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- Common sense tells me it is fast land subsidence, not a faster sea level rise that's the issue here. The sea can't permanently rise 3x or 4x compared to the rest of the globe, as water will seek its own level. When it is not rising elsewhere in the world at the same rate, that is a common sense clue that the land is subsiding.
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- Iron Maiden said it best, Run to the Hills...
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- I've wondered for a while if I'm the only person on the planet who thinks it's just a bad idea to build cities that smack right up against the ocean's edge. It seems to me if city planners are shortsighted enough to approve that kind of development they pretty much set the city up for failure in the first place.
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- Ulgnud: "Oh give it a rest. The planet hs been warming and cooling for longer than we have been here. Either do like the rest of nature does and adapt or suffer the consequences."
Ulgnud: "You can learn to adapt to a natural cycle of the planet"
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KPeters_from_UK: "There is a difference between gradual fluctuation between heating and cooling temperatures over centuries and what we are currently experiencing: rapid climate change."
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I just love the screeching from the anti-science deniers, even with a rapidly accelerating warming with each progressive decade warmer than the one before, and a sea level rise that has doubled in recent years from the 20th century average, they still have the gall to say it's just a "natural cycle" and a warmer planet is a "good thing".
Natural climate change in the past proves that climate is sensitive to an energy imbalance. Currently, CO2 is imposing an energy imbalance due to the enhanced greenhouse effect, yet we continue to burn fossil fuels at an unprecedented rate, making humans now the dominant climate forcing.
While organisms can adapt to a "natural cycle," it is yet to be determined whether or not they can adapt to an enhanced and rapidly accelerated cycle, bringing us a much more hostile environment with extended droughts and flooding. - Reply to this comment
- A line of thunderstorms, 100 miles from tip-to-toe, rolled thru the Washington. D.C. area Friday night packing winds of 50-to-80 mph, reports Topper Shutt of CBS D.C. affiliate WUSA-TV. The same clump of storms hit southeastern Ohio and West Virginia with hurricane force winds Friday evening.
These types of storms, known as Musicale Convective System, or Derecho, are usually seen in the Midwest and not in the Mid-Atlantic, Shutt adds. - Reply to this comment
- WE BETTER FACE IT:
For our own safety and future, we should abandon the cities.
The 'city way of life' is not healthy, and too costly in terms of causing further harm and destruction to the balance of our delicate planet. - Reply to this comment
- The sea levels are not rising as a result of climate change. There are a secret group of liberals who each night gather up all of the b-s generated by the pugs that day, put it in bags and then dump it into the ocean. Hence the rising sea levels.
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- A team of special researchers commissioned by the ultra-conservative Political Action Committee known as Propagation of Insular Truth, or PITPAC, has determined from looking at very specific data that, in fact, sea levels are dropping, not rising. The reduction in sea level is due to the accumulation of billions of cubic meters of ice in the deepest and coldest regions of the oceans, where measurements can not be made. According to PITPAC, ice accumulating in these regions is greatly condensed under the enormous pressures of the ocean, causing sea levels at the surface to drop at an alarming rate. PITPAC suggests that dumping billions of tons of additional greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere might help to offset the sea level reduction by accelerating the melting of ice in the polar regions. PITPAC has recently been in talks with some of the nation's largest producers of greenhouse gasses to discuss ways of stabilizing water levels by releasing unprecedented levels of pollutants into the atmosphere as quickly as possible.
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- auir = air
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- I need some help. Who makes auir-boats?
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