Mon Dec 24, 2012, 10:04 AM

salinen (7,288 posts)

Ocean levels rising is not a worry

Why? Because the other effects of Global Climate Change are far worse. Increased temperatures will disrupt animal life cycles, be a incubator for diseases, cause energetic storms, raise temperatures to deadly levels, and a host of other horrible effects. I actually think that the promotion of rising sea levels as a guise for the more horrendous outcomes. After all, if we'd actually survive that long, we could always move inland.

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Ocean levels rising is not a worry (Original post)	salinen	Dec 2012	OP
I think it's picked because it has highly visible effects that can be easily photoshopped	Recursion	Dec 2012	#1
While ocean level rise	salinen	Dec 2012	#2
So tsunamis don't kill people?	Bette Noir	Dec 2012	#6
Have you heard of Sandy? Increased storm intensity means increased surge.	A Simple Game	Dec 2012	#10
Not to mention the fact that most of the planet's population lives near the coastline. nt	NYC_SKP	Dec 2012	#3
It was in Lagos that it struck me...	Recursion	Dec 2012	#4
Upthread I mentioned	salinen	Dec 2012	#8
you'll be forced to	salinen	Dec 2012	#7
I live below sea level now. nt	NYC_SKP	Dec 2012	#13
Hey we have to keep things in proper order....	daleanime	Dec 2012	#5
Yes, it is the microbes that will get us	siligut	Dec 2012	#9
With the rising oceans comes thawing methane and less light reflecting ice.	TheKentuckian	Dec 2012	#11
That which is now dismissed as "Fly-over" land...	Thor_MN	Dec 2012	#12

Response to salinen (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 10:39 AM

Recursion (25,486 posts)

1. I think it's picked because it has highly visible effects that can be easily photoshopped

And, since I'll be doing some work in the Maldives in the next few years (assuming they still exist), it's terrifically important to me, at least.

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 10:54 AM

salinen (7,288 posts)

2. While ocean level rise

is a terrible reality, it isn't exactly life threatening, and that's why I think it's hyped. Those poor folks in the Maldives. I have a thought that if we survive to great ocean level rise, that the forced migration away from coastal to inland will cause wars. No countries want other people moving in.

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 11:52 AM

Bette Noir (3,421 posts)

6. So tsunamis don't kill people?

Rising sea levels make previously safe residential areas vulnerable to tsunamis and storm surges. Duh.

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 12:22 PM

A Simple Game (4,833 posts)

10. Have you heard of Sandy? Increased storm intensity means increased surge.

Many people can't afford to move away from the coast. Besides their homes, their jobs are there also.

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 11:00 AM

NYC_SKP (48,741 posts)

3. Not to mention the fact that most of the planet's population lives near the coastline. nt

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 11:06 AM

Recursion (25,486 posts)

4. It was in Lagos that it struck me...

... that we in the US have the luxury of treating climate change as a theoretical, or even hypothetical thing. For the great subtropical developing world urban centers (Lagos has more people than New York City, remember), it is real and it is happening now.

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Response to Recursion (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 12:01 PM

salinen (7,288 posts)

8. Upthread I mentioned

that a possible outcome of mass migration away from the coast will be war. Millions of starving, homeless people will not be welcome in neighboring countries.

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 11:58 AM

salinen (7,288 posts)

7. you'll be forced to

move to Rochester. Sorry.

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 03:52 PM

NYC_SKP (48,741 posts)

13. I live below sea level now. nt

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 11:48 AM

daleanime (2,949 posts)

5. Hey we have to keep things in proper order....

destroy our economy first, then our environment.

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 12:07 PM

siligut (11,000 posts)

9. Yes, it is the microbes that will get us

They are everywhere.

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 12:28 PM

TheKentuckian (17,383 posts)

11. With the rising oceans comes thawing methane and less light reflecting ice.

The focus on sea levels is probably just as much an anchor point for folks to relate to as a distraction from more troubling problems.

It doesn't take a lot of imagination or even a very basic background in hard science to understand the problem with New York, Boston, DC, and other metropolis under water.

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 01:05 PM

Thor_MN (4,596 posts)

12. That which is now dismissed as "Fly-over" land...

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