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Rising sea levels are going to mess with the internet
- Subject: Rising sea levels are going to mess with the internet
- From: me at colinbaker.net (Colin Baker)
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 02:09:23 -0500
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On 2018-07-22 20:01, Sean Donelan wrote:
> https://www.popsci.com/sea-level-rise-internet-infrastructure
>
> Rising sea levels are going to mess with the internet, sooner than you
> think
>
> [...]
> Despite its magnitude, this network is increasingly vulnerable to sea
> levels inching their way higher, according to research presented at an
> academic conference in Montreal this week. The findings estimate that
> within 15 years, thousands of miles of what should be land-bound
> cables in the United States will be submerged underwater.
>
> â??Most of the climate change-related impacts are going to happen very
> soon,â?? says Paul Barford, a computer scientist at the University of
> Wisconsin and lead author of the paper.
> [...]
These guys would freak if they popped open a manhole in the spring
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