[Up Yours Marxists]

QUICK! Everyone jump into their cars and drive around the block all night. The faster we can get the CO2 up, the faster DC will sink, taking all those jackass politicians into the swamp along with it.

[GingisK]

Well, OK, I was hoping for a nice meteor, but this is OK. Too slow, but better than nothing.

[Eagles6]

"This falling land will exacerbate the flooding that the nation’s capital faces from rising ocean waters due to a warming climate and melting ice sheets—accelerating the threat to the region’s monuments, roads, wildlife refuges, and military installations."

Gotta give 'em credit. In the face of overwhelming facts they stick to their story.

Sorta' like "hands up, don't shoot".

[Huskerfan44]

They will now have make a major taxpayer expenditure to build a dike around it. Whoops, it may already be full of dikes.

[buffaloguy]

I am really trying to be concerned but every time try the word “woohoo!” comes out of my mouth.

[ComputerGuy]

Parts of DC were built on swampy ground. Parts of DC were built on man-made ground. What would you expect? As for ...adding to the problems of sea-level rise...there is no such thing as sea level rise. Anywhere.

[TBP]

Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! Climate change!!!!

[faithhopecharity]

Halleleujah!

[bluejean]

Jeez what a buzz kill!! I saw the whole thing, blowhards, politicians and all, sliding into the ocean maybe tomorrow. And then it says six frickin inches over decades?? Only one way to speed this up - send Chris Christie to DC.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

It’s built on swampland.

[SpaceBar]

And geologists have hypothesized for several decades that land in this area, pushed up by the weight of a pre-historic ice sheet to the north, has been settling back down since the ice melted.

The above sentence is completely bass-ackwards. Not sure if it's a deliberate lie, but it's 180 degrees wrong. Areas under continental ice sheets are pressed down by the immense weight of the ice, and when the ice melts undergo a process called isostatic-rebound just like a cork bobbing in water up once you remove your finger holding it down. The effect is very measurable with modern geodesy techniques, and has been used along with moraines and other landforms to estimate paleo glacial thicknesses.

[dennisw]

[Arthur McGowan]

Move the Supreme Court to Pocatello, Idaho; the House to Birmingham, Ala.; the Senate to Jamestown, N.Dak.; and the White House to Pahrump, Nev.

Leave the bureaucracies in Washington. As the lower floors of the buildins fill with water, fire the people using those floors.

[headstamp 2]

There must NEVER be any changes to the land, oceans or climate in perpetuity.

[US_MilitaryRules]

More like the sewer.

[MarMema]

Maybe their calling is below them. Way below them.

[kaehurowing]

What would happen if every American mailed a brick to the White House at the same time???

[atc23]

Only a tax increase can save our beloved capital!!!

Make haste everyone! Send Washington more greenbacks!!!!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

UVM study: Washington DC Sinking Into Sea

Finally, some good news!

[jmcenanly]

I thought it was because much of Washington is reclaimed swampland. In Lincoln’s time, the area that would become his memorial was in the Potomac.

[WMarshal]

It is because Ted Kennedy’s bloated carcas in Arlington is too heavy.