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Re: [gaia] Study suggests buried Internet infrastructure at risk as sea levels rise

Jon Crowcroft <jon.crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 17 July 2018 13:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [gaia] Study suggests buried Internet infrastructure at risk as sea levels rise
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maybe when the sea level falls again in 5000 years from now, this sort
of discovery will re-occur, only the instead of megaliths, it'll be
rusted switches and optical repeaters...:)

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-find-of-a-lifetime-megalithic-passage-tomb-cemetery-discovered-at-meath-world-heritage-site-37123288.html

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Matthew Ford <ford@isoc.org> wrote:
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>> On 17 Jul 2018, at 08:44, Dhanaraj Thakur <dhanaraj.thakur@webfoundation.org> wrote:
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>> HI all,
>> This looks like an important study on the impact of climate change of internet infrastructure development. The focus here is on the US, but I can see the relevance in countries (such as SIDS) where a rise in sea levels is already being felt.
>> https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uow-ssb071218.php
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> Note that this work was presented during the Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW) 2018 here in Montreal yesterday. Video of the workshop will be available soon.
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> https://irtf.org/anrw/2018/program.html
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> The presentation also made the news here:
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> https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Klimawandel-Tausende-Kilometer-US-Glasfaser-koennten-absaufen-4111434.html
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> Mat
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