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Considering that includes 50 million or so Americans, I find it interesting this isn't discussed more.
Are there seawalls or levies around San Francisco? Or New York? Or Miami? (sn)
I'm certain that things are far worse than we originally thought.
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Yeah, frankly, I think we passed the tipping point.
Kyoto was the last chance, and Bush told the world to stuff it.
Now, this is going to be more about civil engineering and massive population migrations than producing less CO2.
But, there is one good thing:
The following are the 10 largest metropolitan areas along the Gulf Coast of the United States.
1 Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown 5,539,949 Texas
2 Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater 2,587,967 Florida
3 New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner 1,319,589 Louisiana
4 Sarasota–Bradenton–Venice 651,862 Florida
5 Mobile–Daphne–Fairhope 588,246 Alabama
6 Cape Coral–Fort Myers 514,295 Florida
7 Pensacola–Ferry Pass–Brent 437,135 Florida
8 Corpus Christi 409,741 Texas
9 Beaumont–Port Arthur 383,443 Texas
10 Tallahassee 331,655 Florida
Let them drown.
My Aunt bought a condo in Bal Habour, Florida recently and bragged about what a deal she got. It sits no more than five feet above current sea-level. We younger family members tried to talk her out of it and she simply called it and us "hippy crap". We shall see, Auntie, we shall see.
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If she's old enough, she may be dead before the big stuff happens.
If not, do give your auntie a smirk for me when she comes looking for a place to stay.
Aside from the human cost, the potential for ecological chaos is what deeply troubles me.
Apart from the ongoing biotic collapse at the poles, , the temperate and tropial biomes are severely stressed. Global ecological collapse could render the planet unrecognizable.
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Why does this jackass still have his job?
(Oh, right, he probably got his job in the first place because he was a skeptic.)
How much more proof do these morons need? Of course, like with anything from the Monkey King Bush administration, they are going to be a day late and billions short.
Thanks repulsive repukes for destroying our planet... Of course, it could of been worse since they could of used nukes on someone/something by now.
Rupert Murdoch, Bush and even most of the oil companies seem to be trying to move away from their previous denials, but you still have those idiots representing Oklahoma in the Senate, the Tom Delays of the world and some of those industry-funded propaganda groups pushing the same old bullshit.
They won't stop, either. What are they going to say to their followers? "We've been scamming you for donations and votes for years because we know you hate smart people as much as we do?" No, they'll try to just keep dragging it until they retire.
http://www.desmogblog.com/500-scientists-with-d...
Usually, those lists of "scientists" denying global warming are filled with oil company geologist, crackpot engineers, half-witted meteorologists and junior college earth science instructors, but I guess this list used some real scientist's names.
Some blogger e-mailed the list to some of the scientists mentioned and they're pretty pissed.
Oil giant also in talks to look at curbing greenhouse gases
updated 12:42 p.m. CT, Fri., Jan. 12, 2007
NEW YORK - Oil major Exxon Mobil Corp. is engaging in industry talks on possible U.S. greenhouse gas emissions regulations and has stopped funding groups skeptical of global warming claims — moves that some say could indicate a change in stance from the long-time foe of limits on heat-trapping gases.
Exxon, along with representatives from about 20 other companies, is participating in talks sponsored by Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit. The think tank said it expected the talks would generate a report in the fall with recommendations to legislators on how to regulate greenhouse emissions.
Boudreux said Exxon in 2006 stopped funding the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit advocating limited government regulation, and other groups that have downplayed the risks of greenhouse emissions.
CEI acknowledged the change. “I would make an argument that we’re a useful ally, but it’s up to them whether that’s in the priority system that they have, right or wrong,” director Fred Smith said on CNBC’s “On the Money.”
Last year, CEI ran advertisements, featuring a little girl playing with a dandelion, that downplayed the risks of carbon dioxide emissions.>/i>
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It seems to be less the oil companies now and more the right wing groups like CEI , who have a vested interest in keeping the debate going, that you have to watch out for. They, the Heritage Foundation and the others have a lot of wingnut politicians in their pockets and the benefit greatly by keeping the Repub base hopped up about this issue.
Cheney said if there was a one percent chance that Saddam had WMD, then we had to launch a massively expensive and sutructive invasion and occupation of that country, which coincidentally was massively beneficial to his cronies.
But if a one percent doubt can be dredged up about Climate Change (you can always find a for-rent-two-percent of 'experts') then we need to "wait and see" and conduct "further study" in the rigorous and integrity-filled manner we've come to expect from flat-earth Repig scientific studies.
Meanwhile, DUBYA thinks they should be starving in India, so we can go on putting their food in our gas tanks. And the next Dubya is either McCain or Clinton, of the agribusiness clan.
"FUEL FOR THOUGHT: "LET THEM EAT ETHANOL," DUBYA"
http://blog-me-no-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/05/
fuel-for-thought-let-them-eat-ethanol.html
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