Time to Tax Coastal Zones Prone to Higher Sea Levels Coming

[Weatherman2020]

A 50% tax on all homes that may be flooded with the rising oceans. An estimated 25 million people live in these areas and we need to start getting them out now, the clock is ticking. Tax these homes silly so incentive is provided to initiate this migration.

All of these regions are blue politically, so little resistance of higher taxes is expected.

 

[Billy_Bob]

I am sure Obama will force them to buy flood insurance from his insurance buddies who are currently gouging us for Obamacare at triple the going rates..

 

[Crick]

Obama has buddies in the insurance industry? Is that why he started the process wanting a single payer system? Is that why he forced them to keep dependents on till 26 years of age? Is that why he stopped them from rejecting pre-existing conditions? Is that why he forced them to use large group rates for everyone? If you're going to base your argument on a blatantly false premise (that Obama has friends in the insurance industry), be expected to have the whole thing tossed out in the trash where it belongs.

PS: Let's see a reputable source that says medical insurance premiums have tripled. Mine certainly have not.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Rising sea levels are already beginning to seep into American shorelines, with flooding in Florida already under way. But low-lying Louisiana is one of the states that could be most adversely affected by global climate change. For the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Native Americans who live there, climate change is no longer a political football, but a very harsh reality. They are fleeing their island reservation because of rising water levels.

The group has called the Isle de Jean Charles home for a century, but are now moving inland with the help of $48 million in federal assistance. Over the last 60 years, the group has lost 98 percent of its land to coastal flooding, erosion, and other effects of rising sea levels. The entire population is now packed into an area less than a square mile, and a population that once numbered around 400 is now down to 100, as the climate issues have led to a diaspora to higher ground

An American Town Is Abandoned Because of Rising Seas

 

[Weatherman2020]

Rising sea levels are already beginning to seep into American shorelines, with flooding in Florida already under way. But low-lying Louisiana is one of the states that could be most adversely affected by global climate change. For the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Native Americans who live there, climate change is no longer a political football, but a very harsh reality. They are fleeing their island reservation because of rising water levels.

The group has called the Isle de Jean Charles home for a century, but are now moving inland with the help of $48 million in federal assistance. Over the last 60 years, the group has lost 98 percent of its land to coastal flooding, erosion, and other effects of rising sea levels. The entire population is now packed into an area less than a square mile, and a population that once numbered around 400 is now down to 100, as the climate issues have led to a diaspora to higher ground

An American Town Is Abandoned Because of Rising Seas

Hilarious.

Only problem is the sea levels at best have risen 3mm in the past century. That's 1/8 of an inch.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Rising sea levels are already beginning to seep into American shorelines, with flooding in Florida already under way. But low-lying Louisiana is one of the states that could be most adversely affected by global climate change. For the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Native Americans who live there, climate change is no longer a political football, but a very harsh reality. They are fleeing their island reservation because of rising water levels.

The group has called the Isle de Jean Charles home for a century, but are now moving inland with the help of $48 million in federal assistance. Over the last 60 years, the group has lost 98 percent of its land to coastal flooding, erosion, and other effects of rising sea levels. The entire population is now packed into an area less than a square mile, and a population that once numbered around 400 is now down to 100, as the climate issues have led to a diaspora to higher ground

An American Town Is Abandoned Because of Rising Seas

Hilarious.

Only problem is the sea levels at best have risen 3mm in the past century. That's 1/8 of an inch.

You should go talk to the people who left and tell them that you say they were wrong to flee rising waters OK

 

[Weatherman2020]

Rising sea levels are already beginning to seep into American shorelines, with flooding in Florida already under way. But low-lying Louisiana is one of the states that could be most adversely affected by global climate change. For the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Native Americans who live there, climate change is no longer a political football, but a very harsh reality. They are fleeing their island reservation because of rising water levels.

The group has called the Isle de Jean Charles home for a century, but are now moving inland with the help of $48 million in federal assistance. Over the last 60 years, the group has lost 98 percent of its land to coastal flooding, erosion, and other effects of rising sea levels. The entire population is now packed into an area less than a square mile, and a population that once numbered around 400 is now down to 100, as the climate issues have led to a diaspora to higher ground

An American Town Is Abandoned Because of Rising Seas

Hilarious.

Only problem is the sea levels at best have risen 3mm in the past century. That's 1/8 of an inch.

You should go talk to the people who left and tell them that you say they were wrong to flee rising waters OK

Try sinking land.

 

[Crick]

Try both.

 

[SSDD]

Rising sea levels are already beginning to seep into American shorelines, with flooding in Florida already under way. But low-lying Louisiana is one of the states that could be most adversely affected by global climate change. For the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Native Americans who live there, climate change is no longer a political football, but a very harsh reality. They are fleeing their island reservation because of rising water levels.

The group has called the Isle de Jean Charles home for a century, but are now moving inland with the help of $48 million in federal assistance. Over the last 60 years, the group has lost 98 percent of its land to coastal flooding, erosion, and other effects of rising sea levels. The entire population is now packed into an area less than a square mile, and a population that once numbered around 400 is now down to 100, as the climate issues have led to a diaspora to higher ground

An American Town Is Abandoned Because of Rising Seas

Hilarious.

Only problem is the sea levels at best have risen 3mm in the past century. That's 1/8 of an inch.

You should go talk to the people who left and tell them that you say they were wrong to flee rising waters OK

Are they fleeing rising waters, or are they fleeing perfectly natural geological events like beach erosion, or sinking sea beds, etc. There are plenty of old photos of identifiable landmarks in Florida and other coastal regions going back to the earliest days of photography....look them up some time and compare them to modern photos....and see how idiotic your histrionics regarding rising sea levels is.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Shocking new study foresees a swamped planet as the GOP revels in illogic

The Post’s View: 2015: A year of progress and buffoonery on climate change

Jason Samenow: Global warming in 2015 made weather more extreme, and it’s likely to get worse

Fred Hiatt: Even ExxonMobil says climate change is real. So why won’t the GOP?

Michael Gerson: We need a miracle on climate change

 

[Wyatt earp]

Rising sea levels are already beginning to seep into American shorelines, with flooding in Florida already under way. But low-lying Louisiana is one of the states that could be most adversely affected by global climate change. For the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Native Americans who live there, climate change is no longer a political football, but a very harsh reality. They are fleeing their island reservation because of rising water levels.

The group has called the Isle de Jean Charles home for a century, but are now moving inland with the help of $48 million in federal assistance. Over the last 60 years, the group has lost 98 percent of its land to coastal flooding, erosion, and other effects of rising sea levels. The entire population is now packed into an area less than a square mile, and a population that once numbered around 400 is now down to 100, as the climate issues have led to a diaspora to higher ground

An American Town Is Abandoned Because of Rising Seas

Thank God they stopped driving cars and burning fossil fuel thousands of year ago, when will we ever learn?

 

[Wyatt earp]

 

[SSDD]

Shocking new study foresees a swamped planet as the GOP revels in illogic

The Post’s View: 2015: A year of progress and buffoonery on climate change

Jason Samenow: Global warming in 2015 made weather more extreme, and it’s likely to get worse

Fred Hiatt: Even ExxonMobil says climate change is real. So why won’t the GOP?

Michael Gerson: We need a miracle on climate change

Let me guess...it is based on a computer model...the very models that have been failing miserably for decades....I have some beach front property just outside of Albuquerque if you are interested....

 

[Crick]

Projections into the future require computer models. Observations of the past do not. Your treatment of computer models, however, as, de facto, flawed without exception, is the position of an ignorant fool.

 

[Votto]

A 50% tax on all homes that may be flooded with the rising oceans. An estimated 25 million people live in these areas and we need to start getting them out now, the clock is ticking. Tax these homes silly so incentive is provided to initiate this migration.

All of these regions are blue politically, so little resistance of higher taxes is expected.

Scoff if you like, but taxes solve all of our problems.

 

[Crick]

I disagree that anyone buying coastal property prior to, say, the last five years, could be argued to have knowingly bought in to a risk of flooding. The case was there, but public opinion is still weaker than it ought to be. However, just getting near the coast already puts them into a high risk area if there is the slightest chance that a severe hurricane or typhoon could damage the holding. They are almost undoubtedly already paying enhanced insurance premiums. I would not support anything beyond a minor immediate increase due to the threat of flooding by sea level rise and what is eventually charged could easily be phased in over 2-3 decades given the predicted rates of rise. Of course this would not be just an increase from flooding as increased sea levels increases all the other risks that being on the coast presents. So all their enhancements are likely to have to slowly increase. You could also treat new and established owners differently to discourage movement into threatened areas. This will slowly lower property values and thin populations. Then the state can come in and begin accumulating properties which could be converted into coastal parks to minimize infrastructure-at-risk and provided added physical barriers to future flooding and wave surge.