Why Global Warming does not bother me.

[Tyrannical]

Why Global Warming does not bother me.

Worse case scenario, the oceans rise fifty feet in a hundred years. I'm confident that the US could build a fifty foot sea wall along thousands of miles of coast in a hundred years. Call it the Great Wall of America

[Thinking Aloud]

Why Global Warming does not bother me.

Worse case scenario, the oceans rise fifty feet in a hundred years. I'm confident that the US could build a fifty foot sea wall along thousands of miles of coast in a hundred years. Call it the Great Wall of America

I'd be concerned about where all those rivers are going to drain to.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'd be concerned about the construction of a wall that will hold back thousands of miles of lateral water pressure. Pretty damn impressive considering continents sometimes fail to achieve this.

[Rum]

I'd be concerned about Bangladesh. But then I'll be dead by the time the wall is needed.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Laklak will have an ocean-front property.

[FBM]

Yup. Sea walls won't prevent the reverse flow of sea/ocean water into previously out-flowing rivers. Saltwater influx will wipe out fertile farming lowlands...yada yada...but most or all of us Ratz will be dead by then, so there's a cheery thought.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Yup. Sea walls won't prevent the reverse flow of sea/ocean water into previously out-flowing rivers. Saltwater influx will wipe out fertile farming lowlands...yada yada...but most or all of us Ratz will be dead by then, so there's a cheery thought.

On the other hand, the 'Glades could become the world's largest fish farm.

[Tero]

I'd be concerned about Bangladesh. But then I'll be dead by the time the wall is needed.

I heard about Bangladesh back in the benefit concert days. It was obvious. They put the country in the wrong place. Not my problem, they have had 30 years to move them out. Maybe Somalia, after all the Somalis leave.

[macdoc]

Given to exaggeration now Ty since nothing else works in the climate change denier realm.

Not a chance in hell the ocean will be up that much nor will the "seawall work"

More science fail from the right wing 'tards.

How many Repuglicans to change a light bulb?
None - they don't believe it burned out.

[MiM]

I'd be concerned about the construction of a wall that will hold back thousands of miles of lateral water pressure. Pretty damn impressive considering continents sometimes fail to achieve this.

Lateral water pressure Doesn't sound like physics to me. Storms and waves?

Better ask the Dutch about pros and cons with having land below sea level

[amused]

I'd be concerned about the construction of a wall that will hold back thousands of miles of lateral water pressure. Pretty damn impressive considering continents sometimes fail to achieve this.

Lateral water pressure Doesn't sound like physics to me. Storms and waves?

Better ask the Dutch about pros and cons with having land below sea level

Or New Orleans.

[klr]

Why Global Warming does not bother me.

Worse case scenario, the oceans rise fifty feet in a hundred years. I'm confident that the US could build a fifty foot sea wall along thousands of miles of coast in a hundred years. Call it the Great Wall of America

... and too late, you realise that there are these things called the Canadian and Mexican borders.

Someone (TA?) posted a link a couple of years back where you could project the effects of a given rise in sea levels. 50 feet (15 metres), and a few billion people would quite literally be up the creek.

[redunderthebed]

I'd be concerned about the construction of a wall that will hold back thousands of miles of lateral water pressure. Pretty damn impressive considering continents sometimes fail to achieve this.

Lateral water pressure Doesn't sound like physics to me. Storms and waves?

Better ask the Dutch about pros and cons with having land below sea level

Or New Orleans.

Or as mentioned Bangladesh islands where hundreds people did live disappear everyear.

We haven't even addressed the pacific islands where 100's thousands people live and wont have anywhere to live. Australia and NZ are seriously discussing what the fuck to do when this happens the term climate refugee is entering our vocabulary as one of the issues of the 21st century in the next 50 years i promise.

That said NZ and Australia have being dealing with people coming from the pacific islands for as long as we have being independent nations and before then there is more samoans in NZ than there is in Samoa and im sure Australia is not far behind and this is the case with most pacific islands.

Global warming is real and yes my poppa it is a natural occurance but one due to us has gone all fucked up and ignoring it because coal companies etc want to make a short term profit is negligent to put it mildly and ignoring the massive opportunities that switching from a unsustainable economy to a sustainable one presents.

Laklak will have an ocean-front property.

So will i and most of the people who live in my area eat a dick rich people who built on a swamp area.

How many Repuglicans to change a light bulb?
None - they don't believe it burned out.

There you have described most of the right-wing parties in the western world.

[Seth]

I'd be concerned about the construction of a wall that will hold back thousands of miles of lateral water pressure. Pretty damn impressive considering continents sometimes fail to achieve this.

There is no such thing as "lateral water pressure" to be worried about. Water pressure is only of concern as a function of DEPTH, and the formula is 0.43 psi per vertical foot for seawater. So, a vertical column of water 50 feet deep exerts a pressure on a dam or sea-wall at the bottom of 21.5 psi. Building a sea-wall to withstand that pressure is child's play, and we've been doing it for a hundred or more years. Just look at Hoover Dam, which is 726 feet high and is 660 feet thick at the bottom. Side pressure of a column of water is unconnected to the volume of water involved.

They would have to overbuild to compensate for storm surge and wave impact, but again, the Dutch have been doing it for more than 200 years.

Besides, it's easier to take that century to move cities and infrastructure back and up beyond the maximum possible sea level if ALL the ice in the world melts.

[Seth]

I'd be concerned about the construction of a wall that will hold back thousands of miles of lateral water pressure. Pretty damn impressive considering continents sometimes fail to achieve this.

Lateral water pressure Doesn't sound like physics to me. Storms and waves?

Better ask the Dutch about pros and cons with having land below sea level

Or New Orleans.

Or as mentioned Bangladesh islands where hundreds people did live disappear everyear.

Here's a novel idea: Don't live within 50 vertical feet of the current sea level.

We haven't even addressed the pacific islands where 100's thousands people live and wont have anywhere to live. Australia and NZ are seriously discussing what the fuck to do when this happens the term climate refugee is entering our vocabulary as one of the issues of the 21st century in the next 50 years i promise.

They'll all be dead in a hundred years, so no big huhu. Just tell 'em they have to move when the tide rises. Or let 'em drown if that's their choice.