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As U.S. cities begin to plan to adapt to impacts from climate change, local decision makers face difficult choices about how to even get started.
A new study led by a University of Kansas urban planning researcher sheds light on tradeoffs between taking a narrow approach focused on connections between climate change adaptation and reducing risks from hazards like Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, and taking a broader approach connecting adaptation to a wide array of city functions.
"Climate change impacts will be pervasive - forcing changes to transportation, housing, emergency management and countless other parts of our daily lives—and cities will need holistic strategies," said Ward Lyles, assistant professor of urban planning in the KU School of Public Affairs & Administration. "Our research identifies a paradox, however. Cities that begin with a narrower focus as part of planning for natural hazards appear to lay a stronger foundation for a more comprehensive approach down the line. Meanwhile, cities that start by tackling the comprehensive range of climate-related impacts initially may lack the focus needed to robustly address climate change impacts, like flooding and severe storms."
Fat chance. Waterworld is happening, baby.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday October 13 2017, @10:47AM (7 children)
Waterworld premise:
Reality [nationalgeographic.com]:
So Waterworld is off only by a factor of 100.
Granted, New York and Miami will be underwater, of course Netherlands and Venice will be gonners, but rejoice: Beijng will have seaside beaches and North Korea will be almost unaffected.
There isn't that much water on/inside Earth [usgs.gov]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday October 13 2017, @11:40AM (4 children)
Yup. Same argument can be made (in vain) against people who take the biblical flood too literally.
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @02:19PM (2 children)
Given that the flood has multiple sources, and given that in the bible the age in years of men before and after the flood is different (and has very tenuous theological meaning so is likely not symbolic) which points to a different rotation rate of the planet itself or to something equally radical, I would not pull the popular RationalAmerican(tm) stunt and assume it was something of smaller scale.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday October 13 2017, @03:37PM
Like a translation error. The given ages were probably the same before and after, it was just in different units of time (say lunar months versus years). The rationalization that God for some bizarre reason shortened the lifespan of humans was probably a rhetorical fig leaf over this error.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday October 13 2017, @05:44PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @07:17PM
Back in the 1960s, before he became krytonite, Bill Cosby had the best take on this. [google.com]
"I keep telling the rabbits, 'Only two, only two'."
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @12:53PM (1 child)
Well, if New Jersey is also underwater, I'd call it fair enough.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 13 2017, @01:43PM
Yes but then all the toxic waste buried in New Jersey, both its substances and its people, will float elsewhere and contaminate perfectly lovely communities.
Washington DC delenda est.