Posted on 07/25/2014 7:29:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Here in southeastern Virginia, our biggest city, Norfolk, is saddled with an unwanted claim to fame. Norfolk is the place "where normal tides have risen 1.5 feet over the past century and the sea is rising faster than anywhere else on the East Coast."
NPR notes that the Norfolk area "is particularly vulnerable because the land is sinking as sea levels are rising."
As we frequently discuss here at 13.7, human-caused (anthropogenic) climate change is a global problem.
Surprisingly, at least to me, the evidence points to a narrative of universal blame, instead of one in which the "big countries" (as islanders call the industrialized nations) are called out.
After considering and dismissing a number of other explanations, Rudiak-Wanker concludes that the answer can be found in the Marshallese perspective on cultural decline, the idea that the local culture is deteriorating as people increasingly leave traditional practices behind in favor of foreign ways.
When we look hard at what's happening for each of us locally in terms of altered weather patterns or coastlines or patterns of flora and fauna, and share that information, the global picture starts to come together. The idea is not to play the blame game, but rather to focus on how various cultures and individuals process the frightening realities of a climate-change-suffused future, and to determine what can be done to alter the course we are on.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
BS gobbledegook
I can't go any further...
These people are so ignorant of basic science.
Put an ice cube in a glass of water. The water level does not rise after the ice cube melts. The ice displaces the same amount of water whether it is frozen or melted.
The American public are IDIOTS to believe ANY of this nonsense.
Yes, He is.
Besides warming, He deals tsunami’s, volcanos, CMEs (Carrington event), poll reversal and so on
Note the “NPR”.
This is Latin for “Doesn’t know sh*t about science.”
Apollo and his SUV chariot. Commuting across the sky every day without a carbon tax. Whaddya expect?
That is my answer too. He made the Earth, and its ever changing climate.
Those noble Third World islanders are blaming themselves but they really should be blaming the evil West!!!!
That's what these stories always come down to -- another chance to vent hatred of Capitalism and the West. I wonder if the dope who wrote this drives around in a car and turns her air conditioning on in the summer? Does she use electric lights?
I have to confess. It's my fault. And it hasn't actually changed. I stole it. Replaced it with a near replica that I'd been keeping in my freezer up in the barn. So, it smells a bit like a side of beef and some frozen chicken.
So, if you smell BS, it is bull but it isn't sh_t. It's chicken. Bull chicken. Frozen bull chicken, actually.
Yeah, climates always been in a state of flux. Why should anybody be blamed?
LOL.
It seems to be the case that while not all idiots have hyphenated names, all people who have hyphenated names are idiots.
And, if I had a last name like "Rudiak-Wanker", I'd change it.
The "scientists" that set up an exceedingly complex model using multiple variables that are constantly adjusted to justify their hypothesis, not their observations.
Then they and their apostles claim we are ignorant when we don't accepte this "settled" science.
Algore & the rest of the idiots that invented the hoax, who did you think?
Liberals are to blame. For their hypocrisy of not taking themselves out of the ecosystem to preserve mother earth!
‘Nother cold front next week - soon to be called “global cooling”!
Team effort:
AEOLUS (Aiolos) The king of the winds. He was appointed by Zeus to guard the storm winds which he kept locked away inside the floating island of Aeolia, releasing them at the request of the gods to wreak their havoc.
AETHER (Aither) The primeval god of the shining light of the blue sky. He was conceived of as the substance of light, a layer of bright mist which lay between the dome of heaven and the lower air which surrounded the earth.
ASTRAEUS (Astraios) The Titan god of the stars. He was father of the planets and the four seasonal winds by Eos the dawn.
ATLAS A Titan condemned by Zeus to hold the sky aloft upon his shoulders and turn it upon its axis. Homer in the Odyssey seems to suggest that he was released from this labour and appointed keeper of the pillars of heaven, presumably the ones erected by Heracles at the ends of the earth.
AURA The Titan goddess of the breeze.
AURAE (Aurai) The nymphs of the breezes.
BOREAS The god of the north wind whose wintry breath brought the cold of winter. He dwelt in a cave in the mountains of the far northern land of Thrace.
CHAOS (Khaos) The primeval goddess of the gap between heaven and earth. She was the air which men breathed. Below Chaos her lay the flat body of the earth, and above the shining mists of the protogenos Aether. Chaos was the mother of Darkness and Night and of the birds.
CHIONE (Khione) The goddess of snow. She was daughter a daughter of Boreas, god of the wintry north wind.
CHRONOS The old god of time who turned the wheel of the heavenly constellations. He was sometimes equated with Cronus, the father of Zeus.
CYCLOPES (Kyklopes) Three giant sons of Uranus (Heaven) who forged the lightning and thunder of Zeus. Their three brothers, the Hecatoncheires, were the gods of violent storms.
EOS The winged goddess of the dawn. She heralded the rising of the sun with her rosy brilliance.
EURUS (Euros) The god of the east wind and herald of the autumn season.
HECATONCHEIRES (Hekatonkheires) Three hundred-armed, fifty-headed giants. They were the gods of violent storms which they released from the gates of Tartarus.
HELIUS (Helios) The god of the sun whose orb was he wore upon his head as a bright aureole crown. Helios drove a fiery chariot drawn by four winged steeds.
HEMERA The primeval goddess of the day. In the early morn she scattered the mists of her mother Nyx (Lady Night), to reveal the shining light of Aether, the blue sky.
HERA The Queen of Heaven and goddess of the air and starry constellations. The Milky Way was spilt from her breast and most of the other constellations placed in the heavens at her command.
HERSE The goddess of the morning dew.
HESPERIDES The goddesses of sunsets. The three Hesperides tended the tree of the golden apples on Erythea, the Red Isle, in the western stream of the river Oceanus. The apples were a wedding present from Gaea to the sky-gods Zeus and Hera. They were the source of the golden light of sunset, created to celebrate the nuptials of the sky-gods.
HORAE (1) (Horai) Three goddesses of the seasons and the ordering of time named Eirene, Eunomia and Dike. They directed the constellations and guiding the Sun in his heavenly course.
NEPHELAE (Nephelai) The nymphs of the clouds. They were daughters of the earth-encircling, river Oceanus from whose waters they drew the rain.
NOTUS (Notos) The god of the wet and stormy south wind who heralded the month of summer.
OCEANIDES (Okeanides)The daughters of the earth-encircling river Oceanus. Some of these were nymphs of clouds (Nephelae) and moistening breezes (Aurae).
URANUS (Ouranos) The primeval god whose body formed the solid dome of heaven. The Greeks imagined him as a bronze-bodied, star-spangled god whose hands rested upon the earth in the farthest east and feet in the farthest west. He was similar in form to the Egyptian goddess Nut whose starry arching form is common in art. Uranus was a eunuch god, having been castrated by Cronus at the beginning of time.
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ZEUS The King of the Gods and the ruler of the heavens. He was the god of clouds, rain, thunder and lightning.
ZODIAC (Zodiakos) The spirits of the twelve constellations of the zodiac circled heaven measuring the seasons of the year.
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