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August 23, 2020 21 mins

Welcome to the Green Urbanist Podcast. My name is Ross and this podcast is about how urbanists of all kinds can step up the climate emergency.

This episode is Part 2 in a series on Climate Change is affecting and reshaping our cities. The topic is sea level rise and some of the points covered include:

  • Why the sea level is rising more in some cities, and dropping in others.
  • How melting ice caps shift Earth's rotation.
  • The effect of melting glaciars on the oceanic circulation system, and what this could mean, and
  • The story of Jakarta, the megacity that is being consumed by the rising tide.


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Intro music by Tanoi
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Sources

Sea Level Rise

https://climate.nasa.gov/blog/3002/sea-level-101-part-two-all-sea-level-is-local/

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html

https://e360.yale.edu/features/will_climate_change_jam_the_global_ocean_conveyor_belt

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07052018/atlantic-ocean-circulation-slowing-climate-change-heat-temperature-rainfall-fish-why-you-should-care


Jakarta

https://jakartaglobe.id/context/jokowi-decides-jakartas-time-is-up-indonesias-new-capital-will-be-outside-java

https://www.eco-business.com/news/jakartas-sea-level-prompts-a-move-at-a-price/

https://www.wired.com/story/jakarta-is-sinking/

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/jakarta-sinking

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/world/asia/jakarta-sinking-climate.html

https://earth.org/data_visualization/sea-level-rise-by-the-end-of-the-century-alexandria-2/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44636934

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/jakarta-sinks-as-indonesian-capital-and-borneo-takes-on-mantle-20190826-p52kvp.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta

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