Posted on 04/30/2017 8:40:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A slow-moving emergency is lapping at California’s shores – climate-driven sea-level rise that experts now predict could elevate the water in coastal areas up to 10 feet in just 70 years, gobbling up beach front and overwhelming low-lying cities.
The speed with which polar ice is melting and glacier shelves are cracking off indicates to some scientists that once-unthinkable outer-range projections of sea rise may turn out to be too conservative. A knee-buckling new state-commissioned report warns that if nothing changes, California’s coastal waters will rise at a rate 30 to 40 times faster than in the last century.
The potential result: crippled economies, compromised public safety, submerged infrastructure, and a forced retreat from our iconic Pacific coast.
No state has done more than California to curb greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change and sea-level rise. But experts say that even if carbon reductions continue, residual warming of the ocean will continue unchecked, breeding surges that will impact the state’s coast and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
A consensus of scientific research makes catastrophic projections that, in the worst case, will be reality by the end of this century
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
could = nope
But this is only in California, right?
But, but, but............ Didn’t we just “learn” that we only have 10 years to get this under control? Like they said 20 years ago?
The Goebbels photo is so appropriate.
LOL!
Kewl ... maybe we will finally get our beachfront property here in Arizona.
Gee, so I guess the price of waterfront property is dropping, eh? [/s]
Maybe jerry browneye will build a wall to keep the water out!
Move to higher ground....duh....
If I had any interest at all in California land, I’d spread this fear and then buy up the cheap land as liberal fools panic.
If it wasn’t for global warming, Chicago would still be under a mile of ice.
Now hold on a minute - didn’t Ted Danson tell us the oceans would be dried up by the end of the last century? Are they drying up, or rising? They need to make up their minds.
Lex Luthor COULD set off a nuclear bomb on the San Andreas fault and cause California to slid into the Pacific Ocean.
Where is the “Aw geez, not this shit again” guy meme?
K-Street probably wrote this for San Jose Mercury News
SJMN used to report about technology.
Now its just a political arm of the Uber-Left
So says Julie Cart, pseudo Mensa!
California coast ocean level could rise 10 feet in 70 years
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And Republicans could get balls.
“Gee, so I guess the price of waterfront property is dropping, eh? [/s]”
That’s an interesting point. Somebody published an article with photos of beach front property owned by anthropomorphic climate change supporters. Why, if they believe their own position on the issue, do they still own the property? Wouldn’t logic dictate selling it as soon as possible? At the time we had only ten years before the coastlines would move inland and millions of people would die.
They always have that little disclaimer...why?
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