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America After Climate Change, Mapped

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30 pointsjonbaer20 comments

Very odd they feature earthquakes so prominently on their map of supposed climate change effects. There is very little evidence to suggest climate change has any affect on the frequency of earthquakes humans can feel.

“We’re simply not in a position at this point to say that climate processes could trigger a large quake.”

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2926/can-climate-affect-earthq...

The article is written by a political activist. Might as well include solar activity and locust plague map to demonstrate how much the world is on fire.

How climate change will affect the frequence or intensity of eartquakes?

I agree that, on current predictions taking already know effects, heat, floods and hurricanes should increase.

And, as we are getting into new global conditions compared with historic records, we may face other negative effects due to feedback loops and unexpected interactions, but I don't know how that will affect eartquakes, unless it forces people to move to areas where they are more common.

It was demonstrated pretty convincingly over a decade ago that variations in atmospheric pressure can increase fault activity.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08042

In addition, there is a newly discovered phenomenon called a stormquake. As storms become more powerful due to climate change, we may also see increased seismic activity.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/10/new-seism...

Those are slow earthquakes that can be ignored https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_earthquake

Also there are already hurricanes in the map legend. Nobody would notice a little earthquake during a hurricane.

If sea levels rise, the coastline should change. This map isn't really reflecting that.

Sea level is only going to rise by a few feet. How can a map reflect such a small change?

Large parts of Florida are not much above sea level. Some articles have explored that with maps already, for example:

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/4818/elevation-of-s...

Worst case is 2.5m rise by 2100, which is half the smallest change in your link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise

The link I posted isn't predicting what the future looks like. It's about dealing with flooding and storm surge.

You asked how it can be mapped. It absolutely can be mapped.

Depends...if it’s on top of a 12ft storm surge during a new moon high tide (hurricanes don’t always have good timing) , it could make a big difference.

Use the NOAA Sea Level Rise map that has a slider to let you see the impact: https://coast.noaa.gov/slr

im definitely nitpicking but earthquakes should be yellow and wildfires red. are earthquakes actually impacted by climate change?

Haven't you heard? Everything is impacted by climate change now /s

It seems more and more likely.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/10/new-seism...

Seems like the Green New Deal (since they mention it in the article) is more about socialism than not the environment..?

I'm wondering why people are still using that term.

What part of the Green New Deal is socialism?

The restructuring of the economy?

Socialism is a buzzword in the US. Nobody's giving capital to workers.

The Green New Deal is about the economy because FDR's New Deal was about it too and industry (that appeared with the industrial revolution) is what's responsible for current problems. Restructuring that industry and keeping it in check is key for our good.

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