Glacial outburst floods in Juneau, Alaska are a direct consequence of climate change. The lake that forms behind the ice dam was formerly a glaciated area itself. Now water ponds there before getting around the ice dam and flooding neighborhoods in Juneau.

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    3 months ago

    Flooding in the last month in the US? Texas, Florida, Alaska. Two cat 1 hurricanes that dumped far more water than predicted and a unprecedented glacial melt event.

    How comforting we have a acted aggressively on mitigating this and climate change generally. Oh wait… 2.1° here we come.

    (Feel free to add more, I can’t know them all.)