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Why won't state-corporate media put 2035 or 2040 in the headlines for articles on sea level rise?

Bangkok, for example, is set to be 40% underwater by 2030 according to the World Bank.

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
'A World Bank study predicted that 40 percent of the Thai capital may be submerged by 2030.'

Thailand's 2015 National Reform Council report predicted that Bangkok risks being submerged as early as the 2020s:

aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/t…
By 2060, about 1.4 billion people could be climate change refugees due to rising ocean levels. Those who once lived on coastlines will face displacement and resettlement bottlenecks as they seek habitable places inland. news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/0…
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Ben See
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Insect apocalypse:

1. 98% loss in some regions
2. entomologists: crisis is global
3. abundance/biodiversity decline
4. other arthropods vanishing too
5. link to bird, lizard, frog declines
6. fears for food chain
7. culprit: habitat destruction
8. also pesticides, climate change
'compelling evidence of a major problem — large-scale declines in the numbers and diversity of insects and other jointed invertebrates known as arthropods'

'insect declines are real, and they’re every bit as severe as had been feared'nature.com/articles/d4158…
The calamity appears to be across most insect families and happening around the world:

On a scale of 0 to 10, researchers on six continents rated the severity of the insect abundance crisis as either 8/10, 9/10 or 10/10.
news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-gr…
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Ben See
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Remember:

🇹🇭 Bangkok
🇵🇭 Manila
🇮🇳 Mumbai
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
🇮🇩 Jakarta
🇪🇬 Alexandria
🇫🇯 Fiji
🇧🇩 Chittagong
🇰🇮 Kiribati
🇮🇶 Basrah
🇲🇻 The Maldives
🇨🇦 Vancouver
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Skegness
🇸🇨 Seychelles
🇫🇷 La Rochelle
🇮🇩 Surabaya
🇬🇾 Georgetown
🇳🇱 Amsterdam
🇨🇳 Shanghai

All underwater by 2035.
1. Sea level rise is accelerating and happening faster than expected.

James Hansen says we could hit 5m within decades.

Nobody knows for sure how quickly it will progress, but it will hit hard sooner rather than later.

Explore this thread for details: 👇
2. A key question: will these places be underwater numerous times during a given year, or permanently from 2035?

See this interactive map to get a sense of sea level rise and flooding for each city/island nation by 2030 and 2040:
coastal.climatecentral.org/map/8/100.5836…
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Insects:

1. 98% loss in some regions
2. entomologists: crisis is global
3. abundance/biodiversity decline
4. other arthropods vanishing too
5. link to bird, lizard, frog declines
6. culprit: habitat destruction
7. also pesticides, climate chaos
8. science now robust/indisputable
A definitive answer:

'compelling evidence of a major problem — large-scale declines in the numbers and diversity of insects and other jointed invertebrates known as arthropods'

'insect declines are real, and they’re every bit as severe as had been feared'nature.com/articles/d4158…
Potentially across most insect families and around the world:

'when asked how they would rate the insect abundance crisis on a scale of 0 to 10 — 10 being direst — the answers Mongabay received from researchers on six continents ranged from 8 to, yes, 10'
news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-gr…
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State Government Debt Risk - a history that repeats too often!

As the work on building Amravati, the new capital city AP, comes to a grinding halt, concerns emerge about Amravati (APCRDA) bonds held by Franklin MF (~Rs. 1000 Cr) and Birla MF (Rs. ~300 Cr). Thread 1/11
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Bjorn Lomborg
@BjornLomborg
Clickbait vs truth:

2018 Nature study shows Tuvalu *increased* in size despite sea level rise and 'will persist for habitation over next century'

Cover of Time with UN Secretary-General in water outside Tuvalu 'Our Sinking Planet'
time.com/longform/sinki…
nature.com/articles/s4146…
Story talks about all the 'vulnerable nations' like Kiribati and the Marshall Islands
Both have seen *increasing* land area

Indeed, lastest meta-overview shows "no atoll exhibited a decrease in land area over the past decades to century"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
How is this possible?
Bc small islands are dynamic:
Storms breaking up surrounding coral, washing up on beach, slightly increasing/rising area
Sea level rise reducing area
(& humans both increasing area and destroying it through destabilization)
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Martin Hodgson
@MartinxHodgson
Both Felipe Gómez and Jakelin Caal came from remote indigenous communities, where migration has long been seen a reasonable response to Guatemala’s hardship, racism and violence.

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“Children were torn from mothers' arms and eviscerated by knives or beheaded by machetes. The rampaging troops killed all they found, shooting some villagers, blowing some up with grenades, hacking some to death, burning some or crushing them under... falling buildings.”
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The_War_Economy
@The_War_Economy
Yes, I am fully aware of the QAnon post about Ian Cameron, McKinsey & Company, Emmett J. Rice and the Federal Reserve.

I will still focus on Adam Schiff and Chelsea Handler and other subjects that interest me after this.

But here you go anyway.
Ian Cameron is the husband of Susan Rice.

Susan Rice used to work at McKinsey & Company. Chelsea Clinton worked there part-time between 2003 to 2006.

Emmett J. Rice used to work at the Federal Reserve.
This is the article confirming the marriage between Susan Rice and Ian Cameron, and Susan's connections to McKinsey & Company.

nytimes.com/1992/09/13/sty…
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