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LEGO Americana Roadshow: Building Across America I just checked out this traveling exhibition from LEGO and was quite impressed. The scale ... -
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
It's important to establish the platform.
ReplyDeleteBy 2050, the state of most coastal areas will have made the arguments for them.
ReplyDeleteIt's never to la...blub blub blub.
ReplyDeleteThat is very ambitious. I hope it is possible though.
ReplyDeleteIts already too late. East coast states are going to lose a lot of territory (and infrastructure and cities and populations,) by the end of the century.
ReplyDeleteThe oceans don't care that Drumpf doesn't believe in climate change, they'll just keep on rising, millimeter by millimeter, year by year.
I wonder if there's an exemption for providing fuels for vehicles of historic interest, such as the various steam locomotives and antique cars maintained by museums and historical societies.
ReplyDeleteValdis Klētnieks Many of those antique vehicles already won't run on modern gasoline. Put them up on pedestals and don't try to keep them running. The steam locomotives will run on anything that burns, so just pile cordwood into their furnaces and that will heat the boilers just as well as coal, at least for short demonstration rides.
ReplyDeleteCharles-A Rovira Yes, it is already too late to prevent significant damage (e.g., Florida is going to be hosed, along with many other costal cities). But it is NOT too late to prevent even more catastrophic damage, like turning vast agricultural areas all over the world into dust bowls that will make the great OK dust bowl of the 1930s look like a picnic ground. That's what will happen without a plan like this. A 2040 target would be better, but any plan like this is better than no plan, which is kinda what we have today.
ReplyDeleteBetter have a robust option (self-driving car, perhaps?) for those of us who will be in their 90's by then.
ReplyDeleteValdis Klētnieks I'm sure there would be, the amount of C02 expelled by exhibition steam engines would be negligible. (They can't legislate forest fires.) I applaud efforts to curb fossil fuels. But we will be taking steps backwards for at least four years, it seems.
ReplyDeleteClimate Change will have significant impact on all coastal communities in the not too distant future. The homeowners insurance companies are already pulling out of Florida.
ReplyDeletebloomberg.com - Florida Real Estate Faces a Nightmare
Mac Baird I live in Tampa. The sea level in Tampa Bay has already increased by a measurable amount. During a hurricane this increases the amount of damage done by the storm surge. A light pole near my home has a Max storm surge marker about 15 feet up.
ReplyDeleteJohn Bailey I am on the opposite coast of Florida at about the same latitude. My last storm surge was 6 inches above my dock with about 3 feet elevation remaining to my living room. I told my kids to sell the home when they inherit it sometime in the next 30 years. I live on the Inter-Coastal Waterway about 4 miles south of Patrick AFB, which generally sees less than half the surge on the beach about a mile away. So far, no damage since I replaced my shingle roof with a metal roof in 2004.
ReplyDeleteMac Baird We've been lucky with the hurricanes since the year of Katrina and her gang. I hope our luck continues.
ReplyDeleteJohn Bailey When questioning the risks of Climate Change, the proverbial canary in the coal mine is the insurance industry.
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Mac Baird Yes, the insurance costs to the homeowner and property owners close to bodies of water are becoming untenable. We had that law that expired a few years ago that increased cost to ludicrous amounts. They extended it, but for how long.
ReplyDeleteJohn Bailey B of A will no longer write a mortgage on a property in a flood zone. The problem is that the flood zone is growing rapidly.
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