No, this is not funny anymore – it is more than scary: Louise Farquharson and coworkers report that the maximum thaw depths in permafrost soils in Northern Canada already exceed those projected by 2090!
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019GL082187
Just keep on flying to holiday destinations, and conferences, keep on going to work, shopping and taking your kids to school by car – in the meantime prepare for the migration waves that can soon be expected in all lowlands! It is high time to act in order to combat these dramatic changes. Policy and legislation finally have to awake from their decade-long meander. Yesterday, during a very interesting discussion at the “Club of Lilianthal”, a student made an excellent point:
“If you realise that you are driving your car towards a wall you’d rather put on the brake as hard as you can – and not just a little bit.”
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