Mexico's Gulf Coast in Peril from Global Warming

[NNadir]

"ALVARADO, Mexico (Reuters) - In this sweaty Gulf of Mexico fishing village, poor families in dirt-floor homes dream, like millions of people around the world, of owning air-conditioned cars and refrigerators.


Scraping out a living by fishing, and preoccupied by the constant threat of water contamination from factory waste and leaky oil pipelines, fishermen here have never heard of global warming.


Yet their proximity to the sea, with waves lapping just footsteps from their doorways, means they are likely to be among the first victims of climate change in Mexico, their homes underwater by the time their grandchildren are old..."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=585&e=1&u=/nm/20050309/sc_nm/environment_mexico_dc

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[silverlib]

3. I'm glad you're convinced...

I certainly am not. From what I have read, land is going under water bit bit by bit, inch by inch.

[jpak]

5. I disagree.

If this were the case, then there would have been no secular change in sea level associated with glacial-interglacial cycles over the last 1.6 million years.

To the contrary, sea level rose and fell with the advance and retreat of continental glaciers...

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs2-00/

Claims of zero-sum-isostacy in response to global warming are pure Greenwash pseudoscience bullshit...

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/environment/waterworld.html

Real geologists know better.

[cdb]

2. Everybody knows that

global warming is just a liberal plot to slow down industry and cut into corporate profits. It just doesn't exist. Climate change is a natural and cyclical occurence. Like locusts.

[Viking12]

6. No, no, no

It is a communist plot to eliminate the capitalist sytem and force the free-loving people of Murica into eco-slavery. Duh!:eyes:

Welcome to DU:hi:

[cdb]

7. Oh...

Thanks for setting me straight!!

Now about that non-existent ozone hole...

[Viking12]

8. Ozone? We don't need no stinkin' ozone!

Ozone is for sissies. If you can't handle a little extra UV radition you're weak and you probably collect welfare. :crazy:

[jpak]

9. And it's caused by volcanoes and sea salt aerosols

and its been around forever and who cares cuz UVB is good for you!!!!

get a load of this...

http://www.thesafetyvalve.com/archives/000236.html

[Viking12]

10. Of course, volcanoes are the primary source for CFCs

duh :eyes:
:eyes:

[struggle4progress]

11. Do you remember the (German Marshall Fund) study about a decade ago ...

... that argued, well, yes, global warming would occur, but it was a good thing, because the sun was getting dimmer, and the expected global warming was going to be just exactly what was needed to cancel the effect?

[DELUSIONAL]

4. Coastal Regions are already seeing the sea level rise.

Guyana -- right next door to Venezuela -- is having problems with the ocean eroding the beaches due to the rising sea level.

And then in the Pacific -- many islands are threatened -- and their populations are looking for nations to take them in. The problem is wide spread and not getting any better. Some island nations are suing the major contributors to green house gases.

This is a major problem -- world wide.

Meanwhile in the US the fundies with their make-believe science are not concerned 'cause Jesus is coming again and will take them all away.

To paraphrase Mike Malloy -- Jesus just come and take your believers away and leave the rest of us in peace. Just get it over with already!