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Posted: 7/2/2012 9:14:19 AM EDT
Women, children, poor people, and minorities disproportionately affected.



       




       


       LONDON |
       Sun Jul 1, 2012 1:02pm EDT
       




   




(Reuters) - Rising sea levels cannot be stopped over the next several
hundred years, even if deep emissions cuts lower global average
temperatures, but they can be slowed down, climate scientists said in a
study on Sunday.






A lot of climate research shows
that rising greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for increasing
global average surface temperatures by about 0.17 degrees Celsius a
decade from 1980-2010 and for a sea level rise of about 2.3mm a year
from 2005-2010 as ice caps and glaciers melt.





Rising
sea levels threaten about a tenth of the world's population who live in
low-lying areas and islands which are at risk of flooding, including
the Caribbean, Maldives and Asia-Pacific island groups.





More
than 180 countries are negotiating a new global climate pact which will
come into force by 2020 and force all nations to cut emissions to limit
warming to below 2 degrees Celsius this century - a level scientists
say is the minimum required to avert catastrophic effects....






http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/01/us-climate-sealevel-idUSBRE8600EG20120701
 
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:17:46 AM EDT
[#1]
Sounds like we better give more of our money to the government.

It's our only hope!
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:18:35 AM EDT
[#2]
Getting some good mileage out of this little guy today:
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:19:06 AM EDT
[#3]

 
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:20:18 AM EDT
[#4]
Another promise broken by Obama.

All Bush's fault, of course....
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:20:44 AM EDT
[#5]
Anyone ever done that trick where you fill a cup with ice and water up to the top and let it melt.  And the level of water doesn't change.  So, yeah...

Bitch please.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:21:08 AM EDT
[#6]
but but......


Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:21:20 AM EDT
[#7]
As if a new tax prevents anything.  
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:21:27 AM EDT
[#8]
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:22:45 AM EDT
[#9]
A news organisation is still putting out "global warming" reports?
That was sooo 2009 ago.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:23:49 AM EDT
[#10]
Quoted:
Anyone ever done that trick where you fill a cup with ice and water up to the top and let it melt.  And the level of water doesn't change.  So, yeah...

Bitch please.

Flagged for racism
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:24:00 AM EDT
[#11]
Quoted:
Anyone ever done that trick where you fill a cup with ice and water up to the top and let it melt.  And the level of water doesn't change.  So, yeah...

Bitch please.


Not the same thing.  There is a shit ton of ice that is on land.  

Also, Manbearpig.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:25:16 AM EDT
[#12]
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:30:56 AM EDT
[#13]
Quoted:
Another promise broken by Obama.

All Bush's fault, of course....


He hasn't been given enough time to stop the rising waters.  He needs atleast another 4 years.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:31:11 AM EDT
[#14]
Earth is currently in an Ice Age at this very moment. The definition for an Ice Age is when there is permanent ice on either pole. The normal condition for earth for the entirety of its' history is when the planet is not experiencing an Ice Age. Interesting how the media never points this out and always lies about the earth reverting to an Ice Age if the (so-called) warming continues (regardless of the cause), instead of saying that it is a beneficial trend that the earth is finally coming out of an Ice Age after MILLIONS of years.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:32:17 AM EDT
[#15]
2.3 mm  is nothing.  It could be that big orange ball in the sky.

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Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:32:33 AM EDT
[#16]
Quoted:
A news organisation is still putting out "global warming" reports?
That was sooo 2009 ago.


Fuck man...  This shit was coming out and the first "new " Earth Day back in 1990.  


These people need to

Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:33:30 AM EDT
[#17]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Another promise broken by Obama.

All Bush's fault, of course....


He hasn't been given enough time to stop the rising waters.  He needs atleast another 40 years.


Come on..... You know you'd welcome it.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:34:41 AM EDT
[#18]
Lets murder all the hippies, socialists, haji's, etc, and build a giant berm with their bodies to contain the flood waters.  That outta do the trick
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:34:48 AM EDT
[#19]
Everyone needs to head to the beach with a bucket, if we start bailing it out now, we might keep the ocean from getting to full!
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:35:59 AM EDT
[#20]



Quoted:



Quoted:

Anyone ever done that trick where you fill a cup with ice and water up to the top and let it melt.  And the level of water doesn't change.  So, yeah...



Bitch please.




Not the same thing.  There is a shit ton of ice that is on land.  



Also, Manbearpig.


except most of that ice is at Antarctica and thats not going anywhere...







 
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:40:10 AM EDT
[#21]
Quoted:
Quoted:
A news organisation is still putting out "global warming" reports?
That was sooo 2009 ago.


Fuck man...  This shit was coming out and the first "new " Earth Day back in 1990.  


These people need to

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HvpykzRA3wg/S11JjiLxYBI/AAAAAAAAAMw/olWywsgtdxo/s400/fuck-off-kitty.jpg



From "The First Global Revolution", Club of Rome, 1992:

“Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer
well suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical
nature of many of today’s problems do not always allow elected
representatives to make competent decisions at the right time.”

-page 71


"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself."

-page 75
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:41:29 AM EDT
[#22]
So, it's gonna rise suddenly and wipe out people along coasts?  What a load of paranoialiberalism.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:48:49 AM EDT
[#23]
Uh huh...
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:51:33 AM EDT
[#24]
Thermodynamics are racist.  
 
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:53:03 AM EDT
[#25]
That's right. We cannot do shit about it, therefore we also do not need to fund anymore tax scams or laws.

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Link Posted: 7/2/2012 9:57:49 AM EDT
[#26]
"More than 180 countries are negotiating a new global climate pact which will come into force by 2020 and force all nations to cut emissions to limit warming to below 2 degrees Celsius this century - a level scientists say is the minimum required to avert catastrophic effects...."

So now we think we're big enough as a race to stop the natural cycles of the planet?  The arrogance of these people is truly, utterly astonishing.  When these emissions cuts fail to drop the increase to below 2 degrees Celsius, what then?  Will they admit that they were wrong.  These fuckers might as well be hoping to get swept away on the tail of a comet.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 10:22:21 AM EDT
[#27]
well fuck it then...I'm buying a SUV.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 10:26:24 AM EDT
[#28]
It never ceases to amaze me that people will try to force the commitment of untold trillions of dollars worth of economic disaster to trying to prevent something that is likely inevitable, and won't invest a cent figuring out how to live on a warmer planet.

Of course, then they propose we move elsewhere, because we have "ruined" this world, so I suppose the logic is essentially absent from their thinking.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 10:27:25 AM EDT
[#29]





Quoted:



Women, children, poor people, and minorities disproportionately affected.





 



I thought only the rich could afford to live on the coast.  





Whatever will these poor people do when within ten years they are inundated by an entire inch of water??  





 
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 10:29:54 AM EDT
[#30]
Quoted:
That's right. We cannot do shit about it, therefore we also do not need to fund anymore tax scams or laws.

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Don't you know how this works? This is CRISIS! We need money to redistribute fix the problem!
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 10:31:00 AM EDT
[#31]
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 10:36:46 AM EDT
[#32]
Anti-capitalism is all the rage these days.

TC
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 10:38:32 AM EDT
[#33]
Yeah, it has been rising for the last 13,000 years.  That's plenty of time to move to some higher ground.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 11:58:51 AM EDT
[#34]
Bad shit coming:





Link Posted: 7/2/2012 12:05:25 PM EDT
[#35]
Quoted:
well fuck it then...I'm buying a SUV.


Me too!

Picking up our "new" (2010) Honda Pilot today or tomorrow.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 12:07:37 PM EDT
[#36]
I will buy your beach front property cheap!  Sell while you still can!
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 12:07:41 PM EDT
[#37]
Quoted:
Yeah, it has been rising for the last 13,000 years.  That's plenty of time to move to some higher ground.


right!? like just take a step back man.


fucking idiot hippies these "scientists" are.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 12:11:00 PM EDT
[#38]
Maybe this means Virginia will finally get waves.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 12:22:21 PM EDT
[#39]
Quoted:
There is a documentary of some guy who is the president of some little string of islands begging at the UN to save his little island nation from "disappearing due to global warming". It might be on netflix streaming but I can't remember the name now. He went on to claim that Manhattan could disappear under the waves so I've had both cars idling the driveway constantly since I saw that.




It was probably "King Tide" that you are thinking about.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 12:25:58 PM EDT
[#40]
Quoted:
Sounds like we better give more of our money to the government.

It's our only hope!


Surely the lefties aren't proposing a government solution to this "problem". That would be so very uncharacteristic of them.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 12:26:47 PM EDT
[#41]
Quoted:
Maybe this means Virginia will finally get waves.



Some of us inland states may finally get our shot at beachfront property! But what do I care? Ted Turner owns all of mine...


Link Posted: 7/2/2012 12:59:31 PM EDT
[#42]
 NM been said. Fuck obama.





 
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 1:05:57 PM EDT
[#43]



Quoted:


Sounds like we better give more of our money to the government.



It's our only hope!
I plan on using dead scientists in their white lab coats for sandbags.





 
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 1:09:23 PM EDT
[#44]



Quoted:


There is a documentary of some guy who is the president of some little string of islands begging at the UN to save his little island nation from "disappearing due to global warming". It might be on netflix streaming but I can't remember the name now. He went on to claim that Manhattan could disappear under the waves so I've had both cars idling the driveway constantly since I saw that.






 



so in essence, you're making it worse and hastening your own demise




i shall do the same






Link Posted: 7/2/2012 1:12:27 PM EDT
[#45]
So what you are saying is that my great great great great great grandchildren will be driving a shorter distance to the beach?  Sweet!  That'll make the greenies appreciate them more!
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 1:13:31 PM EDT
[#46]
brb––need to go buy some land with some hills on it so I own my own archipelago when this comes true.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 1:17:25 PM EDT
[#47]
Look I like global warming, it makes Arfcom women wear low cut shirts.

Link Posted: 7/2/2012 1:18:32 PM EDT
[#48]
BS hysteria to get more money to 'study' the problem.

So they can then conclude they need more money to 'study the problem'...

So they can then conclude they need more money to 'study the problem'...

See a pattern yet?

Link Posted: 7/2/2012 1:18:54 PM EDT
[#49]
Quoted:

Quoted:
There is a documentary of some guy who is the president of some little string of islands begging at the UN to save his little island nation from "disappearing due to global warming". It might be on netflix streaming but I can't remember the name now. He went on to claim that Manhattan could disappear under the waves so I've had both cars idling the driveway constantly since I saw that.


 

so in essence, you're making it worse and hastening your own demise

i shall do the same




He lives upstate. The idea is that the whole state would be improved with the deletion of NYC.
Link Posted: 7/2/2012 1:20:05 PM EDT
[#50]
Who cares any more besides al gore. Time for these idiots to move on.
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