Remember, sea level rise is real, but it is the COMBINATION of an absolute rise in ocean height, and the sinking of the land. And most of it is sinking land.
But Virginia has a real problem in Norfolk and Hampton Roads, as the land has sunk so much that sea level has risen 7-14 inches in many places, and a lot of development was done within a few feet of the high tide lines.
So something does need to be done; it simply has nothing to do with climate change (which IS a real thing, after all, since climate has changed throughout recorded history, including a major ice age).
Gillespie cleaned Warner’s clock in this debate, and this is the left’s best shot at countering that.
You and I must have been watching different debates. Warner was the aggressor and had Ed on the defensive the whole time. Ed failed to go after Warner for signing the Gang of 8 bill. If he had approached it Dave Brat style, he could have hit a homerun.
The Gang of 8 bill triples legal immigration to 33 million over the next decade and doubles the guest worker programs from 640,000 to 1.4 million a year--all at a time when 21 million Americans are underemployed or unemployed. Illegal aliens are costing the state of VA over $2 billion a year. The Gang of 8 bill also provides amnesty for at least 12 million illegal aliens, which will cost $6.3 trillion according to a Heritage Foundation study.
Gillespie is going to lose because he is playing the political consultant game of trying not to make a mistake.