Posted on 04/11/2017 6:15:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Not far from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, one expert after another warned Monday about the dangers that rising sea levels pose to Florida's coast.
Not that surprising, except this was a Senate committee field hearing challenging the position shared by President Donald Trump and many Republicans in Congress that climate change isn't real.
The site of the hearing -- just four miles from Trump's weekend getaway in Palm Beach -- was clearly intended to send a signal: Much of Florida's coastline could one day be underwater, including some of the President's own prized properties.
"Today we sit at ground zero of the impacts of climate change in the US," Florida Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson said. "And while there are still some who continue to deny climate change is real, South Florida offers proof that it is real and it's an issue we're going to be grappling with for decades to come."
The fact that Trump's own properties are vulnerable to the impact of climate change is paradoxical, given that the EPA is poised to undo President Barack Obama's plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.
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I will not give one bit of credence to global warming predictors until it’s adherents sell their nice coastal properties and move inland. They clearly don’t believe their own rhetoric.
Much obliged. I always think I should do a little glottal stop like saying Hawai’i.
Ciara Bri’d Frisbie: Fake Human.
Likely a shape shifting alien.
Laz?
You missed the point.
Kneel heretic! Kneel before the angry sky gods!
“And while there are still some who continue to deny climate change is real..”
When your argument is based on a lie, you lose.
Few deny that the earth’s climate changes. The dispute is about the “man made” climate change.
So this is fake news passing on propaganda for the left.
Wasn’t that “sea rise” prediction based on the ice caps melting? There’s been no serious report of that. They’re still there, teeming with those supposedly “extinct” polar bears.
Gee no concern about Al Gore’s seaside mansion on the California coast? If Trump’s estate is inundated so will Al Gore’s. I am certain if Hillary was president she would sit on the shore and command the sea to stop just like. King Canute.
I don't believe that President Trump denies climate change. In fact, I don't recall ever reading or hearing from anyone who denies climate change.
I didn't read the article because the title implies something that is not true, aka more fake CNN news.
What the majority of thinking people deny is that man's presence on earth directs the climate's direction.
To deny that the climate is changing is akin to denying continental drift and to further suggest that man can control the climate is akin to suggesting man can control the direction of tectonic plate movement.
The entire word is now and will always be a "victim" of climate change. It is inescapable. Even in death you will be the "recipient" or victim if you wish, of the forever changing climate.
Actually, I kinda did a very rough math estimate on the ice caps a while ago. Forget then numbers, but for the size of the oceans vs the size of the caps, and the fact that half of the ice caps’ ice is underwater (when it melts, this actually LOWERS the oceans), there’s no way, physically, that the oceans can rise several feet. Just not possible.
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