To: i-node who wrote (1005246 ) 3/10/2017 1:06:09 AM From: Wharf Rat Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574207 "They've hidden their true agenda . The zealots want to destroy capitalism and take over the world's economy." Oh, darn. That doesn't sound good. Do they also want you to live in a stone age cave? The boom is here: U.S. solar experiences record-smashing year 200,000 people are working in an industry that is revolutionizing the energy sector.thinkprogress.org = The U.S. is about to lose a trillion dollars in coastal property values Trump isn’t helping. ...As I’ve written for years , values will will start dropping before we hit a few feet of sea level rise. They will crash when a large fraction of the financial community?—?mortgage bankers and opinion-makers, along with a smaller but substantial fraction of the public?—?realize that it is too late for us to stop catastrophic sea level rise. Sean Becketti, the chief economist for mortgage giant Freddie Mac, warned v nearly a year ago this scenario is coming faster than expected. “Some residents will cash out early and suffer minimal losses. Others will not be so lucky,” Becketti said. Even before Trump was elected, the process over devaluation had started. As the New York Times reported in November, “Nationally, median home prices in areas at high risk for flooding are still 4.4 percent below what they were 10 years ago, while home prices in low-risk areas are up 29.7 percent over the same period.”thinkprogress.org "humans are fully responsible for 'the speed that climate change is happening'," More than fully; the planet would be cooling without us.The studies are Tett et al. 2000 (T00, dark blue), Meehl et al. 2004 (M04, red), Stone et al. 2007 (S07, green), Lean and Rind 2008 (LR08, purple), Huber and Knutti 2011 (HK11, light blue), Gillett et al. 2012 (G12, orange), Wigley and Santer 2012 (WG12, dark green), Jones et al. 2013 (J13, pink), IPCC AR5 (IPCC, light green), and Ribes et al. 2016 (R16, light purple). The numbers in this summary are best estimates from each study; uncertainty ranges can be found in the original research.