Coastal cities alarmingly slow to adapt to climate change: study

A great book on this topic:

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

Maybe they are run by climate change denialists. There are a lot of them about.

By adapting, do they mean moving further inland? Because anything else is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Globally, about 900 million people live in what is called the low elevation coastal zone. We couldn't even build a sea wall to protect the nuclear reactor at Fukushima, do we think we can build sea walls for 900 million people?

While still a monumental task, taking action to stop man made global warming sounds much more practical.

If the Greenland ice cap collapses, we are looking at a sea level rise of about 20 feet, which would impact billions of people, not just those in the low elevation coastal zone.

If the Antarctic ice sheets collapse, which is not beyond the realm of possibility within the next century or two, there could be more than another 100 feet of sea level rise. That is in addition to the 20 feet from a Greenland ice sheet collapse. Building dikes and sea walls just won't suffice.

The attitude towards the "climate change", which is actually a process of rapid warming, should be curbing it, not "adapting" to it. Curbing the warming process is easy, because solar energy is now cheaper than energy produced from burning of carbon, and because electric transportation is now superior over petrol transportation in every aspect. We only have to decide that we want to survive. The denial of the climate crisis and the adherence to carbon are stupid and suicidal.

 it involves giving up on conveniences they have grown to take for granted.

Wrong. It involves blissful modernization and enhancement of good life.

quote: it involves giving up on conveniences they have grown to take for granted.

quote: Wrong.

I think that counts as 'climate change change denial'.