Posted on 05/22/2015 12:22:59 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
It's Memorial Day, and the forecast is for renewed mocking and derision regarding man-made climate change from the know-nothing, science-averse wing of the Republican Party. President Barack Obama's warning—issued during his commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduation ceremonies Wednesday—that climate change represents a national security threat seems certain to provoke that kind of stormy reaction.
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Among the Republicans running for president, climate change denial is the current mode of thinking for most....it's hard to see anyone in the crowd calling for military preparedness. Mostly, the candidates appear interested in sidestepping the topic (albeit in a disapproving manner)..
The result is not so much an attack on climate change science as an attack on any policy that would seem to address the problem. Is there such a thing as a conservative approach to global warming? If so, we haven't heard it outlined by an actual candidate—although New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie would seem the ideal mean for the job as he actually believes climate change to be real and that "human activity contributes to it,".....
Perhaps what Senator Cruz and others should do is simply visit the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis where faculty have been looking into how much damage climate change will have on coastal facilities around the Chesapeake Bay and what are the most cost-effective strategies to deal with it. That might teach them why the Navy and the other branches of the military can't afford to be climate deniers anxious to appease special interests or play to certain voters: They have a country to defend. As Mr. Obama observed, "climate change impacts every country on the planet." It's no laughing matter to imagine a future president who would ignore such an obvious security threat for no good reason beyond some measure of short-term political gain.
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So, what things could boost sea levels?
More insoluble material in the ocean beds could do it. It isn’t automatically a matter of more water there.
But such questions are not even brought up.
Also, good altimetry would need to follow tidal activity and synchronize to points that are equivalent by season and tidal phases. Otherwise we are comparing the diameters of apples and oranges. Tides are several feet, not a tiny fraction of an inch.
The climate alarmists are so quick to denounce anything announced by those money worshiping capitalists, but never tell us how much grant money is based on being able to keep their own story up.
I denied the Club of Rome ...
and peak oil
and the population bomb
and nuclear winter
and ‘natural resources will be depleted by 2000’...
and ‘most of Florida will be under water by 2010’...
Liberals have been carrying a sign saying ‘The end is near’ for over 50 years now. It’s how they frighten the young.
Shame on them.
Unicorns? Not sure yet..
There is a very real demographic winter of declining population which will be devastating to the world over. The young will be in short supply, but it’s not what the liberals are predicting. The documentary film Demographic Winter is on YouTube, and I was recommended it, and would gladly recommend it to anyone.
Anyone who listens to anyone in failing-city baltimore is insane.
bttt
Given the plate tectonics phenomenon, is the ocean rising or is the continent receding?
Just my hairline. :>} (the receding part)
Just to piss liberals off on the subject I tell them, “Yes, we will finally reach the temperature that is normal for the world, before the ice ages.” Gee, they go bat shit crazy.
Why were there warm and cold periods before there were any humans driving SUV’s?
They never have an answer for that!
“...before there were any humans driving SUV’s?” Guess you never watched the Flintstones. Lot’s of increased huffin’ and puffin’ to run them footmobiles. :>}
Yeah, but those Flintstones were living right, that’s how it should be done. My Tahoe is evil !
My hemi ram is too. As well as Mrs. rktman’s S80 V8 Volvo. Mileage sucks on both of them but we’re doin’ our part to help stop the next ice age.
This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxUD8E-qbyI
It’s cultural suicide - incentive patterns are in place... and working. As incentive patterns do....
Yep, a good documentary at that.
Can you blame them?
Liberal elites flood the US attempting to create a servant class for themselves but that won't work either... As soon as those people can afford birth control they'll stop having kids too.
The Byrds what a group.
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