Posted on 05/18/2014 11:50:50 AM PDT by QT3.14
Miami will likely be underwater before the Senate can muster enough votes to meaningfully confront climate change. And probably Tampa and Charleston, too—two other cities that last week's National Climate Assessment placed at maximum risk from rising sea levels.
Even as studies proliferate on the dangers of a changing climate, the issue's underlying politics virtually ensure that Congress will remain paralyzed over it indefinitely. That means the U.S. response for the foreseeable future is likely to come through executive-branch actions, such as the regulations on carbon emissions from power plants that the Environmental Protection Agency is due to propose next month. And that means climate change will likely spike as a point of conflict in the 2016 presidential race.
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Hey, that's deja vu all over again. Yogi Berra.
The death, disaster and doomsday folks have been saying the very same thing about the West Coast for DECADES. And is THAT is true, then NO MORE HAWAII. Sniff. THAT would be a shame.
I guess it's Florida's turn to feel the blather-heat.
Glad you asked.
Climate Change (aka Global Warming) is all about getting legislation in place to mandate carbon credit trading (aka "Cap and Trade"). This is a scheme in which the traders in carbon credits (Al Gore established his Carbon Credit trading firm in London years ago) get very, very rich by buying and selling excess carbon credits. The government issues all businesses carbon credits, and if you need more, or have unused credits, you go to the exchange (for a fee).
A side benefit of course is more regulation and government control of the entire energy sector. This will cause even more power (and wealth) to shift to the governing class.
I’d be curious if that figure included all contributions, particularly evaporation – if you leave an open pan of water exposed to air just about anywhere, you’d note that the level likely drops more than 1/32nd of an inch.
Given the average density of ice, the contribution from melting would have to be 2 to 3 times the depth of the water rise: e.g. for a 1-ft rise globally, the equivalent of an ice sheet a yard thick covering ALL the waters on Earth would have to all melt (and remain liquid). Normal, daily tidal variations create much more of an issue than this ever would…
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Not San Francisco please. I have Giants tickets!
Besides, you would be destroying Fort Funston, the hang gliders and the doggie/dog walkers' paradise.
Go ahead, google it and you'll see. It's TOO beautiful to destroy!
And the lies get bigger and bigger.
This article could become the poster child for demonstrating what happens when political activists hijack science. Ron Brownstein knows nothing at all about climate science, so he relies on political propagands to declare that the President must defy Congress and act on his own to destroy our economy on grounds that otherwise all those celebrity mansions over on South Beach will have soggy carpets.
They have foisted fabricated, distorted, and inconclusive data on us and demonized anyone who dare challenge the scientific validity of their doomsday predictions. The feeding frenzy that is government climate research funding has brought together climatologists, geologists, biologists, psychologists, mood counselors, and astrologists who can be depending upon to produce an increasing volume of grist for the mill. All of it is crap because the underpinning is not an observation of what the climate is actually doing, but rather projections based on climate computer models that have been shown to be faulty on numerous level.
This as a massive political scam and is the greatest mass hysteria event since the Salem Witch Trials. Brownstein is simply an idiot. Obama, on the other hand, is an evil, powerful idiot and apparently intends to keep doing stupid things like this even after his approval ratings hit negative numbers.
Three Questions for Liberals
Where is the proof that environmental legislation in the US will impact global climate?
Does it matter if the US President lies to the US public about the dead of US citizens high ranking government officials?
If some conservatives have been targeted by multiple federal agencies, how does that occur without a high level conspiracy?
Are these global warming alarms targeting certain voting groups?
Next, people are evacuating ocean-front San Diego because of global warming-caused (ahem) wildfires.
FR: Governor Jerry Brown: San Diego Wildfires Due to Global Warming
So why doesn't Gov. Brown work with San Diego to take advantage of the rising ocean caused by global warming by desalinating some sea water and use it to green up the parched areas caused by global warming?
Oh, FFS.
Just checked the atlas.
We are at roughly the same distance from the Sea.
So....yacht or motor cruiser, decisions decisions. :)
excuse me, 3/32nd of an inch.
I will believe in “climate change” when:
1) Al Gore parks his private jet, sells his palatial homes and condos, moves into a one room cabin built by his own hands of sustainable logs, uses only solar power for his home’s electricity, and only uses a bicycle or walking for his transportation needs.
2) Barack Obama walks and carries his clubs each time he golfs.
3) Barack Obama announces he will no longer fire up Air Force 1 to travel to fundraising events and will instead give his speeches at fundraisers via Skype.
4) Barack and Michelle announce they are forsaking future vacations at expensive high carbon footprint homes of the 1% and will instead go to a nearby national park or forest, sleep in a tent, and prepare all of their own meals from food grown in Michelle’s White House garden.
5) When every climate change advocating scientist, as well as every Hollywood leftist actor, stops using petroleum powered vehicles at any time and supplies their home’s energy needs with only wind and solar energy.
6) When someone can explain to me how the planet can absorb the impact of a single volcano that generates more carbon gas than all human activity combined but can’t absorb the impact of human life.
We have done the yacht thing and we are pretty old now, I think we will just find us a nice hill.
Where are you BTW?
More like 1/8 of an inch, but even so.....
I like Mark Steyn's name too: Clime Syndicate.
Just south of Oxford.
By a large bend in the river.
The real problem is having more NYC types moving here and capsizing the state.
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