To weaken; make less strong; to reduce in force, intensity, quantity or even value; to make thin or slender
Frontier
@frontierresearch.co
In one of the world's largest wave flumes, a salt marsh's soil barely eroded under waves of up to 2 m significant height, but its plants were progressively damaged. The plants' wave attenuation topped 10% (up to 50%) only on low-energy coasts, waves up to 1 m. #coastal #wetlands
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Victor
@wwbugs.bsky.social
The contribution of salt marshes to wave attenuation during extreme storms. #storms #saltmarshes #waves https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11145-8
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emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social
Some reasons to be cautious abt the Vanity Fair story (there are more I won't yet share).
1) Cole's claims to knowledge of this is very attenuated.
2) The model Discoveries via Dutch reconstruction of GRU hacks matches how OTHER RU disinformation was spread.
https://emptywheel.net/2026/10/23/jareds-account/
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