Water's Edge, The crisis of rising sea levels, Part 3

[uppityperson]

Reuters series on rising sea levels.

This is the link to part 3, parts 1 and 2 are at the top.

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/waters-edge-the-crisis-of-rising-sea-levels/

Part 3: Hurricane Ike sent a clear message that the people and vital energy industry of one of America's largest urban areas needed protection from rising seas. Six years later, the only plan with any traction is a professor's Dutch-inspired idea - and it has scant political backing.

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Danger Zones
At least 5.6 million jobs are located in areas at risk of hurricane-related flooding, a Reuters analysis found. To arrive at this number, Reuters used Bureau of Labor Statistics data on businesses, employment and payrolls in hurricane flood zones as defined by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or state authorities.

In a separate analysis, Reuters found that about 24,000 acres along the U.S. shoreline changed from wetlands to developed land from 1996 to 2010. The analysis used data from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s Coastal Change Analysis Program, which shows dominant land use in 30-square-meter areas. Reuters examined areas only within about one-eighth of a mile of the mean higher high water coastline as mapped by NOAA for the contiguous United States. Louisiana was excluded because of insufficient data.

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The Village that must move, but can't.
The Chukchi Sea’s unrelenting waves were slowly ripping away the land and homes of the 600 or so residents of this Alaska Native village on a sinking barrier island. U.S. government reports determined that the community was “imminently threatened” with inundation and needed “immediate action” to move to safer ground on the mainland. Villagers voted 161-20 to relocate off the island. Shishmaref, the media proclaimed, would be the United States’ first climate refugees....

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Video about Shismaref, AK
http://cds1.yospace.com/access/d/u/0/1/web/type=video,fmt=mp4,maxs=855x479/99780151?f=100066135378

[LouisvilleDem]

1. According to Wikipedia...

...the town has a total population of 563 who live in 148 homes. For this they need 130 million? Where are they moving to, the upper east side of Manhattan?

[uppityperson]

2. Did you look at the video? A big problem is permafrost

If you build directly on the ground, the permafrost melts and everything sinks into the muck. Making sure that is avoided is an issue up there.

[LouisvilleDem]

4. They are being relocated

Why not relocate them to a place without all these issues? I see no reason why taxpayers should shell out nearly one million dollars per house.

[uppityperson]

5. Where? The whole area where they live is permafrost? Maybe send them away from their

ancestral lands to.....Hawaii? SE AK? Oooo, how about putting them on a reservation in OK?

It is a problem, where to send them, how to do it. I can see them being relocated to other villages, if there is sufficient resources there.

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3. I say no money to relocate.

We need to feel the pain of our own actions, our human actions that have caused what we all know we've caused. And only through pain will people begin to fight back against this ridiculous anti-global warming campaign being parroted by the RW industry. Humans are reactionary, similar to a fireman. We wait for there to be a fire before we act.

So, let the fire start. The sooner the better for all of the World's species.