Saturday, August 15, 2015

Global Warming - Shorelines, Rising Sea Levels, Stronger Coastal Storms

Climate Central: Scientists Foresee Losses as Cities Fight Beach Erosion
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3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Things are developing as many of the climate models have predicted only at a much faster pace because of the effect of so called "positive feed backs" buried deeply in the complexity of the various system interactions. The seas are now rising at an accelerating pace, the UN IPCC panel's predication are already outdated and dangerously wrong on this issue. 20 ft. or more of sea rise in the next 50 yrs. is a strong possibility because the ice melting at the poles is really starting to scare the scientists. Collapse of major ice sheets is going to take place sooner then later.

12:05 PM
Jim Sande said...

As far as I can tell there are three distinct visions on global warming.

- The deniers and the different types of deniers like it's a socialist plot, god wouldn't let this happen, and the outright liars like big oil people and their political operatives, Ted Cruz comes to mind.

- Then there's the laissez-faire politicians like Obama who want to change all kinds of things but agree to limited steps that amount to a not enough. They don't want to step on too many corporate toes and talk a good talk but don't walk the walk.

- The third type are the scientists who are actually in a state of trauma and depression because they know the facts, they know what we are in for. They see the latest models, know the numbers, and are simultaneously cast as lunatics by the first and second tiers, the deniers and the laissez-faire politicians.

2:11 PM
Jim Sande said...

Let me finish my little one page analysis here. The news media only presents the cases of the first and second tiers - the deniers and the laissez-faire politicians. The media does this because the main stream news media is a for profit corporate outlet that needs revenue from tier one and two and can't really injure those business relationships. They hide this under the banner of balanced reporting. The exceptions appear to be FOX which is what it is. Then there are the alternative outlets that are willing to republish scientific work with explanations and the few news outlets that have made structural internal decisions to touch on the scientific work - that would be an outfit like the Guardian and occasionally the NYT.

2:23 PM

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