Climate extremes may hit Boston area: Ocean levels have already risen one foot: Global Warming

Tufts Daily (Massachusetts) ^ | March 29, 2005 | Anthony McGovern

[rface]

Tufts Daily is now one of my daily reads --- for no good reason

[thoughtomator]

I suppose this is the point where I'm supposed to fire up the SUV, with images of liberals drowning in the streets of Boston filling me with glee.

[ken5050]

Ah..so THIS explains why the tunnel under Boston Harbor leaks....

[Pondman88]

Gonna ruin the real estate market there......

[MD_Willington_1976]

We can fix this...lets nuke some volcanoes...then everyone will moan and whine about having no summer and frost in July...

[riri]

One foot huh? Even at the height of global warming, I thought the most dire predictions where a couple/few inches?

[ClearCase_guy]

I'm glad this is localized. It would be terrible to have ocean levels rise one foot everywhere, but as long as the ocean is changing just within metropolitan Boston, I guess it's no big deal.

[cripplecreek]

"Ah..so THIS explains why the tunnel under Boston Harbor leaks...."



I wouldn't be surprised if the environuts try that explanation. However the tunnel was already underwater so rising water levels wouldn't affect it.

[rface]

one foot already and another foot to come.....but the ocean is only rising in Boston

[ken5050]

and YOU really expect that that precise scientific explanation would bother liberals?

[muawiyah]

I'm running right outside and starting up all the family cars ~ may even put a brick on the accelerator so we can have those puppies running full blast.

If that's going to happen to Boston I see no incentive to hold back!

[DannyTN]

"I'm glad this is localized."

Boston's been sinking in more ways than one.

[cripplecreek]

The water rises more than a foot everytime Teddy K takes a dip.

[Gorzaloon]

Over the next 100 years, the February CLIMB report said that New England will experience a three to five degree Celsius change in average temperature, a 25 percent increase in precipitation, a 0.6 to one meter increase in sea level, and an uncertain degree of increase in the frequency and intensity of hurricanes and Nor'easters.

Hooray! Now I can switch from Early Girl hybrid tomatoes to Super Beefstake tomatoes!

[riri]

nothing really we can do to stop climatic change in the next centuries, even if we stop [greenhouse emissions] now,"

Really, now? Couldn't be that climate change has little to nothing to do with greenhouse gasses, now could it?

[ancient_geezer]

Sure glad I got may beach front property, in Colorado, before the rush sets in.

[jjmcgo]

If my mom holds on to her house in Newton a little longer, it will be oceanfront property.
And Cohasset will be Atlantis.

[F.J. Mitchell]

This has a simple explanation: The success of the Boston sports teams, has led to much more beer drinking and thus more flusing-ocean rises a foot-end of story.

[ClaireSolt]

Then I think we should do some irrigation projects to divert surplus water to places like Las Vegas and Darfur. Or do they want a separate and unrelated water crisis?

[LibFreeOrDie]

"...if no changes are made, an extreme storm could overflow the Charles River Dam and flood all of the Back Bay area."

So what! The Back Bay USED to be tidewater flats - hence its name. It was filled in during the 1800's. Think of it like the lowlands of Holland... From Wikipedia: "It is frequently observed that this would have been impossible under modern environmental regulations." So why are the enviros so upset now? You'd think they'd want it to revert to its natural state!