• Up to 13 Million Americans Are at Risk of Being Washed Away
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[QUOTE](Bloomberg) -- Tyrrell County sits just inland from North Carolina’s Outer Banks barrier islands. With 3,600 people living and farming along 400 square miles, it’s an ecologically rich enclave. It also ranks number one among 319 U.S. coastal counties facing long-term risk from rising seas. By 2100, according to a new study, 94 percent of Tyrrell's future population may be at risk from encroaching seawater. The swelling ocean may threaten the homes of up to 13.1 million coast-dwelling Americans by the end of this century, according to the study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change. Led by Mathew Hauer, a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia, the research is novel because it combines population projections with sea-level rise projections. Tyrrell County leads the country only by percentage of its population at risk. The largest absolute numbers of people at risk are in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, in Florida. These two areas would make up 25 percent of all people impacted nationally—or more than 3.5 million—if waters rise by six feet, which is the most extreme scenario the study's authors anticipated. That threat has made the southern Florida climate story the center of much attention in recent years. More than 100,000 people could be displaced in each of 31 counties in the six-foot rise scenario. [/QUOTE] [url]http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/up-to-13-million-americans-are-at-risk-of-being-washed-away/ar-AAgLxqm?ocid=spartandhp[/url]
Pff, you know how many Americans live downstream from an old dam? Lots Anyways the GOP who control a surprising amount of in danger States, refuse to even acknowledge the problem
[QUOTE=Sableye;49933565]Pff, you know how many Americans live downstream from an old dam? Lots Anyways the GOP who control a surprising amount of in danger States, refuse to even acknowledge the problem[/QUOTE] Even worse are the conservatives who acknowledge that the climate is changing, but deny that it is due to human intervention, and naturally they figure if we didn't make it happen, we obviously don't have the ability to change it, so we should just conduct business as usual.
[QUOTE=J Paul;49933784]Even worse are the conservatives who acknowledge that the climate is changing, but deny that it is due to human intervention, and naturally they figure if we didn't make it happen, we obviously don't have the ability to change it, so we should just conduct business as usual.[/QUOTE] Global warming is all apart of gods plan. He wanted us with a CO2 rich atmosphere and plastic.
[QUOTE=J Paul;49933784]Even worse are the conservatives who acknowledge that the climate is changing, but deny that it is due to human intervention, and naturally they figure if we didn't make it happen, we obviously don't have the ability to change it, so we should just conduct business as usual.[/QUOTE] I'm still pretty pissed about rubio, his stance has been, 'it's happening but I won't do anything about it because that would ruin the economy!' What kind of self defeatist attitude is that?
oh hi most of louisiana had severe flooding, sucks.
[QUOTE=Map in a box;49935145]oh hi most of louisiana had severe flooding, sucks.[/QUOTE] Yeah you guys aren't doing so well. That's what I thought this was about at first. My brother is going to school in Natchitoches and it's rough. Nowhere near Monroe or Shreveport though.
fun fact: florida still has no plans on how to fix this because the deadline is a few years ahead and the goverment banned any mention of climate change/global warming in official meetings/emails/reports. [url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article12983720.html]i'm serious.[/url]
[QUOTE=Sableye;49935136]What kind of self defeatist attitude is that?[/QUOTE] Capitalism?
It really rustles my jimmies that so many important people seem to think climate change is some kind of hoax/propaganda. It angers me that these people will only change their minds once we start losing lives and property to this. It shouldnt take this much to get policy makers to listen to the scientific community.
[QUOTE=Sableye;49935136]I'm still pretty pissed about rubio, his stance has been, 'it's happening but I won't do anything about it because that would ruin the economy!' What kind of self defeatist attitude is that?[/QUOTE] It's funny because coastal cities getting flooded will ruin the economy more than anything.
[QUOTE=Wii60;49935167]fun fact: florida still has no plans on how to fix this because the deadline is a few years ahead and the goverment banned any mention of climate change/global warming in official meetings/emails/reports. [url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article12983720.html]i'm serious.[/url][/QUOTE] Maybe if we start moving stuff out of Florida now we'll have enough time before shit hits the fan.
[QUOTE=Electrocuter;49935493]It's funny because coastal cities getting flooded will ruin the economy more than anything.[/QUOTE] Short term gains over long term sustainability and a bunch of rich old dudes running the mentality that they'll be dead before anything happens so why not profit now and not care about what the next generation will have to deal with?
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