Posted on 08/22/2016 4:16:12 PM PDT by PROCON
After a century of shooing away hunters, tending to trails and helping visitors enjoy the wonder of the natural world, the guardians of America’s most treasured places have been handed an almost unimaginable new job – slowing the all-out assault climate change is waging against national parks across the nation.
As the National Parks Service (NPS) has charted the loss of glaciers, sea level rise and increase in wildfires spurred by rising temperatures in recent years, the scale of the threat to US heritage across the 412 national parks and monuments has become starkly apparent.
As the National Parks Service turns 100 this week, their efforts to chart and stem the threat to the country’s history faces a daunting task. America’s grand symbols and painstakingly preserved archaeological sites are at risk of being winnowed away by the crashing waves, wildfires and erosion triggered by warming temperatures.
The Statue of Liberty is at “high exposure” risk from increasingly punishing storms. A national monument dedicated to abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who will be enshrined on a new $20 note, could be eaten away by rising tides in Maryland. The land once walked by Pocahontas and Captain John Smith in Jamestown, the first English settlement in the US, is surrounded by waters rising at twice the global average and may be beyond rescue.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
From the article:
Climate change is set to alter American forests as much as the arrival of white settlers did.
*Major Facepalm*
We’re all gonna die!
Aaaaaahhh!
Let me know when the English misanthrope wants to go back to living with a loincloth in a cave in York
Total BS........
Oh for the love of God....
Dear Guardian writers, try science.
Oh forgot, it is hard.
Especially hard for silly newspaper writers.
white settler? I didn’t know dogs had that much pull! :)
WHITEY DID IT!!!!
dam CRACKAS
Will global warming erode away the new national monument at Stonewall in Manhattan?? What protective measures will they take to protect that national treasure?
wAKE UP! TIME TO DIEEEEEEEEE
—W Axl Rose
Well yeah. It's gonna be hard to enjoy many of those national parks when they are covered up by a mile of Ice.
Stick a finger in the dyke ?
My exact thoughts.
This should be the universal response to any and every Climate Change story or claim.
All right, that's enough! Keep Hillary out of this!
These people are getting more and more hysterical.
***As the National Parks Service (NPS) has charted the loss of glaciers,***
Back in 1942, MGM produced a short TRAVELTALKS on Glacier and Waterton National Parks. It was mentioned that the glaciers have been receding since the last ice age and ...”If there is no climatic change, they will be gone in a thousand years.”
So, the glaciers have been receding for 12,000 years!
Hmm, that is when man came on the scene!
Maybe we need to give out Hooked on Phonics games to Federal Employees??
Make the most of this summer because it could be your last decent one: winter is coming as the planet enters the most devastating cooling period since the 65-year Maunder Minimum of the 17th and early 18th centuries.
‘Winter Is Coming’ Warns The Solar Physicist The Alarmists Tried To Silence
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3458869/posts
It’s the end of the world.
Unmitigated Bovine Excrement!!
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