was a book of essays by Isaac Asimov.
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That was the era when solar energy was deliberately crushed (or significantly delayed) in the US, and I often wonder how much better off we’d be now if that had been prevented:
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I think they only want to drown one person in West Virginia.
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It was hot AF this weekend. That is all.
Damn.
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