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The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org)
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has taken the unprecedented step of moving the Doomsday Clock ahead 30 seconds, taking the world to two-and-a-half-minute to midnight. The scientists said Thursday that several factors weighed heavily in their decision, particularly climate change denial by people in power -- they cited U.S. President Donald Trump -- and talk about more nuclear weapons. From a report on NPR: The setting is the closest the clock has come to midnight since 1953, when scientists moved it to two minutes from midnight after seeing both the U.S. and the Soviet Union test hydrogen bombs. It remained at that mark until 1960. "Make no mistake, this has been a difficult year," Rachel Bronson, executive director and publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said as the new setting was announced Thursday.
I keep hearing that, and yet every year more and more people keep moving here to Phoenix because they don't like the cold, and we still haven't had any kind of movement out of even warmer areas that can't afford air conditioning.
I could see people moving away from coastal areas, but frankly that wouldn't be anything new at all; the coastlines have never actually been all that constant, we're just used to thinking they are because we see them remain relatively similar across enough generations that we never notice how much they actually change.
And truth be told, there are many former towns that are now under ocean water. It's only going to be harder to deal with it now because we've built massive infrastructures right on the sea line, where in the past it was small huts that were easy to move or just flat out ignore if they got flooded.