CURRENT EVENTS - Easter - April 24

Silence Dogood said:
Ocean levels are rising so you buy a home on the water? Thats just dumb
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1. It's no stupider for liberals than anyone else.
2. Where are these homes being built or purchased? In the west, the main effect of climate change has been wildfires. Is Florida beach property being consumed by liberals? Buying anything in Florida right now seems dicey, but on the water is silly. Duh. Who is doing that?
3. Y'all need to read more about what rising ocean levels mean. This whole "let's build sea walls for our cities" nonsense is just that. If ocean levels rise a foot, let's say, you don't need a seawall around your city. You need to worry about your coastline and farmland washing away. That's the rising seas scenario: it's not that Vietnam is going to permanently sink under the ocean -- it's that large portions of the country will be effectively useless because the soil will have washed away and the place will flood regularly from ordinary storms.
 
BlueSteel said:
Do you dispute that oceans are rising? Just trying to gauge how seriously I should be taking your posts moving forward. K thx.
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Do you understand the the rise in the water level is less than the average tidal surge? If the waves aren't currently breaking over your front steps, they still won't be and it'll be a while before that changes.

Fwiw, it doesn't matter how seriously you take any posts when it's so clear that you can't possibly comprehend them.
 
finesse said:
Do you understand the the rise in the water level is less than the average tidal surge? If the waves aren't currently breaking over your front steps, they still won't be and it'll be a while before that changes.
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This is only true if you are talking about a steady state -- i.e. what you see on a daily basis. But in a storm, six inches of extra water can make a big difference, especially if (as is the case) the water is particularly warm. Also those six inches contribute over time to more rapid coastal degredation.

I think we have a hydrologist on the board who would be considerably more knowledgeable about this than the rest of us.
 
superrific said:
This is only true if you are talking about a steady state -- i.e. what you see on a daily basis. But in a storm, six inches of extra water can make a big difference, especially if (as is the case) the water is particularly warm. Also those six inches contribute over time to more rapid coastal degredation.

I think we have a hydrologist on the board who would be considerably more knowledgeable about this than the rest of us.
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Yeah, I understand a lot of that. Now explain to me why I would offer up a nuanced argument to the mental midget.

Fwiw, I lived on or spent enough time to know that only suckers want beach front. "If you can see the ocean, the ocean can see you." The most practical places to live are on the mainland side behind a barrier island.
 
CFordUNC said:


I’m sure one of our board MAGAts or recreational contrarians will be right along to call out this wasteful use of taxpayer dollars. Any moment now!!! They are so opposed to wasteful government spending of taxpayer dollars, and they’re definitely absolutely certainly not hypocrites, so they will definitely be right along to criticize this!
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I know my mind is made up, so put away your makeup
Told you once, I won't tell you again, it's a bad way
 
superrific said:
1. It's no stupider for liberals than anyone else.
2. Where are these homes being built or purchased? In the west, the main effect of climate change has been wildfires. Is Florida beach property being consumed by liberals? Buying anything in Florida right now seems dicey, but on the water is silly. Duh. Who is doing that?
3. Y'all need to read more about what rising ocean levels mean. This whole "let's build sea walls for our cities" nonsense is just that. If ocean levels rise a foot, let's say, you don't need a seawall around your city. You need to worry about your coastline and farmland washing away. That's the rising seas scenario: it's not that Vietnam is going to permanently sink under the ocean -- it's that large portions of the country will be effectively useless because the soil will have washed away and the place will flood regularly from ordinary storms.
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Al gore was pushing a 20 foot rise in sea level hysteria.
 
finesse said:
Do you understand the the rise in the water level is less than the average tidal surge? If the waves aren't currently breaking over your front steps, they still won't be and it'll be a while before that changes.

Fwiw, it doesn't matter how seriously you take any posts when it's so clear that you can't possibly comprehend them.
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Of course I understand all of that. Unfortunately, you completely missed my point in your haste to flex on someone on the interwebs—to make yourself feel bigger than you are, I assume. Now I'm wasting my own time to explain to your dumb ass that I took Dogood's post to be a denial of sea-level rise. Whether it's an inch or a foot per century doesn't fucking matter. I just wanted to know if Dogood is one of those hurr-de-hurr wackos who thinks climate change is a "hoax." If he is, then I have no more reason to follow his drivel.

But thanks for wasting my fucking time to have to explain that to you, finesse. Have a blessed day.
 
Silence Dogood said:
Al gore was pushing a 20 foot rise in sea level hysteria.
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What Al Gore was pushing 20 years ago is of zero relevance. Your response illustrates one of the main problems with MAGA. You are so addicted to whataboutism that you instinctively reach for it even when it's absurd. That Al Gore said something wrong in one sentence in a documentary full of truth is -- I mean, nobody can take that bullshit seriously.
 
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