Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/15/2008 7:21:33 PM PDT by kingattax
Sebring - Polar bears and their melting habitat sent a wake-up call to South Florida water managers Wednesday.
The same day the federal government added the polar bear to the endangered species list because of global warming, South Florida water managers agreed to take a yearlong look at how melting ice could raise sea levels that could claim the southern part of the state.
The South Florida Water Management District's long-term plans once anticipated the sea level rising about 1 foot by 2100, but more recent projections say the rise could be five times as much.
That could move the southern tip of Florida's mainland to the Tamiami Trail and submerge swaths of some of the most populated areas along the southeast coast.
From flooding to more saltwater seeping in and fouling drinking water supplies, climate change is an issue that needs more attention, said Jayantha Obeysekera, who will lead the district's global warming review.
"We cannot put up walls and stop the sea level," Obeysekera said. "Let's start looking at it [and] see what our vulnerabilities are."
On Wednesday, district officials called for spending $100,000 over the next year to study the threat of climate change.
The district, which has a $1.3 billion budget, might need to do more, governing board member Charles Dauray said.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
they can send me half that much and i'll give these dopes one hell of a report. i'll even throw in a few bags of ice.
We can always hope.
I think Andy Reid should focus on the Eagles a little bit more than his HOBBY!
Two years ago I did my part, by getting out of the way; I moved from central Florida to central Kentucky. Now I’m a thousand feet above sea level, and if a tsunami strikes from the Atlantic, I have the Appalachian Mts. as a shield. Another ice age, however, could be a different matter.
Floating Chads?
Will Glowbull warming cause the extinction of polar bears in South Florida? I think so. Probably already has.
Aren’t there an awful lot of democrat party shysters in South Florida?
One can only hope.......
Florida is the inflamed appendix of the US.
Considering that sea level has risen at least 500 feet since the end of th elast ice age (Long Island Sound was a valley), it seems that it could rise a few more feet and still be “natural”.
For another $100,000 I’ll write them a report on the problems a falling sea level will cause (shipping channels unusable, cities and ports far from the water, beaches unusable for hundreds of years until new shore is developed by waves- that’s a teaser, $100,000 for the full report).
Next stupid question ...
I believe the glaciers in the last Ice Age got down to where the Ohio Rive now is. So KY should be okay.
If this is true, it makes me wonder why we spent billions of taxpayer dollars rebuilding Nawleans. Dumb move. But so is putting the polar bear on the “endangered species list.”
Everything up to the middle of Georgia used to be underwater. I suppose it could be again.
I object to that last article about South Florida submerging into the ocean. I myself have lived in South Florida for over twenty years and never have I ever grggle grggle grrgle..
(with major apologies to Monty Python falling out of a tall tower sketch)
I saw a History Channel documentary about the Roman invasion of Britain. They were so worried they built barricades above the shore to protect their landing sights. The historian showed the ditches and foundations of the barricades but stated they were now about two miles in shore. It seems the ocean had receded from when the Romans were there.
How that got beyond the Ministry of Truth is beyond me. The Censors must be slipping.
Darn southern Floridan polar bears, they've been hell ever since they got cell phones.
Our fellow citizens are ignoramuses and will continue to clamor for more restrictions on their own freedom long after news stories about this hoax (hopefully) cease to be published.
I feel sorry for my children and grandchildren.
Outstanding news! I will offer a thousand dollars for any house or condo currently on the ocean or intercoastal in South Florida. It is going to be under water anyway, right? Right?
a major infestation
Now there's a good solid American name!
Why mess around? They should build a 100 foot seawall right now.
Fill a plastic or metal drinking glass to the rim with water. Put it in the freezer. When it is frozen solid, remove and note that the ice is either above the top of the rim of the container, or some of the water spilled out of the container and froze on the floor of the freezer.
This is because water expands as it turns in to ice. Conversely, melting ice resulting in a smaller volume of water than the volume of the ice.
Now apply this to icebergs. The submerged portion of icebergs take up more space when they are frozen than the water which would result from their melting. Given that over 90% of an iceberg is below water level, is they all melted completely it would have a negligible effect on sea levels.
Props to Mr. Sitton, my physics teacher at Nimitz High School, 1977.
What’s the worry? John McGore will save us with his free market cap and trade program.
Good catch!
“I moved from central Florida to central Kentucky. Now I’m a thousand feet above sea level, and if a tsunami strikes from the Atlantic, I have the Appalachian Mts. as a shield. Another ice age, however, could be a different matter.”
You should be ok. In the last Ice Age the glaciers stopped at the Ohio River.
Uhm. I don’t believe that CO2 is driving climate. It’s the sun, solar variation and orbital mechanics.
NO ONE is suggesting that melting ice that is already in the water will raise the ocean levels. The scare mongers are suggesting that gigantic glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica will get greased up and flow into the oceans. Of course, this discounts that they typically are in bowls and only the ends of the glaciers can calve...but that’s not enough to stop an alarmist. The whole glacier might just get mobile and raise the water 200 meters in a day!!!
“We cannot put up walls and stop the sea level,” Obeysekera said.”
It’s not like she’s Dutch or something.
Come on now, we left our chads hanging so folks like you would not have to see Algore waddle to the podium to the strains of Hail to the Chief!
A little more respect please!
Most of Texas was under water also, and before anyone starts cheering, that was a few hundred million years ago.:)
Having wasted half my life there, I can write you a litany of evils that have emanated from between the sun and the sand in that place that have nothing to do with the bumbling folly of the 2000 election. But I won't. I'll simply say that Pinellas County is Satan's winter home, and leave it at that.
With a Cabin Cruiser and a 19 footer in my yard here in Tampa, I’m not even thinking about this. I’m more concerned with Islamic/Illegals terrorism in my back yard. I have Gazans living in my hispanic/black/anglo neighborhood and it’s not a comfortable feeling. Let’s keep worrying about climate change (Urh change? Ummh, Barry?) and massive socialism expansion and sing Kumbaya!
Florida is a sandbar. It will always change. In its center you can find fossilized sea creatures and even the occasional mastadon fossils buried in the limestone/phosphate. Change has been happening there for a long long time.
Is it caused by man made global warming ? No
Is it caused by the natural and always happening and unstoppable forces of nature ? Yes.
In Al's case, that would be more like Hail to the Chef!
And Floridans didn't allow the Dems to steal the election in 2000, while the Dems tried so hard to punch the chads in the three contested counties.
Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.
No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.
http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Widescale+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm
You are wrong. Every 12 hours or so rising oceans cover part of sout Florida or for that matter every place in the world where there is a beach.
It’s not like she’s Dutch or something.
Isn't that beautiful - we are not going to put up walls but rather command the sea to recede. If that doesn't display the vanity what does?
Actually, you can. That's what they did in New Orleans, and it worked just fine for 300 years. You just have to remember to maintain the walls.
(Suggestion: don't subcontract the work to the Army Corps if timely maintenance is a priority)
Amen. Thank you.
OMG!
Am I gonna be covered in ice, here in WNY?
Where do I run? What kind of shelter do I need to build? Help me, someone?
I have “ISK” to barter, even though I am just a rookie...
But where does satan go in the summer? Nevermind, at least this answers the age old question of if hell really freezes over. It must because satan takes a winter vacation in Florida.:)
What would constitute an "American name," exactly? Pocahontas? Tecumseh? Crazy Horse?
I've heard of English names, German names, Irish names, Italian names, but I've never heard of an "American" name.
It's nutty - another "club of Rome", Population bomb etc etc.
Liberal love to scare the ignorant.
Amerigo Vespucci
; )
It is so simple and I can easily explain it all to you. And I'm certain that you will be so pleased with the answer that you won't mind paying my $5000 fee.
LOL!
Anyone remember when the Army Corps of Engineers were asked to do a study of how to stop Niagara Falls from receeding/changing?
It would ruin “tourism”, you know!
Maybe we could divert AlGore’s attention to something really critical, like stopping Niagara Falls. If anyone can figure it out, he could.
After all, he invented the internet, so he will “save the day” for the sorry plight of the town of Niagara Falls, which would be “Niagara Rapids”, if “man-made” erosion has it’s way.
He can point to the highways, helicopters, power plants, and tourist “Maid-of-the-Mist” boats as the cause of all this eroding going on.
Which Freeper is going to point his little wooden head in this direction?
After all, Niagara Falls is one of the seven wonders of the world! Surely Al can figure out some way to get another Nobel prize for stopping it in it’s recessive tracks!
/sarc
(in case I am up too late, and not making any sense to the rest of you)
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