Doomsday warning: It's time to start moving coastal cities to higher ground - here's why - WRAL TechWire

It is time to begin moving to higher ground.

Start today.

Why is it so important to avoid delay and start construction today.

Because there are so many scientific indicators about the coming collapse of the Thwaites Glacier (AKA the “Doomsday Glacier”).

By taking action today, we can survive the epic flooding that will occur by moving out of harm’s way ahead of time.

The second article (CBS news) says the collapse could come “within as little as five years.” The third article (Fortune) quoting Robert Larter says, “Thwaites is really holding on today by its fingernails, and we should expect to see big changes over small timescales in the future—even from one year to the next—once the glacier retreats beyond a shallow ridge in its bed.” The message is simple and consistent: catastrophe is right around the corner. This video from PBS News Hour explains how massive the effects will be once the Thwaites Glacier collapses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aogMKvzN2x4.

Looking at the above articles, we know that A) the collapse of the Thwaites Glacier appears to be imminent, and B) the world’s leaders are doing little of any significance to prevent its collapse.

Any prudent and competent business leader, government official or homeowner must take the necessary steps to move to higher ground now before this glacier collapses and ruins everything near the coast.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has a brilliant mapping tool that lets us see exactly what will happen once the Thwaites Glacier collapses and sea levels rise by to 10 feet.

Bacow, President of Harvard University, it is time for you to begin construction of your new Harvard 2.0 campus on higher ground.

You need to start today.

When the Thwaites Glacier collapses, Harvard University will be underwater.

You must act today and start building a new campus on higher ground today, or you will lose everything.

About that time, Thwaites Glacier will be collapsing.

You will have moved to higher ground just in time if you start the process today.

Therefore, it is time for Boston to find a site and start constructing a new airport.

You should start building Logan airport 2.0 at a new site on much higher ground today.

The time to start moving our nation’s capital to higher ground is today.

Unfortunately, nearly the entire city of Miami will be lost once the Thwaites Glacier collapses:.

If you own a home or commercial real estate anywhere near Miami, the time to abandon your property and move to higher ground is now.

Like your fellow CEOs in Boston, it is time for these CEOs and many others to start moving their headquarters out of Miami and to higher ground.

It’s a perfect spot to launch rockets today, but unfortunately it will be underwater when the Thwaites Glacier lets go.

To the New York Stock Exchange and all of the Wall Street firms associated with it: it is time for you to move to higher ground.

Maybe, instead of letting New York City be destroyed in a cataclysmic flood coming from the Thwaites Glacier, the nations of the world should unite together to stabilize the Thwaites Glacier before it collapses and raises global sea levels by 10 feet.

Let’s repeat this last point because it is so important: Maybe, instead of letting New York City (and all of the world’s coastal cities) be destroyed in a cataclysmic flood, the nations of the world should unite together to stabilize the Thwaites Glacier before it collapses into the ocean and raises global sea levels by 10 feet.

Consider this: Why hasn’t the United Nations, after issuing dozens of urgent climate change reports, already moved its headquarters out of New York City to a safe elevation.

Prudent and competent leaders of corporations, government entities and households must begin to take action today to get out of harm’s way and move to higher ground before the Thwaites Glacier collapses.

If we do neither, then we deserve what happens when the Thwaites Glacier collapses.

Scientists are telling us that the collapse of the Thwaites Glacier is imminent unless humanity takes dramatic, significant, highly-funded action right now

Recent data indicates that the Thwaites Glacier will collapse in just a few years

Standing in opposition to the scientists are the climate deniers, talking about how all the scientists are wrong and that “climate change is a hoax”

“According to new analysis from the Center for American Progress, there are still 139 elected officials in the 117th Congress, including 109 representatives and 30 senators, who refuse to acknowledge the scientific evidence of human-caused climate change

Here is what the scientists are telling us: We could easily be approaching 1.5 degrees C of warming around 2030, because climate change is accelerating

We need to listen to what the scientists are telling us about the Thwaites Glacier and climate change in general

When they say that the Thwaites Glacier could collapse in a few years without intervention, we should believe them, and we should intervene at a massive scale because so much is at stake

We, the global human species, need to take dramatic, significant, highly-funded action right now to solve the many facets of the climate change problem that scientists have identified