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Who Is Most To Blame For Climate Change?
NPR ^ | July 24, 2014 | Barbra J King

Posted on 07/24/2014 10:15:40 AM PDT by lbryce

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To: lbryce
Norfolk is the place "where normal tides have risen 1.5 feet over the past century and the sea is rising faster than anywhere else on the East Coast."

Isn't this akin to saying "When I fill my bathtub the left side rises higher than the right side."

21 posted on 07/24/2014 10:31:01 AM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: lbryce

The climate changes. It has been changing ever since there was a climate. There are natural mechanism that are responsible for the changes. To claim that human activity is now responsible for the change, is to deny the forces of nature.


22 posted on 07/24/2014 10:32:21 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: SampleMan; a fool in paradise
The answer is obvious!!!

Federal Grants


23 posted on 07/24/2014 10:32:35 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: SampleMan

and..... the plates are moving.


24 posted on 07/24/2014 10:34:27 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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25 posted on 07/24/2014 10:35:30 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: lbryce

The Sun!


26 posted on 07/24/2014 10:36:17 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: lbryce
Who? I don't think so. The climate changes constantly. As in all the time, every second of every day. It was changing long be for we arrived and will continue changing long after we have died out. And that we will die out is a fact. Just ask the dinosaurs.
27 posted on 07/24/2014 10:36:30 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Phlap

I blame watermelons. Instead of working with energy groups and captains of industry who could successfully implement conservation policies which both protect the environment and still be profitable, he watermelons took a “take no prisoner “ approach and caused this.

In laymens terms, “unintended consequences.”


28 posted on 07/24/2014 10:42:34 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (GM is dead and Al Queada is alive.)
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To: SampleMan

” If sea level rise isn’t equally distributed there can only be two reasons.”

A third reason is salinity, which is gravity-related. Where a freshwater river runs into the ocean, the water level will be higher as measured by satellite, because the fresh water is not as dense. The opposite happens when seawater is more saline than the average.

But for the most part, the level is close to the same all over.

The science deniers will deliberately confuse erosion, ground sinking, and storm surges as “proof” that the seas are rising and we must adopt a global communist economy to stop it.


29 posted on 07/24/2014 10:44:41 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: lbryce
"if current trends hold, by the end of this century, I'll be 145, my blood pressure will be 430 over 180, my cholesterol will be over 800, I'll weigh 1/2 of a ton and my nearsightedness will have corrected my farsightedness.
30 posted on 07/24/2014 10:46:07 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: cripplecreek

Like blaming someone for gravity or adiabatic expansion.


31 posted on 07/24/2014 10:46:18 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

They said it is rising faster because the land is sinking.

Climate change causes land to sink?

What a non-story. Or out and out fraud which is usually the case.


32 posted on 07/24/2014 10:49:37 AM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: DBrow

Yes, salinity would also be a factor. But we’re told that AGW causes less rain, so we can rule that out ;-)


33 posted on 07/24/2014 10:51:42 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: lbryce

Climate change stories would be best reported in MAD magazine.


34 posted on 07/24/2014 10:53:10 AM PDT by oldtech
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100 years of sea level data at Northfork Naval Base

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/est/est_station.shtml?stnid=8638660


35 posted on 07/24/2014 10:58:36 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: lbryce

the SUN


36 posted on 07/24/2014 10:58:39 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: joshua c
Climate change causes land to sink?

This kind can:

However, I checked Google Earth and I don't see glaciers anywhere around Norfolk. So I'd say it is natural settling of the sedimentary deposits that Norfolk rests upon. A minor detail the author of this screed glosses over.

37 posted on 07/24/2014 10:59:42 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: shove_it

I think they concentrate on fixing the sinking land problem and report back. It may be evil George Bush digging a huge sink hole under the city like he did in New Orleans before evil Karl Rove cranked up his hurricane machine. About as probable as global warming, but either way it sounds like a good reason to start the looting.


38 posted on 07/24/2014 11:00:12 AM PDT by Old North State
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To: lbryce

This is simple pot banging.
I don’t have the time to explore this in detail right now but this area has a number of tidal gauges which give very different rates of increase. The global rate of increase is about 20 cm per 100 years or 2mm per year. This area has a higher rate of rise than that but it is definitely not uniform, with Sewall Point being a distinct outlier. The chart at the link gives you all the local tidal gauges. If you click on them you can see the data for that location.
http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/299.php


39 posted on 07/24/2014 11:02:37 AM PDT by bjc (Show me the data!)
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To: lbryce

Mister Freeze


40 posted on 07/24/2014 11:04:15 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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