Posted on 10/25/2016 6:03:57 AM PDT by rktman
"Norfolk is at risk over the next few decades if we don't do something to slow down sea level rise," Navy Secretary Ray Mabus told a gathering in Washington, D.C., on Monday.
Naval Station Norfolk, the largest naval complex [1] in the world, is located in southeastern Virginia.
"All our bases are in some way or other at risk," Mabus said.
And that's not the only risk posed by climate change, Mabus said. The warming planet also expands the Navy's mission:
"We're the first responders. We're the ones -- the Navy and Marine Corps are the ones sent. We get a request for humanitarian assistance or disaster relief an average of once every two weeks. And as these storms get bigger, as sea levels rise, as instability follows, a lot of times, our responsibilities increase.
"As the Arctic begins to be ice-free, Russia's already said the waters to its north are an internal waterway. They're not. "Part of our responsibilities is keeping the sea lanes open, making sure that international law is followed, making sure that peaceful trade at sea can go where international law says it can.
"And so climate change and things like that are -- it's a risk in the future for things like Norfolk and our bases, but it's here today in terms of increasing our responsibility in terms of what we've got to respond to, in terms of how we have to position ourselves and how we have to think about our roles."
Mabus was speaking at the Center for a New American Security along with the secretaries of the Air Force and the Army.
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Twice a day. Of course it lowers twice a day too.
The Secretary of the Navy shouldn’t go around spouting religious nonsense.
so how much is the sea level at Norfolk documented as having risen over the past 100 years?
The complete idiot.
Mabus is a moron.
IQ is obviously not on the list of Dorkbama the Muslim requirements for his military secretaries. How long will our military (the least of whom is superior in every way to their civilian leaders) put up with this?
Prelude to moving naval operations out of Norfolk, that’s all.
Translation: I want to retire and go work for a defense contractor and make millions of dollars, so give those contractors 100’s of billions of dollars now to prepare for some phoney baloney scam.
Lock him up, terminal stupidity.
How embarrassing for the Navy. No wonder the Iranians are kicking their ass.
Amazing BS. He’s smoking his own dope.
Even if true (and I don’t believe it is) wouldn’t be cheaper to move the Naval Base then to try to control the earth’s temperature?
There are not many that do NOT believe earth’s climate changes. What most of us do not believe is that it is MAN MADE climate change.
The year 1816 is called “the year without a summer”
“Evidence suggests that the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter event caused by the massive 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies, the largest eruption in at least 1,300 years after the extreme weather events of 535–536. The Earth had already been in a centuries-long period of global cooling that started in the 14th century. Known today as the Little Ice Age, it had already caused considerable agricultural distress in Europe. The Little Ice Age’s existing cooling was aggravated by the eruption of Tambora, which occurred during its concluding decades.[4]” Wikipedia
Somehow humans survived this disaster.
The question, is there anything man could do that would duplicate what this one volcano did?
Attempts to force Americans to reduce their standards of living on some false premise is evil. I believe those that push this also know it is a false premise, so the next question is what is their real goal?
If we had an honest media these frauds would be exposed but unfortunately for us, the media is in on the fraud.
This is very sad.
The rising sea levels will envelope the First Landing State Park at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay destroying the swamp and the live oak trees and thus the northern most habitat of Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides)
“”Norfolk is at risk over the next few decades if we don’t do something to slow down sea level rise,””
MAROON!
There is NOTHING we can do. (even IF it were true, which it isn’t)
Maybe we could install that VERY BIG sun valve so we can turn down the sun?
Maybe we could install that VERY BIG CO2 filter? (where would we put it?)
Maybe we could build a VERY BIG shop vac, suck up all the extra CO2 and then blow it all into space, say out by uranus.
Haha...thank you for first days laugh!!
hradly —> hardly
sigh...
And your primary mission is to speak about the rising sea levels.
And you are being assigned Congressman Hank Johnson to lead your Communications Team ....
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