Posted on 07/24/2014 10:15:40 AM PDT by lbryce
Here in southeastern Virginia, our biggest city, Norfolk, is saddled with an unwanted claim to fame. As The Washington Post has reported, Norfolk is the place "where normal tides have risen 1.5 feet over the past century and the sea is rising faster than anywhere else on the East Coast."
NPR notes that the Norfolk area "is particularly vulnerable because the land is sinking as sea levels are rising."
Scientists from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science here at the College of William and Mary predict, according to the Post article, that "if current trends hold, by the end of this century, the sea in Norfolk would rise by 5.5 feet or more."
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
With todays morals where will you find enough virgins to satisfie the gods..LOL!!!and remember the Muslims and all their virgins..
Translation:
“Let’s destroy civilization and enslave the world’s population to government so that Virginia beachfront property doesn’t have slightly more water hundred years from now.”
Why does it seem like liberals, who most believe in human evolution, deny that a planet can evolve?
Algore started the entire warming of the globe with his false data
Comics conventions. It's a harsh solution, but the planet is at stake.
“Who Is Most To Blame For Climate Change?”
I don’t know who is, but if we don’t tax the s*it out of us, we will NEVER REVERSE IT!!!!
“Blame it on the Bolide”
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/epubs/bolide/ground_subsidence.html
“This continued subsidence also may play a role in the high rate of relative sea-level rise that is well-documented for the Chesapeake Bay region.”
White guys with all their liberty seeking.
Manbearpig did it!
Not even. It was a dendrochronologist with a computer.
LOL!
Heat Miser?
Well, it's different now, what-with all the evil factories, power plants and SUVs pumping all that nasty CO2 and stuff into the air.
Just like Obamacare - it’s a problem that could be solved without more government control over our lives,
but, then, there wouldn’t be more government control over our lives, which is what is needed to solve the problem... :)
Impeach the true culprit: Mother Nature.
Mother Nature.
Maybe I don’t know the reason, but I have a solution:
You may be right about that. I know Bob. Never really trusted him.
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