Yeah, inland areas transition to a thermokarst landscape, while places next to the ocean can just disappear entirely.
It depends intensely on what you mean by "thermal runaway" — we can absolutely create a world which will support a much smaller population; we can't really create a world where we boil off the oceans like Venus.
The author literally wrote one of the commonly-used intro texts about climate.
They're well aware of feedbacks, and that's part of the standard understanding that scientists have.
The court decision is indeed one to limit the use of seawalls to protect against property damage. There are limited cases where they'll still be used, but it's not going to be too widespread in California as a result.
And he intimidates everybody around him to hide it:
Reached for comment, the author of the letter said, “If you print that, I will deny I wrote it.” When he was reminded that it had been sent from the same personal e-mail account that he still uses, he said, “I don’t care. I’ll just say it never happened.”
The problem us that private seawalls have the effect of destroying public beaches, which is why California restricts them.
Yeah. Been violated a handful of times (eg: during LA riots) but there are almost no court cases about it
Busy surrendering their third amendment rights of course.
With language, that's usually something you need to do to communicate.
You may not like the term, but it's what everybody else is using.
There's a deep human need to engage in death-related rituals, and burial is one that's been around for a very very long time. I do not expect to end the use of burial.