#GreenlandIce usage
#GreenlandCanadaPipeline

(4/n)

... years, rather decades to build. So, in my view, now would be a good time to start planning.

As an afterthought:
Shouldn't we try to capture some melt water in yet-to-be-built artificial lakes until then?

Ten years ago, I'd have had to agree with you telling me that I've read to much sci-fi.
In a world of interdependent #TippingPoints with #BoilingOceans and #CoralBleeching, where the...

@Ruth_Mottram @SnowshadowII

We need to act now to minimise the devastation we're inflicting on this planet.

Usually alive with colour and fish, Ningaloo reef and the Rowley Shoals now look as though they are ‘painted white’ as temperatures rise:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/07/wa-coral-unprecedented-bleaching-event-ningaloo-reef

#News #Newstodon #NewsTooter #environment #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Coral #CoralBleeching

‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event

Usually alive with colour and fish, Ningaloo reef and the Rowley Showls now look as though they are ‘painted white’ as temperatures rise

The Guardian

@Seruko @[email protected]

#ClimateCatastrophe #ExtinctionLevelEvent #ELE #CoralBleeching

Here is a link without paywall:

http://web.archive.org/web/20240415181258/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/opinion/a-world-without-coral-reefs.html

"IT’S past time to tell the truth about the state of the world’s #CoralReefs, the nurseries of tropical coastal #fish stocks. They have become #ZombieEcosystems, neither dead nor truly alive in any functional sense, and 👉on a trajectory to collapse within a human generation.👈 There will be remnants here and there, but the global coral reef ecosystem.."

Opinion | A World Without Coral Reefs

By persisting in the false belief that coral reefs have a future, we grossly misallocate the funds needed to cope with the fallout from their collapse.

The New York Times