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Sea Rise Could Force Millions In Florida To Adapt Or Flee (miamiherald.com)
mdsolar writes: For the first time, a team of researchers looked at ongoing population growth in areas where the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has created flood maps that more accurately reflect local conditions. What they found was startling: projections that failed to factor in population growth in dense states like Florida hugely underestimated the number of people at risk and the cost of protecting them. Combined with the findings from a 2015 report, that means Florida can claim two titles: most property at risk, and now, most people.
Been reading The Guardian again, have we? By all means read it. They do some excellent reporting on a lot of things. But their reporting on climate issues is truly atrocious.
Increase in hurricanes? Not happening. Really. Here's a chart http://policlimate.com/tropica... The vertical axis is ACE -- Accumulated Cyclone Energy which is what the cool kids use nowadays. It gives greater weight to stronger/longer lasting storms. But the number of storms isn't increasing either. Why isn't the number increasing? No one knows. Maybe more wind shear offsets more warm water.
Severe drought? No real increase. BTW, the worst drought condition is probably the Sahara. It didn't rain a lot there before, but it quit raining there almost completely about 4000 years ago. No one knows why.
Extreme snowfall? Probably not, but the older records are not very good. Possibly the worst snowfall event on the US East Coast was the blizzard of 1888 but it's hard to compare it with modern events because reporting is different now.
BTW, there isn't any recent event that compares to things like the Summer of 1814 (The "year without a Summer"), the dustbowl drought. The severe droughts in the American West in the 1300s, the 1938 New England Hurricane, etc, etc, etc.
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey
The OP was saying that too many people BELIEVE in environmental causes to the point of not listening or not considering alternative positions. AND there are a lot of Gaia types out there who are religious fanatics.
Many of tese idiots believe the earth, itself, is alive and that humans are parasites.
If you're scared of your govt then you need to further restrict its powers
Vote 3rd Party in 2016 and beyond
Did you miss the part about how you can't build walls? How are you going to pump water away when there's no wall?
You can't build a wall because the reason these idiots live there is because of the view. They're not going to allow a wall to be built. And they Floridians: they don't believe in the sea levels rising, no matter how much evidence you show them, even if water is in their houses.
You Europeans seem to find it impossible to grasp just how stupid a lot of us Americans are. Here's a clue: go read your own history books about how Europeans were back when they were burning people at the stake for believing the "wrong" theology. That's similar to the mentality of about half of America's population today. And Florida has an especially high concentration of them.