One day my descendants will go diving there.
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You’re thinking too small. Think kaiju walls.
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yeah. you definitely don’t want a kraken sea walls. all the water would pour right in
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The sad part is, even putting willfully ignorant conservatives and neoliberal greedpigs aside, we’ve known this for a long time and spent decades doing very little to address it.
The 1977 White House climate memo that should have changed the world
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It was a shorter city back then. This article starts with 1885, when the then tallest building was 138 ft. Now, that’s a short building in a city like Chicago. Travel Through History with this Interactive Timeline of Chicago's Tallest Buildings | ArchDaily
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I can name all those buildings from their silhouettes and tell you exactly where they are.
I may have gone on too many architectural tours in my time!
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Ugh, one of these likes was from towersofbeng? In there a feature where I can, like, reject the like?
Maybe this is what the block feature is for tbh.
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Seems to be missing the skyscraper on the river, on the former site of the Sun Times, the name of which shall not be mentioned.
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It is quite heartening to notice how well photographers and videographers manage to keep that name out of official representations of the city. Even videos of turning the river green on St. Patrick’s Day, for example, which one would think would be impossible to do without at least some shots of the name, somehow manage to keep to the more anonymous views of the building.
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Honestly, your positivity is an inspiration and I can’t thank you enough for sharing your insights here at length.
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Not content trying to make life miserable for the non-wealthy in the present, the conservative majority on the SCOTUS will no doubt do its part to ensure misery for future generations as well.
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Welcome to BoingBoing!
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The ocean is an average of 4 km deep, so even if the rising temperatures magically didn’t melt any ice, just 0.1% thermal expansion would still give you a 4 m rise.
We’ve thought critically and asked the questions. The answers are very much in line with what scientists who study climate change say. Who would have guessed the Heritage foundation was being less than honest, right?
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You’re not a real doctor.
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While I’m enthusiastic about amphibians, if you’re arguing against catastrophic effects of climate change, you might want to not choose an avatar that’s famously indifferent to slowly being cooked alive by degrees. I’m aware that’s quite possibly an urban legend, but the imagery is unfortunate.
My hometown has had a 100 year and 500 year flood this century. It leaves a big fucking mark, in people’s lives. Shitposting on topics you’ve read a little about is lots of fun and games, but would you want to be responsible for flood prevention for a city? Optimism is not effective flood defense, a lot of optimistic people lost their homes. Other optimists try driving through
floods, to ill effect. Why should amateur hour climate experts get a vote in planning planetary flood prevention?
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I understand it’s a real thing but with pithed frogs…the body on its own still reacts to sudden temperature changes but it needs the brain to react to gradual ones. So, you know, maybe some symbolism there.
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