'‘Sunny day flooding’ worsens at NC beaches — a sign sea rise is decades too soon, studies say'

[AdamSmith]

Heeere we go...

‘Sunny day flooding’ worsens at NC beaches — a sign sea rise is decades too soon, studies say

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/technology/article210413904.html

[AdamSmith]

20 NC coastal communities could be flooded by sea water in 15 years, new report says

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article170066037.html

[RA1]

I always wanted some beachfront property in Memphis (elevation 331).    I realize this is a serious situation but it has taken 400+ years to get this way (Industrial Revolution) and I don't think we can solve it during our life time even though you intend to live forever. 

Have any actual or realistic solutions in mind?  Besides cuddling up with a toothsome boy and thinking things over?

Best regards,

RA1

[AdamSmith]

There are some apparently realistic -- though still undoable, thus far -- ideas for "carbon sequestration," i.e. extracting CO2 from the atmosphere and injecting it deep underground. But there is debate over whether any such approach could scrub enough of it to make a climatic difference, especially with so many other climate-collapse drivers, most especially ocean changes, already triggered and operating faster and faster.

[RA1]

Yes, there is already so much CO2 in the oceans that I dare not wonder what will happen next.

Best regards,

RA1

[AdamSmith]

And even before that, just that the atmospheric heat-trapping effects of airborne CO2 are melting the ice sheets with pending (even happening now) catastrophic effect.

And then the resultant screwing up of critical ocean megacurrents (Gulf Stream et al.) that worked to keep the global temperature more or less in balance.

...Been nice knowing you all! 

[AdamSmith]