@eYe saidHey! Christian! Love thy neighbour. Even if he hates and persecutes you. Do not judge, lest thy be judged.
It's a scam against the taxpayer.
Imagine a bunch of atheists worried about what the world will be like after they are long dead.
Why do you care?
If you don't believe in god then your life is a fleeting existence that isn't really worth anything so why do you care about what the planet might be like in 100 years?
Your rules, obey them, you religious toss pot.
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@sonhouse saidCoastal property is not looking like a great long-term investment.
@AverageJoe1
Well there is that pesky part where for instance, if the ice melts in in Greenland and Iceland, first they will have to change their name and second we all have to deal with about a 20 foot rise in sea levels so I guess home ownership is a THOUSAND times more of a threat than that.
But for you ultrarightwingnuts you can't think beyond the next dow jones updat ...[text shortened]... the present and anything more than a week away might as well be thinking about the next 1000 years.
@spruce112358 saidAussies didn't receive the scare story yet:
Coastal property is not looking like a great long-term investment.
A COASTAL POPULATION — 87% of Australia's population lives within 50 kilometres of the coast, an increase of 2% since 2001. This equates to more than 22 million Australians now calling the coast home.
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@Wajoma saidI doubt many of us will be affected in our lifetimes. Unless you live in Venice. Or Polynesia.
Aussies didn't receive the scare story yet:
A COASTAL POPULATION — 87% of Australia's population lives within 50 kilometres of the coast, an increase of 2% since 2001. This equates to more than 22 million Australians now calling the coast home.
@spruce112358 saidVenice is sinking, it's not the ocean rising.
I doubt many of us will be affected in our lifetimes. Unless you live in Venice. Or Polynesia.
Meanwhile on low Islands that aren't sinking:
https://www.airport-technology.com/projects/velena-international-airport-expansion/?cf-view
@Wajoma saidIf you pay them, contractors will certainly build stuff.
Venice is sinking, it's not the ocean rising.
Meanwhile on low Islands that aren't sinking:
https://www.airport-technology.com/projects/velena-international-airport-expansion/?cf-view
Meanwhile:
"By 2021, 90% of islands in the Maldives experienced severe erosion, 97% of the country no longer had fresh groundwater, and more than 50% of the national budget was being spent on efforts to adapt to the effects of climate change."
And:
"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report predicted the upper limit of the sea level rises will be 59 centimetres (23 in) by 2100, which means that most of the Maldives' 200 inhabited islands may need to be abandoned."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_the_Maldives
Que sera sera.
@spruce112358 saidMeanwhile, grifting for 'climate change' dollars will increase at an inverse rate to the how the dire consequence scare stories are scaled back. Remember the hockey stick. Costal erosion occurs, no matter how the ocean does or doesn't rise.
If you pay them, contractors will certainly build stuff.
Meanwhile:
"By 2021, 90% of islands in the Maldives experienced severe erosion, 97% of the country no longer had fresh groundwater, and more than 50% of the national budget was being spent on efforts to adapt to the effects of climate change."
And:
"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 repor ...[text shortened]... to be abandoned."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_the_Maldives
Que sera sera.
"97% of the country no longer had fresh groundwater..."
Sounds bad, are you saying this is down from100% of the country having fresh ground water? We've installed pipelines on atolls, sea water flows in and out of 2m deep trenches 50m from the shoreline in time with the tides, we have to time welds to the tide. Fuel lines to flow thousands of litres of lovely CO2 producing jet fuel. You don't dig fresh water wells on these places, it's all sea water. So how much fresh groundwater did they have, or are you trying to power up your scare stories with irrelevant numbers?
BTW wiki is over for opinion content, it's been hi-jacked.
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@Wajoma
This is not wiki. I didn't know the Maldives is the lowest-lying country in the world. Sounds like they have a lot of problems, but sea level rise may have one good effect: they will go from having 3% of the world's reefs to 6%! Of course, the corals will grow on newly submerged buildings, but hey... Always look on the bright side...
https://www.unicef.org/rosa/blog/were-being-swallowed-ocean-and-running-out-freshwater
@wildgrass saidCrony capitalists love solar.
The sun can't be monopolized. So that's why capitalism hates solar.
Crony capitalists first buy up all the producers of solar panels to form a monopoly so that they can control the price. Then they lobby for tariffs on imported solar cells because 'safety' and 'jobs' and 'what about the children?'
Then they ask government to issue restrictive zoning ordinances so that solar panels can only be placed on 'regulated facilities' not on individual homes because 'aesthetics' and 'what about the children?' Then the crony capitalist buys up the regulated solar facilities.
A crony capitalist is the person LEAST interested in free markets on the planet. He is actually a socialist because he relies on government to make his money. But he will go on Fox News and screech about socialism being bad - even though he is one.
The LAST thing the crony capitalists want is to compete on a level free market playing field with other providers because then he would have to reduce prices and margins to stay in business and the consumer would get high quality goods and services for the best price. Crony capitalists DO NOT want to do that.
Aside: we use an identical process to provide healthcare.
But at least the children are safe. Thank the gods for that.