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big amygdala, and small anterior cingulate cortex.
So you don't have any clue how that number was arrived at? Where it came fromm? Who did the study? What the criticisms are? Results of similar studies?
This has gotta be the most obvious proof that it has nothing to do with the "science" or the "data" for the Climate Change "Deniers".
The only change in historical measurements at least for Wilmington NC is the normal rise that has been have occurring for at least a century and probably millenniums is that it's decelerating at the moment. This is the data they want them to use instead of predictions based on worse case scenarios.
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The only change in historical measurements at least for Wilmington NC is the normal rise that has been have occurring for at least a century and probably millenniums is that it's decelerating at the moment. This is the data they want them to use instead of predictions based on worse case scenarios.
"According to local media, the bill was the handiwork of industry lobbyists and coastal municipalities who feared that investors and property developers would be scared off by predictions of high sea-level rises."
And aren't "worst case scenarios" the very reason for planning ahead (or do you only pay attention to the "best case scenarios")?
BTW, for some reason, Hurricane Katrina and the underbuilt levees come to mind....
"According to local media, the bill was the handiwork of industry lobbyists and coastal municipalities who feared that investors and property developers would be scared off by predictions of high sea-level rises."
Well if I didn't know that Republicans are dumb asses, I do now....No wonder your political system is broken. When you has such idiots in the driver's seat it is inevitable that you will end up in the ditch.
First off, let's make it clear that this is from the Young Turks who are consistent in spinning things to meet their agenda.
Secondly, please go to 0:42-0:58
"Okay, so we have the normal Orwellian stuff, you're just not allowed to use certain words. And if the sea levels are rising, don't fix it, just ban people from saying sea level rising"
I bolded it so you can see the sheer stupidity of his line of arguement. Do you get it? Fixing the rising sea level is basically saying we should cool the sun.
Give him credit for matching tedious law making, with equally insane logic.
And on the other side of the argument is going to be a bunch of envionazis, so what's you point?
In any event who is supporting what doesn't change the historical and present measurements.
I wouldn't call NOAA or the Scientific American Environmental extremists, ask the Army Corp of Engineers if building near the coast line is a good idea. I would be more worried about developers attempting to take science out of the equation for personal profit and at taxpayer expense.
Unlike "worst cases" like say, New Orleans ("Katrina")
New Orleans is in bowl, that will happen again. Might be this year, might be one thousand years from now but it will happen again no matter what measures are taken to avoid it. Water will go where ever it wants to go, you can slow it down but you can't stop it.
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or Fukushima (the Tohoku earthquake & tsunami)...?
You're missing my point, you don't build a fifty foot wall to avoid this in the future. You might for example want to take reasonable precautions like having a water proof generators or house them in tsunami proof building -or- you could have generators available off site -or- if country like the US offers to fly them there immediately you might want to take them up on their offer.
Getting back to th topic you don't run around like the sky is falling just because one study suggests there (maybe-might-possibly) be an increase in the sea level rise especially when there is others studies that say otherwise base on current and historical data.
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