Sea-level rise threatens Miami

I know, I know: Global warming is a hoax. Why, the fact that parts of Miami Beach now flood at high tide is just coincidence....
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/u...n-the-eye-of-the-storm-on-climate-change.html

This isn't storm surge; this is every high tide. As sea levels continue to rise, it's going to eventually cost the Miami area billions to address, which is cheaper than the possible TRILLIONS in damage they're facing if they don't address it.

This is climate change. This is real. This is starting to put real dollar values on the cost of doing nothing.

 

Why are rich liberals still buying property there? I can't figure that out.

 

Man made global warming is a hoax, natural climate change has never been disputed by anyone with the intellectual attributes higher than an ant...

 

We are still melting from the last ice age, that is what causes those sea level rises according to my link. Unless we go back into another ice age, sea level rising is a good thing.

Another explanation is a natural cycle of ocean currents that happen every few decades that cause those rises in sea level. After a few decades the waters will recede and be transferred to another part of the world.

http://syzygyastro.hubpages.com/hub/How-Sea-Levels-Rise-and-Fall

 

Yuh-huh. Whatever.

You may want to tell that to some of your fellow deniers on this board -- the ones, for instance, who claim "global warming ended in 1998".

 

The climate changes, who denies that? If warming ended in 1998 then something else replaced it, none of which has anything to do with the hoax you are trying to perpetuate...

 

I agree that goes to my theory that sea level rises and falls cyclically, and when it rises it is used as propaganda for global warming.... The Climate naturally changes and has done so well before fossil fuels were ever burned.

 

At one point this planet was a massive ice ball, if only there were mammoths farting and cavemen burning down forests. How history could have been changed...

 

The place really could use a good flushing.

 

I agree the propaganda also states that the flatulence of cows causes global warming and sea level rise which is absurd, because the Dinosaurs were much bigger and their flatulence should have already flooded the earth ten times over by now. Cheers mate.

 

Well if you lefties are so concerned about sea level rise why are you dumping so much fresh water into the ocean rather than on crops? (The very crops you guys are complaining about drought caused by climate change)
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-w...water-california-farmers-save-endangered-fish

 

so sell your Miami condo and move to West Virginia.

 

Even with the warmies computer fantasy predictions the water will rise a whopping 7 inches over the next 100 years.

 

No doubt, but honestly I'm unfamiliar with reptilian flatulence so I stuck with mammals...

The other factor that is actually being ignored here is that the tectonic plate movements are currently trending towards about one inch further between Europe and America and one inch closer from America to Asia, over the course of time such a thing will essentially have to have various effects, which are completely non-climate related...

Have city planners taken such matters into account?

 

Hmm. That may be the most nonsensical reply yet in this thread. Which given the very low bar being set by the other conservative posters, says quite a lot.

So apparently you advocate stopping all rivers from reaching the sea, in order to reduce sea-level rise? That's your solution?

Never mind that surface freshwater (rivers, lakes) makes up just 0.49% of the earth's water, so it has a negligible effect on sea levels.
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthwherewater.html

 

God is punishing Florida for their crappy voting record. We should not attempt to intervene in God's will.

 

You didn't read the link did you?

 

What is ironic is that the main reason that the deniers reject climate change is because dealing with it will raise their taxes a bit, but the financial, political and social consequences of climate change will be astronomical in comparison.
It's the classic case of penny wise and pound foolish.
And as you can see by the retorts posted, trying to educate deniers about climate change is as rewarding as casting pearls before swine.

 

Sure I did. It's an article about almond farmers complaining that they may not get their expected allotment of water because, during the current drought, water must be reserved to protect an endangered fish species.

I assume that's where you got the bit about letting the rivers dump water into the seas. Which, as I pointed out, is a very silly argument to make in terms of sea levels.

Did I miss something?

 

Lets talk some more on low percentages, man only occupies 0.5-1% of the Earth, so are you sure you want to go there?

 

Quick. Act surprise.

 

Yes. You don't see the hypocrisy in liberals calling out sea levels rising and drought as they actively chose to let fresh water flow into the sea as opposed to a drought ridden farm in order to save a smelt. You then cite its insignificant but then think my gas lawnmover is causing tornadoes in the same spot weve had tornadoes for eons. Hilarious.

 

Farmers don't often vote liberal neo-commie, so letting their farms die is irrelevant to them, they will damn all the rivers on the planet for collectivist farming later...

 

Liberal neo-commie? Oh brother.

 

Climate change has always been real...been going on since the beginning of the planet...where you been?

What's diff is climate change for political purposes.