Posted on 03/04/2018 7:21:20 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
In less than 100 years, strolling from shop to shop along Commercial Street in Portland or running with your dog on Willard Beach in South Portland could become something folks did in the old days.
Based on the latest tidal trends, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts that by the year 2100, those areas will be under at least a foot of seawater at high tide on a calm day.
Under this grim scenario, Willard Beach would disappear, showing up once in a while as a narrow strip of sand at extreme low tides. The indomitable brick buildings on Commercial Street, which harken to Portland’s shipping heyday and draw tourists to the Old Port, would be gone.
Preparing for sea level rise is just one aspect of a proposed joint venture by the neighboring cities to develop climate action and adaptation plans that would be designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050.
In broad terms, the plans would aim to reduce waste in all aspects of everyday life; increase energy efficiency at home, in government buildings and in the workplace; promote sustainable transportation options throughout the region; and prepare for the various impacts of climate change.
Julie Rosenbach, South Portland’s sustainability director, acknowledged the challenge of building community-wide support for and engagement in the new plans.
“We’re going big,” Rosenbach admitted. But rather than focus on the doom and gloom of climate change, she said, “we’re going to address people’s daily needs and concerns.”
“We’ve already locked ourselves into what’s going to happen,” she said. “With just a foot of sea level rise, we’re going to see 100 high tides of 12 feet or more each year.”
“Resiliency doesn’t have to be competing with development,” Rosenbach said. “It can be working with development.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pressherald.com ...
I like how they can’t accurately predict out one to five days yet we are supposed to believe they can accurately assess ten twenty or one hundred years..
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And what about the idiots that fall for this claptrap?
speaking of model predictions, it’s long been mathematically proven that weather will NEVER be accurately predicted beyond 72 hours because the atmosphere, oceansphere, and lithosphere are all chaotic systems. Since “climate” is influenced by all of those as well as solar conditions and interior Earth conditions, then what do you suppose the outer boundary is for accurately predicting “climate change”?
Build a wall!
(You notice, I was nice. I didn’t say dike.)
Shouldn't the numb nutts be agitating to stop that, too?
Blocking the view, and all that.
No Big deal, Condemn the Properties, declare it a Disaster Area, Raze all the buildings and homes, Back Charge the Property Owners for the cost of restoring the land to it’s natural state.
Problem Solved!
Dang, Paladin2! Beat me to it!
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Okay, I’ll believe it when WHEN you show me proof, not BS...OK?
This is for Portland, Maine
And make Portland pay for it!
Well well, seems you have just hit on the solution to rising water levels!
All we have to do is dredge the oceans.
Sometime I wish it would start just so I could listen to Warmies try to explain it!
I know.
Almost amusing if it wasn’t a primer on “how to build a brainwashed cult in three easy steps.”
We’re gonna need a big one!
Nowadays, with the snowflakes, I think they’ve got it down to 2 steps.
Great how they can take a less than 2 mm/year average that give less than 7 inches rise by 2100 - straight from the NOAA data - and extrapolate that into a disaster. :^)
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?plot=50yr&stnid=8418150
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?plot=50yr&stnid=8418150
One more layer of bricks on the sea walls should do it.
A fact in the Portland Press Herald in Portland, Maine is a postulation or theory to anyone else with a brain. This failing newspaper has only a rare acquaintance with the truth.
Instead of “strolling” from shop to shop or “running with their dog”, they can always swim from shop to shop or swim with their dog. I just don’t see a problem. Okay, maybe sharks...
Not many sharks in Portland,Maine waters.
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