Sinking Nations Are Pursuing Legal Options To Stave Off Destruction

forbes.com ^ | March 12, 2012 | Michael Bobelian

[FlingWingFlyer]

Since too much water seems to the be problem that these environloonies are having, the UN could stop this problem immediately by requiring everyone on the planet to drink 5 glasses of water per day.

[Twotone]

These guys need to keep up on the news:

http://iceagenow.info/2011/08/sea-levels-dropped-2010/

[Freddd]

‘As global temperatures rise, so will sea levels from three to six feet by the end of the century according to the Columbia University Earth Institute.’-——

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Yeah and Al Gore said their wouldn’t be any ice left in Alaska by this year.

There’s more than EVER.

[utherdoul]

its always a few decades. When I was in school (in the 90s) in “a few decades” we’ll run out of oil, we’ll run out of metal, the ozone layer will be gone, the oceans will be lifeless, we’ll have to wear breathing masks at home. Why people can’t see through it I’ll never understand.

[count-your-change]

No worries! The Doomsday astronomers say a comet or something big and ugly will hit the earth or maybe a super volcano or something. And if not the sun will eat the earth or Creeping Crud will crawl out of a meteor.

So who’s worried about a little high tide?

[ctdonath2]

Oh, but the ocean WILL rise - by several feet, and within the next 12 hours!

[RedhairRedhair]

atmospheric CO2 levels are today among the lowest in the last 545 million years

[Cicero]

That’s OK. Hussein will send them a few trillion dollars, and they can jack the island up a yard or two.

[Nip]

I am still wait for icebergs i the Gulf of Mexico as I was promised by the climate experts in 1970.

I am supposed to take their claims of a 3 to 6 foot sea rise in the next 90 odd years on faith?

Well, their first expert claims have been proven false. So why should I place any validity in their next set of claims?

P.S. Check the various science magazines going back almost 100 years to get a more complete understanding of the number of climate change predictions that have been made and the number proven false. And then ask, why should I buy the newest bottle of snake oil?

[kik5150]

The sea level is not rising. Islands such as those, formed by now extinct volcanos, are sinking.

[Qout]

Speaking of cash, how much has the resale value of this soon-to-be worthless land crashed? Are they willing to trade it acre-for-acre for land away from the coast somewhere?

[katana]

Funny thing about melting ice and one of the more interesting characteristics of the dreaded Dihydrogen Monoxide. It has a higher volume when frozen than in its liquid state. Therefore, as it melts the level of the resulting liquid in a container (like the ocean) decreases. There was a time when every kid who ever watched Mr. Wizard on television, took science at a fourth grade level, or made the mistake of leaving a glass bottle of Coke in the freezer knew this. The utter brazen ignorance of these people would be hilarious were it not for the fact that some of them hold political power and an even more stupid and ignorant populous believes everything they say.

[dagogo redux]

What losers. They came there by boat, it didn’t work out long term, they can leave by boat. If that’s not good enough, they can mail themselves somewhere.

[bt_dooftlook]

Highly recommend Nils-Axel Mörner’s article dispelling this nonsense:

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2011/Winter-2010/Morner.pdf

Please read it to familiarize yourself with the various proposed sea-level increase drivers and Morner’s research.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Free ThinkerNY for the topic, and thanks to the FReeper to remain nameless for the link. :’)

[Mad Dawgg]

"But this story about a six or seven foot general rise in sea levels is nothing but malarky meant to scare the gullible."

Actually such could easily happen and in a matter of minutes but it would have nothing to do with Global Warming and everything to do with "Plate Tectonics"

[John Valentine]

"But this story about a six or seven foot general rise in sea levels is nothing but malarky meant to scare the gullible." Actually such could easily happen and in a matter of minutes but it would have nothing to do with Global Warming and everything to do with "Plate Tectonics"

I'm not sure what you are getting at here, but there is NOTHING that can cause a net global rise in sea level except a massive addition of water.

I suspect you are talking about a localized land subsidence.

[3rdcoastislander]

I used to live near the beach on the Gulf Coast in the late 90’s through 2002. Wackos then were running around like chickens with their heads cut off screaming that their houses would be underwater by 2010. I have friends that have a house on a canal built in 1986, the water has come up into their yard once....during a hurricane.

[Mad Dawgg]

"I'm not sure what you are getting at here, but there is NOTHING that can cause a net global rise in sea level except a massive addition of water."

Well being these folks are using shorelines as their measuring points yes after a great cataclysmic shift those points could be moved several feet. Such has happened in the past according to geologists. And being such has happened in the past this tells us without a doubt it can happen in the future.

[John Valentine]

Yes, the land can rise or sink, but the water level stays the same.