Miami Finds Itself Ankle-Deep in Climate Change Debate

[riqster]

In a state run by climate change deniers:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/us/florida-finds-itself-in-the-eye-of-the-storm-on-climate-change.html?hpw&rref=us&_r=0&referrer=

May 7, 2014
MIAMI BEACH — The sunny-day flooding was happening again. During high tide one recent afternoon, Eliseo Toussaint looked out the window of his Alton Road laundromat and watched bottle-green saltwater seep from the gutters, fill the street and block the entrance to his front door.

Down the block at an electronics store it is even worse. Jankel Aleman, a salesman, keeps plastic bags and rubber bands handy to wrap around his feet when he trudges from his car to the store through ever-rising waters.

A new scientific report on global warming released this week, the National Climate Assessment, named Miami as one of the cities most vulnerable to severe damage as a result of rising sea levels. Alton Road, a commercial thoroughfare in the heart of stylish South Beach, is getting early ripples of sea level rise caused by global warming — even as Florida’s politicians, including two possible contenders for the presidency in 2016, are starkly at odds over what to do about it and whether the problem is even real.

More at the link. A good article.

[Xipe Totec]

1. Problem solved. nt

[riqster]

25. If it only affected Repubs, yeah.

Unfortunately, lots of other peeps are getting the shaft too.

[hatrack]

2. Boy howdy, there's never been a better time for investing in Florida real estate!

[riqster]

3. A science-denying associate of mine ignored the warnings.

He is having trouble getting insurance on his oceanfront property. Wow, who could have predicted THAT???

[Eleanors38]

24. It's time again for Stiltsville!

[Arugula Latte]

4. Yabbut,

who ya gonna believe, Fair & Balanced Fox News or your lying ankles?

[riqster]

5. Well, my ankles aren't as reliable as they used to be, soooo....

[onethatcares]

6. look on the sunny side

governor alien has decided to lower auto registration fees by a whopping $25.00. With that, he's been touring the state claiming you can now buy a house, or a car.

He's the greatest,

[hatrack]

14. I thought he'd been officially designated Governor Gollum?

Perhaps I've been misinformed . . .

[riqster]

18. That's just precious.

[scarletwoman]

30. DUzy!

[riqster]

15. Pretty soon, $25.00 just might buy a beach house.

Snorkels not included for that price-bring your own.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I wish this was limited to oh... Florida

but that is another story, and I mean the denial of the problem, or solutions.

[riqster]

8. Quite true.

It's a good example of the problems caused by denial, but it is only one of many.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. And it is on both sides

and I will leave it at that.

Now some wonderful public scoping report to read... I got my coffee... and those ARE beyond boring.

[Scuba]

10. Climate "science" bullshit again?

https://twitter.com/assholeofday/status/464506425243213824/photo/1

[riqster]

17. Holy shit, he really looks like that?

Frankenstein in his DNA?

[OnlinePoker]

19. Here's an earlier post I made about him that I saw on Reddit

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018611527

[riqster]

23. Bleach. Brain. Urg.

[mindwalker_i]

11. Sometimes the only way to get people to believe something

is to beat them senseless with evidence. This might just do it.

On the other hand, it would be fun to keep telling them that Jesus will save them.

[hatrack]

12. I'm all out of Give-A-Damn for one hell of a lot of my fellow citizens . . .

You choose to embrace pig-ignorance, magical thinking, American Exceptionalism, Beckian paranoia and rejection of rational, objective thought in favor of What Makes You Feel Good Inside (TM)?

Fine. Let the Reality Stick descend for as many times and with as much force as necessary until the lesson is conveyed.

[mindwalker_i]

13. And I'm rooting for the reality stick

even though, in the end, I know it will win.

[riqster]

16. It always does.

[redqueen]

20. +1

It will get worse until we change our behavior. In a discussion on tumblr among teens and young adults about global warming, one said something I will never forget: 'A fever helps fight infection.'

Kids, huh? They say the darnedest things.

[Jasana]

21. A fever does indeed help with an infection...

Unfortunately, I don't want to be the germ.

[riqster]

22. Well put.

[riqster]

27. Some of them already are devoid of sense. Nt

[randys1]

26. I had to change dentists, mine denied climate change and was against healthcare for poor people

but he was pretty good and the nitrous was free

oh well, i refuse to go to a scientist who does not believe in science

[riqster]

28. Horror!

http://m.

[malaise]

29. The facts are the facts

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-10-17/news/fl-high-tides-moon-flooding-20131017_1_coastal-flooding-sea-level-rise-earth
<snip>
Coastal flooding getting worse with sea-level rise

A conspiracy of the moon, high tides and the steady rise of the oceans left up to a foot of sea water in some sections of Fort Lauderdale and Miami Beach Thursday.

These atmospheric factors join forces three to five times every year to heap ocean water at the shoreline, leaving streets and low-lying coastal areas throughout South Florida flooded.

Because the Atlantic Ocean has risen about 9 inches in the past 80 to 100 years, the problem continues to deepen, said Jennifer Jurado, director of Broward County's Natural Resources Planning and Management Division.

"For many community members, who live in low-lying areas, the flooding has significantly increased in the last several years, compared to what they were experiencing two decades ago," she said.

[riqster]

31. Ah, those pesky facts mean nothing.

The Lord Jehovah will rapture all the true believers into Heaven, leaving only the hellbound heathens to deal with this situation.

Any day now, you wait and see.

Any day now, yep....

[malaise]

32. Hope they still believe that crap as

they're drowning - no sarcasm

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. Actually I disarm that crowd often

But God promised in Genesis that he would never again destroy the world.

Yes, yes he did (validate the crazy belief), but he never said a word about humans, and we are doing a fine job out of it since we are exercising that pesky gift from the Lord, and that is FREE WILL. (sucker punch)

They usually stammer in place. I have even at times quoted chapter and verse of yes, GENESIS to make my point.

It's gotten bad enough that I actually disarmed a local preacher, in front of some of his flock. His flock, ok some of the women with children, asked for actual info on this evil invention from the far left. I think it was the young children that did it quite frankly.