Posted on 07/27/2016 10:51:11 AM PDT by rktman
Rising sea levels due to hurricanes and tidal flooding intensified by climate change will put military bases along the U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast at risk, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Nonprofit group the Union of Concerned Scientists analyzed 18 military installations that represent more than 120 coastal bases nationwide to weigh the impact of climate change on their operations.
Faster rates of sea level rises in the second half of this century could mean that tidal flooding will become a daily occurrence for some installations, pushing useable land needed for military training and testing into tidal zones, said the report titled "The U.S. Military on the Front Lines of Rising Seas."
By 2050, most of these sites will be hit by more than 10 times the number of floods than at present, the report said, and at least half of them will experience daily floods.
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“Next up, increase in clouds leads to more shadows.”
an issue of DEEP concern to groundhog protectors and weather fans alike. How will Punxatawny Phil be correctly able to forecast?
And according to Al Gore’s book “Earth in the Balance” the studies were conclusive that Florida would be under water by now.
Was gonna say. BOATS FLOAT!
This relatively obscure observation was omitted from our models.
Is he early this year? How many more weeks of summer anyway?
Well that 'splains it.
Don't confuse "nonprofit" with "nonpartisan".
That’s why we left FL so we could get to higher ground before the rush. :)
The liberals wants us worry about an imaginary enemy (global warming) while ignoring a real enemy (islamic terrorism). This is indeed a lesson being played out in propaganda techniques.
Liberals should be on board with rising sea levels now.
Rising sea levels will wipe out the military and rich people’s beach mansions.
Win-win.
Seems like plenty of time to move the bases to higher ground.
Or the declaration of “non-profit” to mean that somebody isn’t getting some money. Didn’t I read the other day that the clintoon crime foundation spend about 80% on administrative costs?
Is a “daily flood” more commonly called “high tide”??????
Total and complete BS!
what total b.s. the liberals push
sea level has risen since the “Little Ice Age” of the 17th century, but is at a steady, miniscule, natural rate of increase which has not chanaged.
Lying libs, including their pet scientists, pretend that there is someething new and dangerous. There is not....
“Is he early this year? How many more weeks of summer anyway?”
Algore says 32 weeks of summer left...but he tends to exaggerate, knowhatimean?
Just 18? I thought the entire East and West coast was going to be under the ocean? I thought that Florida was going to be completely covered?
Oh wow, looks like Kerry was right! It’s absolutely vital that we shut down the AC at the state department right now! Think of the children!
I live in Jacksonville up on the bluff in the Riverside area. I am actively looking forward to my eventual beach front property. ;^)
And think about all the greenhouse gasses put out by all those MRAP’s owned by every police department in the country! Time to put thermite on the hoods of all those boys, think of the polar bears!
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