Donald Trump has said many times in the last few months that because of global warming, sea level will rise an eighth of an inch in several hundred years…
He usually follows by adding that “we’ll have more beachfront property.”
It is just about the stupidest thing one could possibly say about sea level rise.
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
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