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While Romney Mocks Sea-Level Rise, City Planners across the Country Take Action (Guest Voice)


Sep 7, 2012 by



While Romney Mocks Sea-Level Rise, City Planners across the Country Take Action (via Planetsave)

  At the Republican national convention last week, Mitt Romney mocked efforts to address climate change, specifically deriding President Obama for seeking to address rising ocean levels.  Here’s what he said: “President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans…(pause to allow…


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7 Comments

  1. RON BEASLEY
    September 7, 2012 | 11:13 pm

    It’s too late for any mitigation. Florida is toast, a slight rise in sea level and a storm surge from a hurricane would flood the subways and utility vaults of New York City, Boston and Washington DC with salt water. It could happen in a month or it might be 10 years but it will happen. Hundreds of thousands will die and the resources will not be available to rebuild the infrastructure.

  2. The_Ohioan
    September 8, 2012 | 8:44 am

    So are the insurance companies cancelling coastal cities’ policies? The rapidly disappearing Arctic ice pack is not an illusion made up by crazy environmentalists. The tipping point they have been concerned about for years may have already happened.

    [A prominent British Arctic scientist and researcher says that the continued and accelerated melting of the polar sea-ice cap is not only a result of climate change, but is also a massive contributor to it.

    To explain in an overly simplistic nutshell, sea ice is reflective, bouncing solar energy back into space. When it melts, the darker open sea absorbs more of that energy, increasing ocean temperatures.

    How much more? According to Professor Peter Wadhams [1] of the University of Cambridge’s Polar Ocean Physics Group [2], that increased absorption has an effect that’s “the equivalent of about 20 years of additional CO2 being added by man.”]

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/07/arctic_ice_melt/print.html

  3. Rcoutme
    September 9, 2012 | 10:25 am

    TO: yes, the insurance companies are doing precisely that. In addition, they are GREATLY increasing the premiums on all waterfront property from Maine to California.

  4. Rcoutme
    September 9, 2012 | 10:27 am

    One more thing: the melting ice cap in the Arctic will not make ocean levels rise. All those spring floods from the glaciers in the Andes, the Himalayas and Norway will–to say nothing of the newly forming rivers in Greenland.

  5. dduck
    September 9, 2012 | 12:35 pm

    Romney was mocking Obama and his former image of one who walks on water and controls it. That is all dated now. Ohio is correct, buy hip boots.

  6. Rcoutme
    September 9, 2012 | 12:43 pm

    If you can calculate it, try buying what will be new beach-front property as well…

  7. The_Ohioan
    September 9, 2012 | 4:50 pm

    dd

    Even Romney wouldn’t make a statement that ridiculous. He said “slow the rise of the oceans” and “heal the planet”. Only the nuts were doing the mocking about walking on water. Mr. Romney may be many uncomfortable things, but I don’t think he’s a nut. I could be wrong.