Guardian Scratching for Local weather Tipping Factors – The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette

Raising a block of buildings on Lake Street, Chicago. Public domain image, Edward Mendel Chicago Historical Society
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to The Guardian, the melting of Greenland, which could take centuries, could trigger several meters sea level rise and a cascade of other urgent tipping points. But rising sea level is no threat to the worlds cities. Much of Chicago and Seattle is many feet above the original street level, because people in the 1800s wanted to save their dist…

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