Posted on 10/09/2010 7:57:50 AM PDT by Zakeet
Nowhere in the Maldives juts more than 10 feet above the Indian Ocean, making it extremely worried about sea level rise. Its president, Mohamed Nasheed, illustrated the point by holding a cabinet meeting under water in the run-up to last year's Copenhagen summit.
But a new study shows that global warming is not the only cause of swelling seas. Much comes from "water mining" – the pumping of vast amounts of groundwater from beneath the earth, mainly to irrigate crops. This inevitably ends up in the oceans after it evaporates from farmland and comes down as rain.
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I told you stupid Freepers that we would have global warming and rising oceans unless you gave up driving and quit eating ... but did you listen ... oh, no ... not only did you ignore my expert advice, you laughed when some bimbo called me a crazed sex poodle ... and you doubted it when I said I invented the Internet ... and you said I didn't deserve the Nobel Prize ... so now look what's happening ... and now it's all your fault
The stupid people think this is all a real problem.
The smart people know that it's a con game.
Water mining? Pleeeze stop making up bogus reasons for something that isn’t occurring. The left are so invested in government ruling us all and controlling all that they keep throwing crap like this at us to beguile us.
We’re so sorry (not), Uncle Albert!
This is embarrassing. This is so absurd to be passed off as scientific reasoning that it borders on mental illness.
It’s all America’s fault. Until we came along with our system of freedom and capitalism, the earth was getting along just fine for millenniums supporting only a half billion or so people. If we would just put the enlightened ones in charge, they would decide which half billion of us are worth keeping and everything would be hunky-dory again. < / sarcasm >
I thought it was caused by swimmers at the beach peeing in the water.
Which is just about as likely.
Uh...it’s called the hydrologic cycle.
I guess we had better stop then.
But if we stop what are the consequences.
Well let’s see; there will not be as much food available so more people will starve and there will not be as much fresh water available so more people will die of thirst.
Hmmm, maybe we should think about this some more and double check our data some more.
After the tsunami, I would have saved every penny and made it my sole life goal to get the hell off the Maldives.
Why?
Only approx. 30% of our planet is land mass, much of which is uninhabited, the remaining 70% oceans. I can’t for the life of me figure out how the people living in the inhabited areas could possibly affect change on a global scale........it’s impossible.
I used to make fun of algore, and even did a few cartoons about him, but after a while you just realize that he’s done more to ridicule himself than anyone else could ever do. He is a mental case.
I didn't.
Is there a date on that yet? ; )
swelling seas
What swelling seas?
lockbox
There I said it. I had to when I saw Al Gore’s picture.
So I guess the solution is to stop drilling for wells and stop growing food. We don’t need to eat, it is better to have lower ocean levels and starve.
Well, quick. Stop the irrigation. Stop planting food. Take all the illegals who used to pick crops and put them on welfare.
If a few million people starve, that’s Bush’s fault!
Women and children first! No, I take that back. Owls, turtles and rabbits first!
lockboxes cause global warming....please rub my fifth chakra
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