Rising seas threaten to flood launch sites, NASA says

CNN ^ | Sep. 6, 2015 | Brandon Griggs

[blackdog]

It should be a journalistic law that reporters of science as it pertains to global warming shall be banned from using the word “May”cause.............., or “Could cause.......”

[Kirkwood]

The sea level isn't rising. This soft earth is naturally subsiding and turning into bedrock. Don't climatologists ever speak to geologists?

[mabarker1]

Seemed as logical as any explanation;)

[Fightin Whitey]

So why doesn’t Ellis Island and all of the east coast have the same problem?

Oh sure...as if the water down there in the Atlantic Ocean near Florida somehow interacts and influences all the other water in the Atlantic...do you think we are imbeciles or something??

lol

[TexasFreeper2009]

Even ancient man could build dikes... apparently we are suppose to believe we have the technology to go the the stars but are somehow unable to build a dike anymore!

lol

[Bryanw92]

I’ve been going to St Augustine for 40 years. The ocean is still where it always was. I doubt things are different 100 miles south.

[ThunderSleeps]

If the sea level is indeed rising - at that is in fact a big if that has not been proven yet... All the estimates put any significant rise decades in the future.

If we are still launching rockets with chemical based combustion propulsion at this time then NASA has failed miserably and deserves to have its launch facilities inundated.

[capt. norm]

Yeah.....where are the sirens and TV/radio warnings?

[rktman]

I thought we just read the French foreign minister with John f'n John Heinz Kerry right next to him say we only had 500 days to straighten this out ! And that was last week so somebody better get crackin'. LOL! 😂

[dfwgator]

Might as well concede space to the Russians and Chinese.

[Bryanw92]

>>Even ancient man could build dikes...

We don’t build dikes anymore because we put our efforts as a nation into building dykes.

[plain talk]

I suspected what you say is true although I don’t live there. It would seem before and after photo’s would be an easy way to prove or disprove their statements and then everyone could draw their own conclusions.

[Moonman62]

(CNN)—NASA’s rockets are astounding machines, capable of blasting into space at thousands of miles per hour and withstanding temperatures twice the melting point of steel.

But they can’t take off underwater.

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The Big Government loving, lying idiots can buy what’s left of Sea Launch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Launch

[Yaelle]

If the sea levels were rising, there wouldn’t be the same collection of luxury homes right at the water in Malibu as there have been for 40 years.

[TexasCajun]

Duh!! ...the picture shows a facility a 1000' or so from the beach front!

Then complain of flooding during tropical weather?

[hal ogen]

If what these nasa climate-compromised “scientists” say is true, why did they build the launch pads and so forth right next to the sea? Idiots. I guess when the government spends OPM (other peoples’ money) nothing matters.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Rising water never seemed to bother the Dutch.

That's because they aren't afraid to fight back. If New Orleans was a Dutch city, no one would ever have heard about Katrina.

[Slyfox]

Have you ever noticed that everything that made America great Obama has worked to tarnish or destroy?

[RW_Whacko]

Someone posted shots from Beach Movies from 40 years ago and contrasted them with present beach shots **NO** DIFFERENCE!!!
Only difference is Annette is no longer with us.

[PIF]

DONE. Some years ago...