iceberg
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can't speak for everyone but i carry doubts asYou called me to this thread, so I came and I commented. I would not have come into a global warming thread because I do not know a whole lot about it. I give my trust to the scientists and the thermometers world wide that agree the planet is warming rapidly, the ice is melting and (perhaps entirely coincidentally?) there is flooding now in low lying coastal areas where that was only seen before during extreme high tides.If that was your attempt at an explanation for why erosion causes repeated flooding, I think you failed.I didn't hear them lying anywhere, K9. I read your article, too, which talks about erosion, not flooding. The erosion of beaches is a big deal down there, where tourism is king. Saving beaches is important. I don't understand what makes you think that erosion of a beach would cause a strip of road to flood at high tide each winter? If you read the article, there is no doubt that the ocean is beginning to creep back over the Keys. That is not caused by erosion. Coastal cities everywhere are seeing it.See OldLady the New York Times is a lying rag of bullshit. Read their article in the OP. Guess what? The Keys aren't sinking under "rising waters". The problem is with EROSION. I've provided an excerpt and a link:
There is a total of 36.3 miles of beaches that line the Florida Keys and attract both tourists and marine life. Unfortunately, 10.2 miles of this, or 28% of the beaches that line the Keys are deemed critically eroded.
Erosion - Coastal Issues in the Florida Keys
Yea? When are they going to be flooded by, 2160?
Erosion eats away at the bottom, drags dirt and sand out to sea which then undermines that which is above it and causes it to collapse and flood.
Is it your belief that the Gulf of Mexico has risen 3-5 feet in recent years?
I don't understand why the right needs to contradict and deny that. Do ALL of you have stock in BP? What on earth is your problem with doing what's necessary to limit C02 emissions? We have noggins for a reason. Try using yours.
1) i do believe things are changing. but i do believe they've been changing since the planet was first created and will continue to change. with or without us. the incessant need to blame mankind is ignorant to me. that said, yes we should do more to clean up what we do know is "bad" - plastic in our oceans and affecting our eco-system. lets put money into that and not into giving it to other countries to not do anything.
2) in my own lifetime both extremes have been predicted. and were wrong.
3) al gore. he fudged enough data to try and prove a point (right or now) and that cast doubt on everything.