A new study has confirmed that the Gulf Stream, a crucial ocean current that helps regulate climate and sea levels, is weakening. The flow of warm water through the Florida Straits has slowed by 4% over the past four decades. This slowdown has significant implications for the world’s climate, and scientists are concerned that it may be a sign of further weakening to come.

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      Those aren’t hurting the ‘right’ people. Wait for major coastal cities in western countries to be affected.

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        They are still building high-rises 50M from the shoreline in Miami, FL.

        There is no saving it, you can’t build a seawall on limestone. Did I mention the limestone is dissolving due to acidification?

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        It will never be hurting the right people until the people themselves are hurt.

        This is a crime of selfishness and a failure of society.

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        Folks in Venice are regularly up to their knees in water already. New Orleans still has 25% less population than it did before Katrina. It’s already affecting major coastal cities in western countries, and even that doesn’t matter.

        This guy got it right: the entire western sociopolitical system is designed to stop this kind of problem from being solved.

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        The ‘right’ people will go somewhere else, Mt. Everest isn’t going underwater anytime soon, there’s plenty of places for the ‘right’ people to relocate their summer vacation mansions.