Global warming a threat to shores

hometownannapolis.com ^ | 02/25/07 | PAMELA WOOD

[ShawTaylor]

"The predicted effects of global warming in Maryland are scary"

And have been proved persistently wrong.

[boomop1]

They are coming for your wallet.

[rellimpank]

---Mr. Pinsky, a Prince George's Democrat, is sponsoring a bill that would require the state to cut its emissions of global warming-causing greenhouse gases back to 1990 levels by 2020.--

--this would be funny , if it wasn't so supremely stupid---

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

"Thirty years ago, people called global warming science fiction,"

Wrong, thirty years ago the fearmongers were still talking about a new Ice Age! Is the state senator that young that he can't remember, or is he just stupid?

[RetiredArmy]

The loss of Maryland does not scare me. Can you take New Jersey, New York, Taxsachuttus, RodeIsland, West Virginia, and Sodom on the Potomac with you?

[Fitzcarraldo]

They are coming for your wallet.

Basically, one tsunami or undersea landslide can wipe out huge swaths of coastline development in seconds.

We may spend $$$ trillions in global warming mitigation to save coastlines only to confounded by a singular unpredicted movement of the Earth's crust.

At least the predicted sea level rise caused by global warming will be a slow process, easily dealt with.

Ah, Venice.

[BlessedBeGod]

Global Warming Ping!

[HenpeckedCon]

Come on now Sir, if we lost all of those states, what would we have to bitch about, except maybe Kalifornia?

[RetiredArmy]

Sure, put them in also. Oregon, Washington state, several others come to mind. We can just have the beach closer to us than it is now. Will save GAS driving to the beach.

[capt. norm]

Wow! Is there any Kool-Aid left or did this writer drink it all?

[CindyDawg]

There is nothing to be done either way. Things happen...flooding, erosion etc. Build up you property if water starts to rise. It might end up as beach or lake front:') Insurance companies ought to offer a permanent flooding, global warming insurance. If it doesn't happen, they could make a lot of money..

[oh8eleven]

the Chesapeake Bay spilling over its shores, stronger storms and a shake-up of the species that can survive here.
Obviously written by a public school graduate. WTF does ... "a shake-up of the species that can survive here" mean? Unbelievable.

[HenpeckedCon]

Can you imagine beaches in Nevada? I say bring it on! What was yor MOS?

[hophead]

I feel just so, so, protected by my elected officials. They are just so important and powerful. They and their friends in the other state houses can actually legislate policy that will have an effect on my children's children's children. That through their wisdom and foresight, our shores will remain for centuries as they are now. No longer dredging sand from miles out to fill the beaches at Ocean City. No longer worried about my favorite camp spot on Assateague Island. It should be their for my great-great-great grandkids. Thank you elected officials. Thank you.

[Jhensy]

Like it or not, that sea level rise is a certainty in the Chesapeake Bay, Dr. Boesch said.

"I would think you'd better plan for it," he said. "You better count on it."

OK, Professor, willing to put your career and livelihood on the line? If this doesn't happen at all, that would make you a complete and utter fraud, and a dangerous one at that, wouldn't it? Are you willing to resign your position and leave your profession if there's no evidence of Chesapeake flooding -- even 1/2 an inch -- in 2 years, 5 years, 10 years...?

*crickets*

[steelyourfaith]

ping

[CindyDawg]

For the most part we have a history of being a reactive country. We deal with stuff when it happens. Why is that so hard for thinking heads to understand?

[hinckley buzzard]

...the state's land is sinking due to geologic forces.

They all seem to have rushed right on by this ineresting little fact.

[relictele]

These stories invariably sound like bedtime stories with all the fairy tale terms like 'scary.'

It doesn't even pretend to be science but the infantilism is never-ceasing with the MSM.