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Climate change will mean the end of national parks as we know them
theguardian.com ^ | Aug. 22, 2016 | Oliver Milman

Posted on 08/22/2016 4:16:12 PM PDT by PROCON

After a century of shooing away hunters, tending to trails and helping visitors enjoy the wonder of the natural world, the guardians of America’s most treasured places have been handed an almost unimaginable new job – slowing the all-out assault climate change is waging against national parks across the nation.

As the National Parks Service (NPS) has charted the loss of glaciers, sea level rise and increase in wildfires spurred by rising temperatures in recent years, the scale of the threat to US heritage across the 412 national parks and monuments has become starkly apparent.

As the National Parks Service turns 100 this week, their efforts to chart and stem the threat to the country’s history faces a daunting task. America’s grand symbols and painstakingly preserved archaeological sites are at risk of being winnowed away by the crashing waves, wildfires and erosion triggered by warming temperatures.

The Statue of Liberty is at “high exposure” risk from increasingly punishing storms. A national monument dedicated to abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who will be enshrined on a new $20 note, could be eaten away by rising tides in Maryland. The land once walked by Pocahontas and Captain John Smith in Jamestown, the first English settlement in the US, is surrounded by waters rising at twice the global average and may be beyond rescue.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; globalwrminghoax; goebbels; nationalparks; propaganda
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To: PROCON
"... increase in wildfires spurred by rising temperatures in recent years,"

Not to mention arsonists.

NOT TO MENTION arsonists.

21 posted on 08/22/2016 4:34:12 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("It is better to better to be slapped with the Truth than to be kissed with a Lie."- Yiddish proverb)
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To: PROCON
surrounded by waters rising at twice the global average...

How is this physically possible? The only way would be not that the sea is rising, but this bit of lad is sinking.

22 posted on 08/22/2016 4:34:17 PM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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To: PROCON

I know a faster and better way to end national parks as we know them. Give those land takings back to the individual states!

The time has come
A fact’s a fact
It belongs to them
Let’s give it back.


23 posted on 08/22/2016 4:34:48 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: PROCON
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24 posted on 08/22/2016 4:36:01 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: PROCON

I prefer to agree with them on this, and here is why:

This is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, American Lives are at stake here, I propose we IMMEDIATELY CONDEMN ALL PROPERTY WITHIN 5 MILES of ANY COAST, All Property within the 5 mile ZOne is declared UNINHABITABLE AT ANY TIME, All Properties that have ANY type of Living Quarters or the Capability to Accomodate Overnight Stays, SHALL BE DEMOLISHED IMMEDIATELY, All Property Owners affected SHALL PAY for ALL Cleanup of Uninhabitable Properties. For the Safety of All Americans./


25 posted on 08/22/2016 4:39:42 PM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

you first


26 posted on 08/22/2016 4:40:15 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: PROCON

Oh darn! Well, let’s sell it to investors. Build some condos, golf courses, logging, manage it so the forest fires have much less impact ... mine the sh*t out of it for natural resources. Jobs, opportunity, wealth. And have it even better. Which naturally happens whenever the government, any government, is not involved.


27 posted on 08/22/2016 4:45:00 PM PDT by Eagles Field
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To: GoldenPup

YAY! We can divert all of those dollars for unused National Parks to the Climate Change coffers! /sarc


28 posted on 08/22/2016 4:45:24 PM PDT by Klemper (i)
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To: PROCON

Have you all looked lately at the USA acreage make up the national parks/national land? Some are historic, some are recreation areas, some are battlefields, etc., but they are Fed run. Just noticed a few days ago. There are some states where most of the state is national. ALL of Michigan’s UP is a national forest for instance and is administered by the U.S. Forest Service.

When did all this happen?


29 posted on 08/22/2016 4:50:42 PM PDT by madison10 (#OnlyTrump #NeverHillary)
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To: PROCON

according to al gore the planet ahs already gone up in a might conflagration......

this story smells ..... welll....like bullsheet


30 posted on 08/22/2016 4:50:43 PM PDT by zzwhale (no way)
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To: PROCON

The national debt will end the national parks. I.e., collateral to the Chinese


31 posted on 08/22/2016 4:53:00 PM PDT by stevio (God,Guns,Guts.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
NOT TO MENTION arsonists.

Yes that pesky item seems to get buried.

I read an AP article last week regarding the apprehension of an arsonist who set a California wildfire that burnt numerous homes.

32 posted on 08/22/2016 4:55:59 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: PROCON

The sea rise stories are baloney. The glaciers have been retreating since the late 1800’s (so much for CO2 emissions), and the forest fire havoc is largely due to decades of fire suppression which allows undergrowth to increase unhampered until fires won’t put out themselves.


33 posted on 08/22/2016 5:06:21 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: PROCON

Aside from the fact that the Constitution does not authorize the federal government to either establish or maintain national parks . . .


34 posted on 08/22/2016 5:08:08 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: PROCON

It’s the crazy libs who leave crap all over the place when they play mountain climber.


35 posted on 08/22/2016 5:10:48 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (It appears as if Trump is our Yeltsin.)
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To: PROCON
the loss of glaciers, sea level rise and increase in wildfires spurred by rising temperatures

How many national parks contain any glaciers?

How many national parks are anywhere near the sea, where a slight rise would cause any noticeable change?

Wildfires occur frequently in national parks, and they have nothing to do with "rising temperatures," except as the proximate cause of some fairly intense rises in local temperature.

36 posted on 08/22/2016 5:12:39 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: PROCON

Oh No spontaneous combustion at the Equator will be a very big problem and all the Water will turn to steam ,D’oh


37 posted on 08/22/2016 5:21:27 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: PROCON

Is it because the government has complained that black people don’t want to go to national parks?


38 posted on 08/22/2016 5:22:40 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: PROCON

Unadulterated horse crap! Fresh, steamy, green and wet.


39 posted on 08/22/2016 5:22:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (~Our government lies and the media helps them.~)
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To: madison10

The National Parks System was established in 1916 following the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872.

The National Forest System was established in 1891.

So, about 100 - 144 years ago depending upon which Congressional act you want to cite as the real beginning of it.


40 posted on 08/22/2016 5:36:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (~Our government lies and the media helps them.~)
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