Sea-level doom from Antarctic melting

I had hopes for Howard Dean also, I think he threatened to regulate the media? Then they exaggerated "the Dean scream" to make him look bad.

Mark Twain is good

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

It's easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But then I repeat myself.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

I'm not as cynical as George Carlin was but he did tell the truth

 

It's easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled.
I like that one, so true ..... Remember the tobacco industries effort they put into lying to everyone about the affects of smoking, then the cotton industry about the dangers of cannabis hemp? How many still believe the lies rather than accept they were fooled ......

T1 Terry

 

When has seal level ever remained constant?

 

At least half the time it was on the rise, and about half the time it has fallen.

 

It had been relatively stable for several millennia. The last time it was changing this rapidly was during the rapid glacial meltoff that marked the end of the last Ice Age. But then it was rising from a level more than 100 meters lower than today.

 

If this sounds like denial, it's not; but the carbon cycle is unsustainably out of balance.
But it's foolish to try to make the climate static. It never has been in 4.5 billion years.

 

Who was aiming for static?

The speed of this anthropomorphic climate change is the great concern, exceeded only by certain cataclysms such as asteroid impacts, and the exit from (but not entrance to) Ice Ages, or at least the most recent Ice Age. Over Earth history, it appears that most other climate changes have been far slower.

Fast climate changes appear to be associated with mass extinctions. Biological evolution doesn't adapt nearly as well to these speeds.

 

Fast and accelerating as well?

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So lets all panic.

 

Whenever you quote me, my first thought is "what now...". You never disappoint.

 

I'm advising our grandchildren to buy at altitude

 

Based on the slow rate, I would change to a minimum 100 ft above sea level. Future sea view property outside of hurricane surge range.

Bob Wilson

 

Doesn't look like a quote to me.

 

Post #90 appears to be a post, made by you, quoting Mendel.

 

I realized the "rising sea level" warnings were a load of horse manure when the "smartest President in history" (Obama) purchased an $11 million ocean-front estate in Martha's Vineyard.

If he ain't scared, neither am I!!!!

 

CalTopo's map shows that house at an elevation of 7 feet. That is "high elevation" compared to places like Miami Beach and New Orleans.

By 2050, which is beyond Obama's and my average remaining life expectancies (and right at Michelle's expectancy), the water level is projected to rise no more than 1 foot, so he won't be losing enjoyment of that property during his able-bodied life, before needing to go into assisted living or a nursing home.

By 2100, the high-end projections would have sea level lapping at the door mat, but the mid- and low-end projections still leave it usable. So his grandchildren are the ones to have first-hand concern.

Plenty of people want to leave their grandchildren a better world, not a more-troubled world.