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Your location is Long Island and you think a 13ft. rise in sea levels is going to be a net GAIN in tillable land?
If you are having trouble, imagine that the water levels from Sandy are now permanent.
Oh well. Nothing can be done, this is nature. It has happened before and will happen again. What is everyone going to do when the continents drift far from their current locations and the climate changes from that? What? Put a glass dome over the continent and install HVAC? Seriously?!?!?! Humans will just have to deal with the naturally occurring changes and adapt or die. Just like every single living creature on this planet has had to do since life began. It's just that simple.
Who said " Never let a crisis go to waste"? So increased volcanic activity is to blame but we have to pay more global warming taxes to pretend we can stop it.
Screw Hillary, I think Obama is the one with worse brain damage.
Don't you really mean never allow a taxing opportunity go to waste? As always follow the money as even in a disaster many will see it as a Looting opportunity. Kind of like the stimulus ;anyone see that massive infrastructure said to be the end result creating massive number of Jobs? Obviously the creators in this administration don't because they are saying we have ignored that infrastructure now.
How long until the usual hysterics start demanding we turn over vast powers and resources to the government to "do something about it", when no one can do anything about it?
Exactly! We live in a post glacial period, the glaciers are melting, and have been melting, nothing can stop this. The reality is that the seas are rising and will continue to rise. Planet earth has been warming since the end of the last ice age, and even though the planet's climate is warmer now, it was much warmer then now over the past 10,000 years.
Exactly! We live in a post glacial period, the glaciers are melting, and have been melting, nothing can stop this. The reality is that the seas are rising and will continue to rise. Planet earth has been warming since the end of the last ice age, and even though the planet's climate is warmer now, it was much warmer then now over the past 10,000 years.
But overall cooler than it was 2 million years ago.
Exactly! We live in a post glacial period, the glaciers are melting, and have been melting, nothing can stop this. The reality is that the seas are rising and will continue to rise. Planet earth has been warming since the end of the last ice age, and even though the planet's climate is warmer now, it was much warmer then now over the past 10,000 years.
Unbelievable....As has been pointed out by other posters, it is not the sea level rise that is the main problem, it is the speed of the rise...In the past the change took thousands of years, giving time to adapt....Do you really think such a rise one or two hundred years is comparable?
How do you cope? Easy, you and people like you save your money so you can afford the costs associated with it, including abandoning your poor choice of location to move to a safer or better location.
Hey, I live up on a hill in the midst of several acres. If the water ever gets this high both of us will be long gone.
That doesn't change the fact that we've got huge investments along our coastlines. In my opinion it makes sense to protect them if we can feasibly do so. What's the downside?
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