Posted on 08/31/2015 7:23:56 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
GAINESVILLE — Florida and Alaska are about as far apart as two states can be from be from each other physically, geographically and climate-wise.
But U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D- Fla., on Monday said he’s witnessed the devastating effects global warming is already having on both states.
“I walked to the edge of the glacier and saw that it’s really melting,” Nelson said of his mid-August visit to a US Coast Guard base in Kodiak, Alaska.
He also recalled how Alton Road in Miami Beach was flooded during high tide before million-dollar pumps were installed.
Nelson visited University of Florida Monday to talk with geology professor Andrea Dutton about her groundbreaking climate change research and how it can be used to persuade climate change doubters to support and enact policies to reverse the effects and lessen the impact.
Gainesville City Commissioner Helen Warren said she was concerned that there is not enough discussion about the regional impact climate change could have on agriculture and water quality.
She also observed that people from the Tampa Bay area and South Florida are already migrating inland to get away from chronic flooding and saltwater intrusion. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at ocala.com ...
When did this ‘RAT dumbass become a scientist?
Glaciers typically have torrents of water at their terminus....pressure and warmer temperatures. What an incredible maroon!
Good thing they melt. Who wants to live on a frozen planet?
Science itself remains science, but global warming or climate change “science” is basically mumbo-jumbo. I was told by a student (not seeking a career in climate science, just taking a course in it as part of another almost unrelated field) that Greenland was “disappearing” — I assumed he meant that the ice cap on Greenland was disappearing, not that the rocky island under the ice (which will still be there even if all that ice melts, as much of it is two miles above sea level, the ice on top is maybe half a mile of icing). So I asked him just out of interest what percentage of the ice he thought had already disappeared (the correct answer is something like 1%). He said “lots, maybe a quarter.” So evidently, there is almost no fact-based education going on, this kid is smart enough to remember factoids like this. When I said I thought it was only 1 or 2 per cent, he looked very puzzled, as in, I didn’t know you were one of “them.”
Then try the percentage in Antarctica with any random believer in climate change. Once again, same situation if not even smaller, a very small fraction has been lost, sea ice has actually increased in recent decades. These are not the impressions most young people and leftists in general have. They think there is some crisis well underway.
As to receding glaciers in the Rockies and Cascades, Coast Ranges etc (this includes Alaska) the percentages since maybe 1880 are more significant, 20-40 per cent. But so what? A shift in the natural climate could quickly reverse those trends. All it really means is a longer hike to the base of the glacier. For all this, we are going to monkey around with the global economy and all ride bicycles to and from our urban vegetable gardens? It’s just a hysterical over-reaction to what amounts to a non-event.
I live in the Tampa Bay area ... my backyard ends at a saltwater stream... it's been at the same level (high and low tides) for the many years I've been here...
Is it me, or does Nelson look vaguely animatronic when he speaks?
That’s raciss!
Next ICE AGE will kill far far more human beings than any global warming would. If we burn fossil fuels at an accelerated rate, we can save lot of lives!
Thass raciss!
Exactly. 20,000 years ago the ice on the Great Lakes was 1 mile thick. 20,000 years from now the ice on the Great Lakes will be 1 mile thick. We need to figure out how to survive it.
HERETIC! BURN THE HERETIC!
Don’t you know that Florida never flooded before the white man? The world was a paradise of dancing gators and friendly panthers capering with the native peoples who lived in perfect harmony with their mother earth. Filled with an overabundance of natural resources, there was no war, no disease; in fact, no natives actually died before the white man’s invasion!
The white man brought disease, violence and death to destroy the native peoples and immediately began to change the weather to drown their peaceful villages. The sun burned hotter because the white skin reflected the sunlight, and the swamps teemed with poisonous reptiles that spontaneously evolved from the corrupted earth. The innocent natives had no chance, so they built casinos to stave off the depredations, but alas, it was too late. The casinos were no match for the climate change and the natives drank themselves in to oblivion.
Let me guess...
“Florida...and it’s summertime...gimme a minute Alex...I’d like to answer this...”
“What is hot as hell?”
Well, winter is around the corner and soon we’ll hear about global cooling - more climate change. Seems to happen every year...
As one of Florida's senators Nelson was invited to go on a Space Shuttle Columbia mission in 1986. He had to go through a regimen of physical which revealed some minor problems. One of them was “chronic flatulence.” The press had fun with that one for a few years.
Perhaps the biggest argument against global warming and rising sea levels is that there still is a florida
The really sad thing about this article is that students will willingly accept his statements as a truth. Colleges are now a weapon of indoctrination rather than an institution teaching students to question what they see and hear and perform their own research.
I have always wondered if beach erosion is all rising seas, or if it is caused by the constant force of waves beating on the beach 24/7 and moving sand onto the south. Around NC it never reverses, it all goes south, always.
Why the GOP leaders do not educate people about violent climate change history of earth, is beyond me. GOPe needs to go into retirement.
And what used to be called normal beach erosion is now called climate change disaster.
I agree.
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