"Climate change leave the Erf alone!"...
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
A lot of white settlers planted trees.....
Curse you johnny appleseed.....
No doubt!
The enviro-wacko hustle reminds me of Tom Waits' Step Right Up
I think it’s all good news, I mean how are we supposed to see the wonders of the Grand Canyon if there’s a glacier covering it up?
(ha ha)
Start with liberal owned ocean front property.
"Climate change leave the Erf alone!"...
At least we all own the beachfront between the tides. The Japanese purchase of Pebble Beach turned out to be a disaster because of that, as they wanted to take Pebble private.
...and I thought it was the busloads of Chines tourists.
LOL...:o))
Soon?
Tsk, tsk, you young whipper-snappers!
When I was your age......etc, etc, etc...:-)
Yeah, yeah, I know ... one mile to school in the blazing desert sun,
two miles home in a raging prairie blizzard...
I’m sure glad the climate changed before I came along. ;-)
The blooming idiots posing as “scientists” wouldn’t know science if it bit them on the a**. I believe all they are concerned about is grant money and social control. I’m going to burn a couple old tractor tires tonight in their “honor” (as if they had any). They are getting tiresome with this BS.
No mention of muslims turning lush areas invariably into wastelands...
Frankly, I do not see hunters and wildlife monitors worry too much about deer population and what not from global warming. Maybe these journos who never hunt and know sht about nature should take it from them whose harvesting wealth depends on it.
Guess what I was getting at was the EXPANSION of the national park system(s). Sleeping Bear Dunes used to belong to Michigan.
When it comes to the western states they’ve been that way for a long time.
East of the Mississippi I wouldn’t know about.
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