Antarctic ice-sheet melting to lift sea level higher than thought, study says

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5 points·lnyan··2 comments

>Seriously underestimated

Seems to be the rule of thumb with climate apocalypse now.

There really is no precedence justifying a conservative/reactionary stance on climate change. This won't play itself out somehow. We need proactive Interventions now. It's like with SARS2: We got the second wave, the third wave... no matter how uncomfortable, shit happened exactly like predicted by science - people unnecessarily died. Climate crisis will be so much worse.

As a German, I am really happy about the recent constitutional court ruling extending political legislation's consequences to account for future generations' freedom, and voiding the last insufficient "climate law" by the corrupt CDU/obedient SPD. I hope this level of responsibility gets implement everywhere.

I think most of the world gets this in one way or another, but one political faction in the US refuses to. And since their preferred action is "nothing", our legal system is set up to favor them. It takes an overwhelming effort to change anything at all.

So it doesn't really matter how many articles we get telling us, again, that it's even worse than we thought. They can continue to deny it indefinitely, and the whole rest of the world will be forced to either live with that or shoulder the costs themselves.

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