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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (22236)	6/21/2017 11:52:34 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 355979

" is "providfe" related to "confefe?" " Yes; shorthand for "we provide free covfefe". "assumes we're not going to build a dike around existing towns " That might work in some places. Miami, AKA "New Atlantis" is built on porous ground, so that won't work. I keep trying to figure out how to build a dam across the Golden Gate, and still remove the water flowing thru the Delta. I think SLR will be 2-3 M this century. "we will have refugees. Is that a given?" Pretty much; also from places built in the desert, like Vegas.... Climate change, global warming don't have to doom U.S. coastal cities In Potsdam, Germany, climate scientist Anders Levermann is chatting about how the world will change in a future of rising seas when he is asked about Miami. “Miami? Miami is already doomed,” he says. The sea level expert at Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, pauses, then starts to correct himself. “That’s probably not fair,” he says. “Miami is, ah. . . . No, it’s just doomed.” Among climate scientists, Miami has earned the nickname “New Atlantis,” a reference to the legendary lost continent that slipped below the sea. But Miami is hardly alone among at-risk cities. A World Bank study listed it second among cities facing a risk of “overall cost of damage.” It trailed only Guangzhou in southern China, and it’s expected to fare only a bit better than New York and New Orleans. Olsen says there is no simple and one-size-fits-all solution to the problems that sea level rise will bring. There is no way the United States will be able to surround all of its cities with sea walls. “The United States is just too big. There’s too much coastline,” he says. The U.S. has about 12,000 miles of ocean and sea coastline. By comparison, the Netherlands protects 270 miles of seacoast. The American reality is that some cities will probably be sacrificed. Parts of cities certainly will be sacrificed.