The Netherlands will still experience sea level rise they are just “a little more prepared”. They have a worse problem in that they have a very small, densely populated country with nowhere to move to if sea level rises significantly. The United States has lots of space. If NYC and FL become totally immersed the inhabitants will just have to move inland and to higher ground!
The residents in the inland states better start building their wall now because the last thing they want is to have inhabitants from NYC and FL immigrating to their states.
Really? FL already has a lot of NYC immigrants. Had no idea.
August 5, 2016 at 12:47 pm
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SW, the NY immigrants retired to Florida so they could vote for Debbie Wasserman whatever and Alan Grayson. That might not happen this time considering her forced resignation and mess she has made at DNC.
August 2, 2016 at 4:23 pm
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Should this mythical 6ft rise in sea level occur over the next century, they’ll hardly break a sweat in dealing with it.
Nor will we!
At the rate of approx. 1in/year, this ain’t no flash-flood folks!
Dave, the Progressives on this site think that Refrigerators and A/C units are as dangerous as ISIS. They know this because their leader Obama & Kerry said so. If Obama & Kerry really believe this, they should turn off all the A/C in the capitol and White House and do their part to save the planet.
This should be an incentive for oil & gas well contractors to start using salt water to inject into the wells instead of fresh ground water. Saudi Arabia has been using salt water to inject into oil fields for almost ten years now to keep the pressure up. US oil field operators may have to desalinate the water before injecting but, they could use this in their never ending arguments with the EPA that they are helping to keep ocean water levels down.
Kent, the Saudi’s have been using Desalination plants for a very long time since they have little clean water to use. They have done their part to lower ocean levels since they draw from sea water. Perhaps NY & Miami should install these plants on their shores so the ocean won’t rise.
I am aware of the Saudi’s aggressive utilization of desalination plants. However, the Saudis paid Haliburton about $15B to build a pipeline from the gulf to one of their major oil fields to supply salt water to the injection wells they also drilled on the outer perimeter in order to retain pressure in that field. I live in the Barnett Shale area of Texas and a lot of us are upset with the gas companies for using fresh water for fracking instead of salt water. They use a LOT of fresh water in the fracking process. There is a lot of controversy over fracking to start with but, using fresh water vs salt water compounds the aggravation. My original comment hits on the issue that the US needs to use more of the salt water from the ocean for a number of different needs. It may not be a big contributor to holding down rising ocean levels but, the solution will probably be a cumulative effect of many different actions.
Perhaps all the states bordering the ocean and Gulf should put in Desalination plants and draw from the ocean to keep the levels down. California really suffers from water management and when they don’t get the rain and they tend to like the smelt fish more than their citizens.
Actually the Donald was saying he’s been talks with a few very important people in Mexico, some really big names. Names he can’t disclose, but big names, some big players.
Mexico is planning on purchasing Texico so they can increase production of mary jane. This will help get the Donald out of debt personal debt to Putin for some bad deals, really bad deals that he can’t disclose. These were made years ago and they are really bad.
Donald needs to pay Putin back and fast. He needs full market value for America’s cyst and if he doesn’t get it, well we are all in big trouble, really big trouble.
The only option is to flood Texico and build a wall around the Texican perimeter to retain the water so it doesn’t ruin the chances of this deal. This will help keep water levels down for a few years as we will finally be able to ween ourselves from oil once the cyst has been lanced and removed.
Once the sale is completed, we can leave the wall up for US protection, Mexico is making their money back with lots of pot deals, huge pot deals. Putin is satisfied until he finds another debt that needs to be paid back.
Unfortunately there will not be any high school football in Texico this year, Texico will be under construction.
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Freaking hilarious, txmouth!
Every Texican will be issued a hard hat as the entire state is a construction zone. Don’t let OSHA catch you without your hard hat on. Fines, big fines, really big fines, okay.
August 5, 2016 at 4:48 pm
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If you want your wall, you can have your wall!!!
August 7, 2016 at 7:45 am
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If you want your national confidential and top secret information kept secret, you’ll have your national confidential and top secret information kept secret and secure on government email servers only.
August 8, 2016 at 9:22 am
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Gee Yogi, Good one!!
Option B would look something like this:
@yogi Just met with Putin, big things to happen in MidEast & China #Boom #Bang #nationalsecuritythis
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Desalination plants are expensive to build and operate but, I think we would both agree that if the US builds a sufficiently large number of them that the cost would be reasonable. Texas oilman T Boone Pickens has been saying for years that we need to build a network of water pipelines in the US for the purpose of transferring water from one part of the country to another as needed. One of the biggest urguments against this is that few regions want to give us their excess fresh water when they have it – I know that I sure don’t. Large use of desalination plants using ocean water could be an answer to our water supply problems and help with keeping rising ocean levels manageble.
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Insurance World needs to take a hard look at the coasts.
Good one Kent. Cut all Federal department budgets by 20% and we would have more than enough money to build Desalination plants in numerous areas that need the water and reduce the ocean rise in the process. We wouldn’t have to be concerned with Yogi’s iceberg melting and flooding NY and Miami.
Yogi, how much waste and corruption resulted from the Stimulus that wasn’t a stimulus? The President said he would create shovel ready jobs and didn’t. He could have built 100 Desalination plants and lowered the sea level a foot on every coastal state if he was concerned about rising seas.
The latest message from Trump on the economy is to cut corporate taxes from 35% to 15%, get rid of the estate tax, get rid of the penalizing NAFTA and take a new direction on the Trans Pacific agreement where it will be more favorable to the US, not China & Japan. These things are sorely needed even if liberals don’t like it.
We can definitely trim the fat on the wasted welfare. Now we just need to define welfare, and ensure that kids don’t go to bed hungry or without warmth.
We can then reconfigure the prison system to only house only violent offenders, televangelists, and white collar crime. Make them all bunk together in the same cells. Put Sheriff Joe Arpaio et al in prison for forcing the demand of the industrial prison complex. Prevent the transfer of property ownership during trials so they experience starting over from scratch.
Federal funding to build desalination plants would certainly jumpstart such a program but, there is a place in this for industry, private utilities and cooperatives to do so? Desalination plants are basically water utilities. I buy my water through a non-profit cooperative. I buy my electricity from a cooperative that in turn buys much of the electricity produced by a hydro-electric plant from the Brazos River authority which is part of the federal government. The federal government put up the money to build the power plant 60 years ago and it now turns a profit of millions of dollars per year for the federal government. It has paid for itself many times over and provides electricity to central Texas. Desalination plants are much like the hydro-electric plants in that they are an investment in our nations intrastructure that will use a plentiful resource and sell the product (water in this case) to consumers for many years. Why do you think that guys like T Boone Pickens have been buying up water rights? If the oil companies don’t want to use salt water (which corrodes pipe casing) then, give them an incentive to build desalination plants whose excess can be sold to water utilities.
Kent, I wonder how many times Hoover Dam has paid for itself to harness water from the Colorado river. We don’t seem to build large projects like that anymore, instead, we pay off donors to the Democratic party for more of the same old.
One and all: why can’t it be just about the fact that the science might be correct? no republican or democrat issues. Just science and prepare for the possibility that the scientists are correct and save our people? Just a thought.
Bob
Bob, I am probably not the only one of us that does agree with the scientist about global warming. The conversation is about how do we deal with this fact. Even if all the energy humans use daily were natural non-polluting such as solar, wind, hydro-electric or wave we would still have a global warming situation to deal with. If my home were 100% hydro-electric, wind & solar I would still be heating my home in the winter, running the AC in the summer and the energy heat exchange involved would still be heating the atmosphere. This conversation is about how to deal with the effects. Should the government or insurance carriers consider investing in projects that will use some of this extra water such as desalination plants that can pay a good return? The politicians have been talking about rebuilding our intra-structure – this could be part of that. What would be conversation be if the sea levels were dropping???
Bob, why can’t it be about the fact that your scientists are wrong? Do we spend trillions so we “might” save the planet to the tune of .000001 degree in 25 years?
Of course, the Dutch hear of our pending plight and chuckle.
The Netherlands will still experience sea level rise they are just “a little more prepared”. They have a worse problem in that they have a very small, densely populated country with nowhere to move to if sea level rises significantly. The United States has lots of space. If NYC and FL become totally immersed the inhabitants will just have to move inland and to higher ground!
The residents in the inland states better start building their wall now because the last thing they want is to have inhabitants from NYC and FL immigrating to their states.
Especially ones from SWFL.
FYI FL already has a lot of NYC immigrants…aka snow birds.
Really? FL already has a lot of NYC immigrants. Had no idea.
SW, the NY immigrants retired to Florida so they could vote for Debbie Wasserman whatever and Alan Grayson. That might not happen this time considering her forced resignation and mess she has made at DNC.
Should this mythical 6ft rise in sea level occur over the next century, they’ll hardly break a sweat in dealing with it.
Nor will we!
At the rate of approx. 1in/year, this ain’t no flash-flood folks!
Dave, the Progressives on this site think that Refrigerators and A/C units are as dangerous as ISIS. They know this because their leader Obama & Kerry said so. If Obama & Kerry really believe this, they should turn off all the A/C in the capitol and White House and do their part to save the planet.
Always devolves to politics for you doesn’t it? And it’s always the Dem’s fault.
Do us all a favor Agent and keep your fingers off the keyboard till you have something intelligent to contribute.
Thank goodness my apartment on A1A is on the seventh floor! I don’t see the water getting THAT high.
Oh no! Yogi’s iceberg will be the end of us yet when it completely melts and covers Miami and New York.
All of the icebergs on which I float melt, eventually, and nary a one has increased the ocean level as much as when Al Gore or Hillary wade in it.
Ill-ary won’t be wading much now or in the future….
http://theamericanmirror.com/shock-photo-grandma-hillary-helped-stairs/
Ocean levels won’t rise as much with only Gore wading in it. Millenials can breath easy.
The Dutch aren’t chuckling, its not like the water won’t rise on the East side of the Atlantic.
This should be an incentive for oil & gas well contractors to start using salt water to inject into the wells instead of fresh ground water. Saudi Arabia has been using salt water to inject into oil fields for almost ten years now to keep the pressure up. US oil field operators may have to desalinate the water before injecting but, they could use this in their never ending arguments with the EPA that they are helping to keep ocean water levels down.
Kent, the Saudi’s have been using Desalination plants for a very long time since they have little clean water to use. They have done their part to lower ocean levels since they draw from sea water. Perhaps NY & Miami should install these plants on their shores so the ocean won’t rise.
I am aware of the Saudi’s aggressive utilization of desalination plants. However, the Saudis paid Haliburton about $15B to build a pipeline from the gulf to one of their major oil fields to supply salt water to the injection wells they also drilled on the outer perimeter in order to retain pressure in that field. I live in the Barnett Shale area of Texas and a lot of us are upset with the gas companies for using fresh water for fracking instead of salt water. They use a LOT of fresh water in the fracking process. There is a lot of controversy over fracking to start with but, using fresh water vs salt water compounds the aggravation. My original comment hits on the issue that the US needs to use more of the salt water from the ocean for a number of different needs. It may not be a big contributor to holding down rising ocean levels but, the solution will probably be a cumulative effect of many different actions.
Perhaps all the states bordering the ocean and Gulf should put in Desalination plants and draw from the ocean to keep the levels down. California really suffers from water management and when they don’t get the rain and they tend to like the smelt fish more than their citizens.
Actually the Donald was saying he’s been talks with a few very important people in Mexico, some really big names. Names he can’t disclose, but big names, some big players.
Mexico is planning on purchasing Texico so they can increase production of mary jane. This will help get the Donald out of debt personal debt to Putin for some bad deals, really bad deals that he can’t disclose. These were made years ago and they are really bad.
Donald needs to pay Putin back and fast. He needs full market value for America’s cyst and if he doesn’t get it, well we are all in big trouble, really big trouble.
The only option is to flood Texico and build a wall around the Texican perimeter to retain the water so it doesn’t ruin the chances of this deal. This will help keep water levels down for a few years as we will finally be able to ween ourselves from oil once the cyst has been lanced and removed.
Once the sale is completed, we can leave the wall up for US protection, Mexico is making their money back with lots of pot deals, huge pot deals. Putin is satisfied until he finds another debt that needs to be paid back.
Unfortunately there will not be any high school football in Texico this year, Texico will be under construction.
Freaking hilarious, txmouth!
Every Texican will be issued a hard hat as the entire state is a construction zone. Don’t let OSHA catch you without your hard hat on. Fines, big fines, really big fines, okay.
If you want your wall, you can have your wall!!!
If you want your national confidential and top secret information kept secret, you’ll have your national confidential and top secret information kept secret and secure on government email servers only.
Gee Yogi, Good one!!
Option B would look something like this:
@yogi Just met with Putin, big things to happen in MidEast & China #Boom #Bang #nationalsecuritythis
Desalination plants are expensive to build and operate but, I think we would both agree that if the US builds a sufficiently large number of them that the cost would be reasonable. Texas oilman T Boone Pickens has been saying for years that we need to build a network of water pipelines in the US for the purpose of transferring water from one part of the country to another as needed. One of the biggest urguments against this is that few regions want to give us their excess fresh water when they have it – I know that I sure don’t. Large use of desalination plants using ocean water could be an answer to our water supply problems and help with keeping rising ocean levels manageble.
Insurance World needs to take a hard look at the coasts.
It could go bonkers in your lifetime kids.
Good one Kent. Cut all Federal department budgets by 20% and we would have more than enough money to build Desalination plants in numerous areas that need the water and reduce the ocean rise in the process. We wouldn’t have to be concerned with Yogi’s iceberg melting and flooding NY and Miami.
So cut the military by 20%, cut federal subsidies in oil/gas exploration by 20%? I’m with you there Boo Boo, but what will Texico do then?
Cut welfare 100% to those who don’t need it, and who stay home typing liberal stuff on IJ all day.
Yogi, how much waste and corruption resulted from the Stimulus that wasn’t a stimulus? The President said he would create shovel ready jobs and didn’t. He could have built 100 Desalination plants and lowered the sea level a foot on every coastal state if he was concerned about rising seas.
The latest message from Trump on the economy is to cut corporate taxes from 35% to 15%, get rid of the estate tax, get rid of the penalizing NAFTA and take a new direction on the Trans Pacific agreement where it will be more favorable to the US, not China & Japan. These things are sorely needed even if liberals don’t like it.
Great post Yogi!
We can definitely trim the fat on the wasted welfare. Now we just need to define welfare, and ensure that kids don’t go to bed hungry or without warmth.
We can then reconfigure the prison system to only house only violent offenders, televangelists, and white collar crime. Make them all bunk together in the same cells. Put Sheriff Joe Arpaio et al in prison for forcing the demand of the industrial prison complex. Prevent the transfer of property ownership during trials so they experience starting over from scratch.
Federal funding to build desalination plants would certainly jumpstart such a program but, there is a place in this for industry, private utilities and cooperatives to do so? Desalination plants are basically water utilities. I buy my water through a non-profit cooperative. I buy my electricity from a cooperative that in turn buys much of the electricity produced by a hydro-electric plant from the Brazos River authority which is part of the federal government. The federal government put up the money to build the power plant 60 years ago and it now turns a profit of millions of dollars per year for the federal government. It has paid for itself many times over and provides electricity to central Texas. Desalination plants are much like the hydro-electric plants in that they are an investment in our nations intrastructure that will use a plentiful resource and sell the product (water in this case) to consumers for many years. Why do you think that guys like T Boone Pickens have been buying up water rights? If the oil companies don’t want to use salt water (which corrodes pipe casing) then, give them an incentive to build desalination plants whose excess can be sold to water utilities.
Kent, I wonder how many times Hoover Dam has paid for itself to harness water from the Colorado river. We don’t seem to build large projects like that anymore, instead, we pay off donors to the Democratic party for more of the same old.
One and all: why can’t it be just about the fact that the science might be correct? no republican or democrat issues. Just science and prepare for the possibility that the scientists are correct and save our people? Just a thought.
Bob
OK Bob, I’ll bite.
How would you propose “saving us” from this horrific 1 inch/year rise in sea level?
Bob, I am probably not the only one of us that does agree with the scientist about global warming. The conversation is about how do we deal with this fact. Even if all the energy humans use daily were natural non-polluting such as solar, wind, hydro-electric or wave we would still have a global warming situation to deal with. If my home were 100% hydro-electric, wind & solar I would still be heating my home in the winter, running the AC in the summer and the energy heat exchange involved would still be heating the atmosphere. This conversation is about how to deal with the effects. Should the government or insurance carriers consider investing in projects that will use some of this extra water such as desalination plants that can pay a good return? The politicians have been talking about rebuilding our intra-structure – this could be part of that. What would be conversation be if the sea levels were dropping???
Bob, why can’t it be about the fact that your scientists are wrong? Do we spend trillions so we “might” save the planet to the tune of .000001 degree in 25 years?
Google Tarzan Boat. We should all buy one so when this global warming thing does hit, we all have something to do.
FFA, you can take your Tarzan boat out on Lake Michigan. Chicago may be under water soon if it continues to rise just like the oceans, right?