Is over-rated for these folks. They like being ostriches.

The big birds are eating and observers misinterpreted. The big birds are smarter than magas

I never really looked into the habits of ostriches, to be honest. I was guessing that they might be doing something like what I have seen many a grouse do, hide behind something that covers their eye yet the rest of their body is fully visible... long as they can't see you, you can't see them.

But I guessed wrong. Huh.

I used to hang out a lot a the zoo when I lived in the city, so got time observing animals not from around here. Almost taught an orangutan how to work an old Argus 35mm camera. While we watch them, THEY are watching us.

it's worrisome.

to Jeff Goldblum.

A country at war with science and enraptured by conspiracy theories will eventually run into the facts. Some scientists say that our branch of hominids out competed others because we were flexible. What if that innate flexibility can be overcome by propaganda? I think it can and the last century and the present one are proof. Lose the ability to plan and accommodate nature and you will lose your life.

Richard Feynman

He had done some range extending modifications to a small plane. These added weight.
He said you can sometimes fool the FAA into certifying something. But you can't fool your wings.

The same here. You can't fool nature and physics.

Loved his van, with his diagrams all over it.

to say, not a penny of Federal money to Florida to help them continue to maintain beachfront property that is going to be overrun with the climate change they have refused to act on. Let Mother Nature do what she is determined to do. Floridians will have had a century of warning, so I see no reason why anybody else should pay for losses when much of that property becomes unusable.

Make it so the FEMA charges are based on yearly risk factors and paid into it yearly by teh states based on risk.
Florida, Louisianna, Mississippi, and Texas will need income taxes just to pay the premiums.

Again.

The problem south Florida has is that the ground fis porous with cracks and daults every where. Since water seeks its own level when the sea goes up so does the water table because they are connected. As the sea goes up it also intrudes into the fresh water aquifers. Raising a house won't help you if your water supply gets tainted with salt water. Basically south Florida is screwed. It is just a question of when the tipping point there hits.

Miami's water manager is doing what he can based on the political situation. But long haul he will loose. This would be the time to sell if you own there. The state government should be actively doing stuff to help people get out of the way but not with the GOP in charge.

So, yeah, good luck with those seawalls and everything.

So much of the city is built on manufactured land. Have read that is at serious risk if another really bad quake hits there, but wondering what sea level rising might do to that created real estate.

Even the parts built up with fill have solid bedrock under them. Marina, Foster City. That being said to protect from sea level rise you, at some point will have to put in levies or raise the coastline of the bay. Three feet won't be too bad but you will get salt water intrusion further up the two rivers which feed the area. Decisions on what to save and what to defend will have to be made. And should probably be being made now.
The real problem comes further down the the time line. Some scientists believe that we have baked in somewhere between 100 to 200 ft., or more of sea level rise based on ocean levels when there was this much CO2 in the air before. At 200 feet the vast majorityh of FL is gone. Most of NYC. Pretty much all coastal cities will be compleatly inundated. We have destroyed the world as we knew it. Us living now won't see it happen but our great grandchildren will have to live it.

…. White Cedar Forests.

'Ghost forests' threaten New Jersey's water, ecosystem
The state has lost over 100,000 acres of Atlantic white cedar.

A disturbing sight is growing in southern New Jersey's woodlands.

Acres of "ghost forests" have been popping up as an increase of saltwater in the soil has been killing what remains of the Atlantic white cedar trees that populate the area. The situation was part of a cycle where past climate change events, such as Superstorm Sandy, and logging created a situation where the soil lost its fresh water, according to experts.

"It's that it's been happening incredibly fast and that we have so little of this precious resource," Todd Wyckoff, the New Jersey State Forester, told ABC News Live.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/ghost-forests-threaten-new-jerseys-water-ecosystem/story?id=105206453