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California to see higher than average sea level rise, report says
Los Angeles Times ^ | June 22, 2012 | Tony Barboza

Posted on 06/22/2012 5:02:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Sea levels along the California coast are expected to rise as much as 1 foot in 20 years, 2 feet by 2050 and as much as 5 1/2 feet by the end of the century, climbing slightly faster than the global average and increasing the risk of flooding and storm damage, a new study says.

“Sea level rise isn’t a political question it’s a scientific reality,” said Gary Griggs-Wanker, a coastal geologist at UC Santa Cruz and a member of the committee that issued the report.

The 274-page report was drafted by a committee of U.S. scientists that formed as a result of a 2008 executive order by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, which directed state agencies to plan for the effects of sea level rise.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: climategate; globalwarming; hoax
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1 posted on 06/22/2012 5:02:16 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

California will now pass legislation outlawing the Sun for getting warmer than it prefers. And will tax all the people on an increasingly sliding scale until it performs accordingly.


2 posted on 06/22/2012 5:06:21 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Guns Walked -- People Died -- Holder Lied -- Obama Golfed (thanks, Secret Agent Man))
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To: freedumb2003
Gary Griggs-Wanker

Who could believe anything this guy says with a name like that??

3 posted on 06/22/2012 5:08:31 PM PDT by USMA '71 ((Re-elect no one!))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So is the Pacific Ocean tilting east and Japan will have corresponding lower levels?


4 posted on 06/22/2012 5:08:35 PM PDT by AU72
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The only way to solve this “problem” is to jail Bush/Cheney/Halliburton for war crimes, take all the money from the rich, burn Wall Street, destroy Israel.


5 posted on 06/22/2012 5:09:45 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gee Al Gore’s $9 million California seaside mansion might get flooded. You think that Mr. the seas are going to rise and inundate our coasts would have seen that coming.


6 posted on 06/22/2012 5:11:01 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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If you are on a subduction plate edge... and the ground is sinking, and it doesn't stop...

Well, what they taught me at culinary school is that there will be a slip, your land will rise back or buckle, and you will be overcooked toast.

Good luck California.

/johnny

7 posted on 06/22/2012 5:11:01 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I suppose that Kalifornica could be slipping into the sunset.
8 posted on 06/22/2012 5:16:17 PM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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"Sea levels along the California coast are expected to rise as much as 1 foot in 20 years, 2 feet by 2050 and as much as 5 1/2 feet by the end of the century, climbing slightly faster than the global average and increasing the risk of flooding and storm damage, a new study says. "

California is sinking under the weight of its gov't debt? Or illegal aliens? Or both?

9 posted on 06/22/2012 5:16:50 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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Just California. The Oregon and Washington beaches will be just spiffy.


10 posted on 06/22/2012 5:18:18 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
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so what? we are not going to be here after 12/21/2012, LOL


11 posted on 06/22/2012 5:19:52 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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I think we are getting our wish, and CA is slowly falling into the ocean.


12 posted on 06/22/2012 5:20:45 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: AU72

Water seeks it’s own level.


13 posted on 06/22/2012 5:20:54 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The ocean is not rising! California is sinking!!!


14 posted on 06/22/2012 5:20:54 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: freedumb2003
No, what will happen as in Colorado California will start charging for sunlight used, say for solar energy. You'd be stealing California's sun.

Colorado says that the rain is theirs and best not capture it in cisterns otherwise you'll be charged for stealing unless you pay a fee for the cisterns.

15 posted on 06/22/2012 5:21:10 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
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16 posted on 06/22/2012 5:23:08 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
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California is sinking!!!

Not fast enough. How can we speed it up?

17 posted on 06/22/2012 5:23:51 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“scientific reality”

That no longer exists, it was replaced with government grants.


18 posted on 06/22/2012 5:27:40 PM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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"Sea levels along the California coast are expected to rise as much as 1 foot in 20 years, 2 feet by 2050 and as much as 5 1/2 feet by the end of the century..."

Can we hurry it up? Make it rise further?
Let's all burn some tires.

19 posted on 06/22/2012 5:31:30 PM PDT by Edward Teach
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The article says the rise is 9 in not one foot. It also says for past 100 yrs it has risen 8 in. Much ado about nothing and one doesn’t even have to get into the cause for such a small increase.


20 posted on 06/22/2012 5:32:20 PM PDT by plain talk
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