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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1067068)	4/27/2018 12:20:01 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578768

"you exhibit a remarkable degree of naivety combined with very poor instincts." In related DOD news,... Rising Seas Will Render Many Pacific Islands Uninhabitable by Mid-Century, Study Says By Pam Wright8 hours ago weather.com 00:46 Pacific Islands to be Uninhabitable by 2050 According to a study commissioned by the U.S. Defense Department, many Pacific islands will be uninhabitable by mid-century. At a Glance Many Pacific atoll islands will be rendered uninhabitable between the 2030s and 2060s, researchers say. Flooding from rising seas will impact their drinking water. Island inhabitants will have to move or significant financial investments will need to be made for new infrastructure. The northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Caroline Islands, Cook Islands, Gilbert Islands, Line Islands, Society Islands, Spratly Islands, Maldives and Seychelles are threatened. Wave-driven flooding from rising seas will leave many Pacific islands uninhabitable by mid-century, a new study says. Many atoll islands will face annual overwash flooding that will impact their drinking water supplies, according to the study published Wednesday in Science Advances. "This annual flooding will result in the islands becoming uninhabitable because of frequent damage to infrastructure and the inability of their freshwater aquifers to recover between overwash events," according to the study. The authors predict that at current greenhouse gas emission rates, most of these Pacific atoll islands will be rendered uninhabitable between the 2030s and 2060. Island inhabitants will be forced to move or the governments will have to make significant financial investments for new infrastructure to provide water to residents. The study was commissioned by the U.S. Defense Department because many of these atoll islands are home to American military sites. Wave-driven flooding and overwash on Roi-Namur Atoll. (Peter Swarzenski/U.S. Geological Survey) The scientists used climate projections with weather and wave modeling to study the impacts of rising seas on Roi-Namur Island in the Marshall Island's Kwajalein Atoll, home to the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, according to a press release. They say the study is relevant to thousands of other atoll islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans, including the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Caroline Islands, Cook Islands, Gilbert Islands, Line Islands, Society Islands, Spratly Islands, Maldives and Seychelles. “The tipping point when potable groundwater on the majority of atoll islands will be unavailable is projected to be reached no later than the middle of the 21st century,” said Curt Storlazzi, United States Geological Survey geologist and lead author of the new report. (MORE: Record Amount of Microplastic Found in Arctic Sea Ice) Storlazzi noted that other studies have looked primarily at rising seas alone without considering wave-driven flooding and overwash. “Such information is key to assess multiple hazards and prioritize efforts to reduce risk and increase the resiliency of atoll islands' communities around the globe,” Storlazzi said. The authors note that the primary source of freshwater for populated atoll islands is rain that soaks into the ground. Overwash events allow salt water to contaminate the freshwater aquifer. “Rainfall later in the year is not enough to flush out the saltwater and refresh the island’s water supply before the next year’s storms arrive repeating the overwash events,” said Stephen Gingerich, co-author of the report and USGS hydrologist. weather.com

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1067068)	4/27/2018 7:40:02 AM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1578768

Poor instincts? Really? Let's put aside global warming and its causes for now. If we isolate the issue simply to pollution, why do you not desire clean water, air, and land? I would think that's one topic 100% of thinking humans would agree on. That's my perspective. We only have one planet we can live on right now. We need to take care of it. There is plenty of irrefutable scientific proof that pollution causes millions of asthma deaths. Pollution of our water supplies causes millions of deaths as well. Our land is getting polluted as well, when they bury waste products like coal ash from fossil fuels. We don't have to agree on whether or not humans are causing global warming, but to me, that's almost irrelevant. I want clean water, air, and land. In fact, we have a right to that. Corporations do not have the right to create externalities such as pollution and socialize the losses from that, while they profit. Those externalities should be internalized into their costs, primarily through clean processes and cleanup mandated. That's not poor instincts. That's called self-preservation. Whoever doesn't believe in clean water, air, or land, should go live in Flint, Michigan, or Beijing for a little while. It's not pleasant and it will shorten your life. I plan to live a long and healthy life. So on this topic, I am aligned with liberals. I just don't believe their solutions are correct, because they end up using the topic to promote their socialistic ideals, instead of really trying to solve the problem, as we saw with the shitty Paris Accords.

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1067068)	4/27/2018 6:31:48 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578768

“Looking at manufacturing our product in Mexico. Any additional tariffs on Chinese products will impact the number of employees due to lost sales” “Trade talks with China decreased our profitability. We’ve recovered most of that now, but short term impact is real and continues to linger” “We are working with a potential partner in China who would like to import our equipment. The current environment adds uncertainty to this opportunity.” “Initially, the future prospect of higher steel and aluminum prices forced manufacturers, such as ours, to buy material in advance of the need, otherwise face a price increase. That caused a run on available material, to which now there is a shortage. This is causing raw material cost increases to which we are having to absorb. We expect a negative short term effect on profitability until we can hopefully pass on the higher cost to our customers. In the meantime imported material costs are not changing and are negatively effecting competitiveness of domestically produced products.” https://www.kansascityfed.org/~/media/files/publicat/research/indicatorsdata/mfg/2018/2018apr26mfg.pdf?la=en Sound like winning?