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When the Ice Melts
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Just 6' rise will take out some of Florida.. Predictions end at 216' rise. Most likely not in our lifetime but coming eventually. Where we live is 500' above sea level .
https://www.treehugger.com/what-earth-will-look-if-climate-change-melts-all-ice-4858668
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I'm investing in oceanfront property in Arizona.
No worries,,,,,,,,,,at 6000’ I’ve got a little more time !!
Just imagine Florida , New York City, Atlantic city.. New Juersy underwater .. Land will get expensive anywhere real quick. This won't happen overnight but gradually folks will realize they have to move.
However don't fret..Our Govt will build a 250 foot tall wall to keep out the water.
Treehugger.com?
Yeah, right.
It's a good start. But I bet the smell of those sh@# holes will remain, and kill all the fish in the immediate area...
Indian food would probably be to spicy and if they eat chinese they'll just be hungry an hour later and will overeat and die of a cardiac event. The bears and the seals they prey on will just adapt and use land masses to live and hunt on instead of ice floes anyway.
Here is an article about the global warming poster animal;
The Myth That the Polar Bear Population Is Declining - Foundation for Economic Education (fee.org)
Doesn't look so dire to me, well maybe it is dire for the extra seals that are being eaten. Bob
Or... Those folks are so full of poopity that their eyes are brown and we'll see another ice age. It's weather. It changes.
If you look at the history of the planet you'll see that these things are cyclical. Hotter, colder, hotter, colder, hotter, etc., etc.
The dang weather man can't accurately predict what's going to happen in three days, let alone the time ranges those folks are talkin' about. If I was as consistently wrong as they are I would have never been able to hold down a job!
Bring it on.
I am investing in Coppertone ( insert green font )
@Lock_Stock_and_Darryl That thought makes me smile. 😁
You might not be smiling when they move in next door to you.
More Climate Change BS. With all the hue and cry, so far sea levels have not risen one inch.
I believe you might want to rethink your position.
As a point of reference just look to Louisiana.
Need I say more?
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
Can anyone think of a single US or world-wide problem that would go away, or at least greatly diminish, if there were a whole lot fewer people around?
Where I live there are moraine lines on the mountains a couple thousand feet up. That's where the top of the glacier scraped along and deposited boulders and debris.
2000' of ice is a lot. It must have raised sea levels somewhere, right? Wonder where....
When the ice melts….
….you’re not drinking your whiskey fast enough.
When I was looking for retirement property I stayed away from the coast. The issue is not if it floods, but when it floods.
Two friends bought houses in Delaware & didn't understand why I would ask what the property elevation was. The ones at 13' figured it out when Hurricane Sandy flooded to 11'.
Consider that all the most strident of liberal climate doomsayers own beachside property before you panic.
Contrary to most dire predictions, it is not "when" all the ice melts, but "if" it does. We are very likely at or near the peak of inter-glacial heating, meaning that polar melting isn't over but the end is in sight. In sight to a climatologist, that is. There is always lag in heat systems - as everyone knows who has observed that it is coldest after the sun rises and hottest hours after noon - so the time of least polar ice is probably 1,000 years or more in the future.
Glacial epochs occur 80,000 to 100,000 years apart. There have been many of them in the planet's past, and we're in yet another one now, the coldest part of the most recent was about 50,000 years ago, and it has been warming and the ice has been melting ever since. Human have not a thing to do with it, nor could we influence it if we tried.
Barring an asteroid strike, a mega volcano, or a nuclear war, any of which would drastically cool the planet (and wipe out all humankind anyway) it's going to get warmer and then start to freeze again. There'll be ice a half-mile deep over Chicago some day. Again.
Well, I guess I'm in trouble, I live in Florida, three miles from the beach and at a staggering 35 ft elevation.
But ..... I have a boat😉
Addenda: From Wiki. Here's a graph of CO2 levels over the past 800,000 years, as measured in ice core samples. CO2 levels are correlated to glacial phases, and thus this graph shows approximate glacial periods over that same timeframe. It also shows that CO2 levels vary widely regardless of human activity.
There'll be ice a half-mile deep over Chicago some day. Again.
Well, that should make the weekends more quiet. Lead pipe cinch the mayor won't.
Going to be awhile but headed downhill
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
The great flood will NEVER happen again. GOD'S promise to us!! Who you gonna believe......God or rich people who LIVE ON THE OCEAN FRONT!
....." Hooper drives the boat chief....."