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These swaths of San Francisco will be underwater in just 70 years, models suggest
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | February 7, 2019 | by Michelle Robertson

Posted on 02/07/2019 1:30:30 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We were told this was going to happen by 2000.


121 posted on 02/07/2019 3:36:02 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
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To: PreciousLiberty

If a gigantic tectonic event like the Quake of 1906 could not spell the end of San Francisco, a little thing like “climate change” won’t make much difference.

Sea levels are not going to rise by anything like the “predictions” have claimed.


122 posted on 02/07/2019 3:58:09 PM PST by alloysteel (History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why do we have to wait so long?


123 posted on 02/07/2019 4:10:08 PM PST by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: faithhopecharity

Are you talking about the poop on the sidewalks? Or the Sodomites of the Castro district?


124 posted on 02/07/2019 4:17:08 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (It's Ok to be white.)
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To: outofsalt

Not Guilty!


125 posted on 02/07/2019 4:17:43 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (It's Ok to be white.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

all of the above, including especially the politicians there (who fit both of your categories)


126 posted on 02/07/2019 4:20:55 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians arent born, they’re excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Fido969

Get those girls a couple of happy meals. I’ve seen death camp survivors with more meat on them than these three.


127 posted on 02/07/2019 4:21:07 PM PST by redangus
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To: Fido969

They could use a sammich or two.


128 posted on 02/07/2019 4:24:25 PM PST by wally_bert (You're bringing The Monk down, man!)
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To: x

Submersibles built by the Ford Motor Company.

Spear guns instead of 38s.

I’d like the Pat Williams tunes remastered and used again though.


129 posted on 02/07/2019 4:28:46 PM PST by wally_bert (You're bringing The Monk down, man!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The models damn well better suggest inundation or they’ll stop using them...


130 posted on 02/07/2019 4:41:36 PM PST by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These morons can’t even predict the weather correctly 70 hours from now, much less 70 years from now.


131 posted on 02/07/2019 4:50:16 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (President Trump is right! The media IS the enemy of the people!)
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To: bert

We better put a wall around 3 sides of it before then so they don’t get out when it floods.


132 posted on 02/07/2019 4:54:32 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Couldcouldcould
Mightmightmight
Maybemaybemaybe
Bsbsbs


133 posted on 02/07/2019 5:01:23 PM PST by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The econazis will be up in arms, they are polluting the pacific


134 posted on 02/07/2019 5:11:58 PM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: PreciousLiberty
“models suggest”
Meaning “this is a wild a$$ guess as to what will actually happen, but we hope you’re terrified”.

Yep. Models created by the same people whose models have always been laughably wrong in the past. I won't be around in 70 years to see this one disproven.

135 posted on 02/07/2019 5:16:49 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Salten Sea was created by flooding with ocean water. Dig a trench around San Francisco, below sea level. Flood the area.

Add boat docks.


136 posted on 02/07/2019 5:31:19 PM PST by TheNext (Participation Award Winner = CoC)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Thousand of Californians will drown!
(Because they're not smart enough to move their tail feathers to safety over the next 70 years.)

137 posted on 02/07/2019 5:34:51 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: TheNext

Over millions of years, the Colorado River has flowed into the Imperial Valley and deposited soil (creating fertile farmland), building up the terrain and constantly changing the course of the river.

For thousands of years, the river has alternately flowed into and out of the valley, alternately creating a freshwater lake, an increasingly saline lake, and a dry desert basin, depending on river flows and the balance between inflow and evaporative loss.

The cycle of filling has been about every 400–500 years and has repeated many times. The latest natural cycle occurred around 1600–1700 as remembered by Native Americans who talked with the first European settlers. Fish traps still exist at many locations, and the Native Americans evidently moved the traps depending upon the cycle.

The most recent inflow of water from the now heavily controlled Colorado River was accidentally created by the engineers of the California Development Company in 1905. In an effort to increase water flow into the area for farming, irrigation canals were dug from the Colorado River into the valley. The canals suffered silt buildup, so a cut was made in the bank of the Colorado River to further increase the water flow.

The resulting outflow overwhelmed the engineered canal, and the river flowed into the Salton Basin for two years, filling the historic dry lake bed and creating the modern sea, before repairs were completed.[2]


138 posted on 02/07/2019 5:36:09 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: morphing libertarian

wiki

Further reading[edit]
Goodyear, Dana (May 4, 2015). “The dying sea: what will California sacrifice to survive the drought?”. Letter from the Imperial Valley. The New Yorker. 91 (11): 22–27. Retrieved 2015-06-29.
Greenfield S (Winter 2006). “A Lake by Mistake”. Invention & Technology. 21 (3). Archived from the original on September 6, 2008.
Setmire, James G., et al. (1993). Detailed study of water quality, bottom sediment, and biota associated with irrigation drainage in the Salton Sea area, California, 1988–90 [Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4014]. Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
Setmire, James G., Wolfe, John C., and Stroud, Richard K. (1990). Reconnaissance investigation of water quality, bottom sediment, and biota associated with irrigation drainage in the Salton Sea area, California, 1986–87 [Water-Resources Investigations Report 89-4102]. Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
Sperry RL (Winter 1975). “When the Imperial Valley Fought for its Life”. Journal of San Diego History. 21 (1).
GoogleBooks.com: The Salton Sea: An account of Harriman’s fight with the Colorado River
deBuys, William and Myers, Joan (1999), “Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-down California”, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, ISBN 0-8263-2126-7
Metzler, Chris and Springer, Jeff (2006). Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea, Tilapia Film – history of the Salton Sea, and interviews with residents and naturalists
Stevens, Joseph E. Hoover Dam. University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. details on the Salton Sea disaster
Stringfellow, Kim Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905–2005. Columbia College Chicago Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1-935195-32-0


139 posted on 02/07/2019 5:37:27 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who could trust a “reporter” who doesn’t know the difference between “purposely” and “purposefully?”


140 posted on 02/07/2019 5:41:15 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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