Also likely plenty of oil to be discovered under those ice sheets, so the defrosting of Antarctica will be a virtuous cycle.
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Big Climatology doesn't want you to remember that global warming will not only unlock an entire new continent, but solve a whole host of currently intractable social problems. Want a more equitable Senate and an expanded Bay Area with lots of room for new homes? Burn that coal!pic.twitter.com/bqh8YGp3EV
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You want Brexit? Global warming will give you Brexit on steroids. No more worries about a land border with Northern Ireland, and London becomes a fun scuba destination instead of dominating British politics.pic.twitter.com/qkOlzKHm6Q
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Big schadenfreude opportunities for Taiwan if all the ice caps melt.pic.twitter.com/sVnYqlQuKM
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Australians are constantly whining about climate change but a huge barren chunk of their interior would become livable if Antarctica melted.pic.twitter.com/A5QM9APoVv
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Cool maps taken from here:https://vividmaps.com/the-world-with-a-70-meters-sea-level-rise/ …
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(The real lesson of this 70 meter sea level rise map is that China is the one great power for whom climate change *is* an existential threat, and they will try some bonkers geoengineering shit long before they allow Sichuan Bay to happen)pic.twitter.com/M7SFnGnhmC
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Helluva a commute. But I guess StarLink makes that moot.
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Everyone will just "work from home", remember?
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Spring Break: Antarctica!
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