Posted on 12/26/2007 5:36:29 PM PST by melt
Say what you will about the looming catastrophe facing the world as the pace of global heating and polar melting accelerates. There is a silver lining.
Look at a map of the US.
The area that will by completely inundated by the rising ocean—and not in a century but in the lifetime of my two cats—are the American southeast, including the most populated area of Texas, almost all of Florida, most of Louisiana, and half of Alabama and Mississippi, as well as goodly portions of eastern Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. While the northeast will also see some coastal flooding, its geography is such that that aside from a few projecting sandbars like Long Island and Cape Cod, the land rises fairly quickly to well above sea level. Sure, Boston, New York and Philadelphia will be threatened, but these are geographically confined areas that could lend themselves to protection by Dutch-style dikes. The West Coast too tends to rise rapidly to well above sea level in most places. Only down in Southern California towards the San Diego area is the ground closer to sea level.
So what we see is that huge swaths of conservative America are set to face a biblical deluge in a few more presidential cycles.
Then there’s the matter of the Midwest, which climate experts say is likely to face a permanent condition of unprecedented drought, making the place largely unlivable, and certainly unfarmable. The agribusinesses and conservative farmers that have been growing corn and wheat may be able to stretch out this doomsday scenario by deep well drilling, but west of the Mississippi, the vast Ogallala Aquifer that has allowed for such irrigation is already being tapped out. It will not be replaced.
So again, we will see the decline and depopulation...
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimorechronicle.com ...
He is delusional. There is zero evidence to support such a theory. Not even a single centimeter.
After all, they SAID they wanted a revolution. It might not be very groovy, though, huh. Far out, man.
It’s amazing how many people are peddling this idiocy. Professional catastrophists used to get laughed at. Now, the media can’t get enough of them.
We still have most of the guns.
These are the same fools that think that animals are not smart enough to find new food and shelter. As if people in these places would just stand there, submerge in water. What do they think, that everyone is as dumb as liberal idiots in New Orleans?
Yet another totalitarian and would-be mass murderer emerges from the “green” movement. It is appalling that such nonsense should be printed in a so-called mainstream newspaper. This smelly old **** will be long gone before any of his inane prophecies are proven false, so he can yammer with impunity.
We’re on the same wavelength. : )
True, but in a really perverse scenario it would be interesting to see millions of displaced conservatives take over previously lib strongholds and turn them into red-state type enclaves. Mandatory gun ownership, Christmas displays on public buildings, pink flamingoes on front lawns... the possibilities are intriguing.
He doesn't think too highly of himself, does he....
...when they begin their historic migration from their doomed regions, we not give them the keys to the city.
Why in the world would any SANE (read "non-liberal") person want the keys to what they left in the first place?
Keep the slums (I have a better word, but I fear posting it here....) you call "cities" for yourselves. WE don't want them....
They certainly should be offered assistance in their time of need...
...lest we be called heartless or uncompassionate...
but we need to keep a firm grip on our political systems...
...like commies, nazis, and other political systems that have proved us to be wrong for centuries, but we still think WE can make them work....
What a TOOL!
The frightening thing is he may be a college prof....(he got the look)
Notice the anti American scumbag’s slogan could be : If you can’t beat’em drown’em!
And I thought I was going to read something that was going to change my mind, what a disappointment! Sigh, I guess I will have to continue living my days as a skeptic, at least until something far more convincing comes along.
It's amazing... these global warming supporters warn mankind that if we don't do something to cub emmissions of carbon gases, many will die, but now they are starting to say, that's ok as long as its those people we don't like.
Love that double standard.
Another member of the “political party of tolerance”. As much of a misnomer as Dubya’s declaration that Islam is a “religion of peace”!
If stupid ever gets to $100 a barrel, I want the drilling rights to this guy’s head.
OK, “lifetime of my two cats” His point of reference alone just cracks me up! What a tool. He could have said “lifetime of my two dogs”, or “during the seven year depreciation of my vehicle’s” or a lot of other more masculine things. But no, for this loony, it’s just crazy David and his cats.
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