Paul Ryan, the Perfect Anti-Gore
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Posted on 08/21/2012 12:23:14 PM PDT by mbarker12474
Note the existence of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation.
IEN - University of Virginia ien.arch.virginia.edu/
Let them and Governor McDonnell know how delighted you are that the IEN is sucking up Virginia public dollars, for their important work not only on sea-level mitigation efforts (!!!) but also on the fashionalbe issues of "racial reconciliation" and "environmental justice."
Since 1980, the Institute for Environmental Negotiation has worked throughout Virginia to mediate natural and man-made environmental issues, such as remediating coal mines, revitalizing tobacco farms and mitigating sea-level changes. For more on its Community Resilience in Coastal Virginia initiative, including the new focus group reports, visit its website.How much mitigation has been done over the past 30+ years? What exactly have they done to mitigate it? How much has the sea level risen?
If they're talking about a two to five foot rise over the next hundred years, they must have been doing something about the rise that's occurred during the previous thirty years.
Damn good question!
I always find it iteresting that universities publish this “stuff” online with no opportunity for an online reesponse....
I thought when Baraq took office, all this stuff stopped happening.....???
I live in coastal Virginia and I can tell you with 100% certainty the sal level has not changed in 35 years. Now the city of Norfolk was built on a swamp and the land itself is sinking in relation to the sea level, but the sea level has not moved,
“I live in coastal Virginia and I can tell you with 100% certainty the sal level has not changed in 35 years...”
That’s no way to start another successful taxpayer scam!!!
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The Eastern Shore is subsiding...look at it through Google Earth or a map....
Well, I consider them morons brainwashed by other morons.
Thanks for the ping, randita.
I’ll insert a personal note germane to the topic.
I fear for the rare Spanish Moss growing in First Landing State Park in trees that are barely above sea level. In 1997 I made a survey and determined that the northern most habitat for Spanish Moss, the bromeliad Tillandsia usneoides, was in First landing State Park. The northern most growth of this ubiquitous plant is a few hundred yards from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
Any appreciable rise in sea level will kill the deciduous trees in which the most successful plant in existence resides. Success is measured by range that extends from Virginia continuous to southern Argentina, the longest range of any plant species. A rise in sea level will likely move the northern most point southward all the way to South Carolina.
The specimens I collected reside in the Smithsonian.
I was at the beach, and built a sand castle. Then the sea rose 5 feet, and wiped it out.
If only these people had been there, they could have formed a human shield and protected my castle.
None. The MEASUREMENTS of sea levels show zero rise. The hysteria is all about model-based predictions of "expected" increases due to "expected" warming.....also completely based on math models. MEASUREMENTS of global temperature reveal NO increase in temperatures over the last 15 years (temps "had" been rising prior to that time). This departure from "modeled" behavior is one of the "dirty little secrets" of the warmists.
Paul Ryan, the Perfect Anti-Gore
Global Warming on Free Republic
This is the same outfit that refuses to release the Michael Mann research data. Why should anyone believe them?
Thanks for the ping....the propaganda continues.
Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud
Sea levels began to rise 18k years ago at the end of the last glacial period. They have risen about 135 meters since then which is an average of 7.5 millimeters per year. That is an average of 750 mm per century (29.5 inches) which is far more than the average over the last century.
From 1880 to 2000 sea level rose about 20 cm or just under 8 inches. Far far less than the nearly 30 inches per century average over the last 18,000 years.
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