The White House has tasked all of the federal agencies with coming up with adaptation plans. In other words, how can the agriculture department come up with ways for farmers to adapt to the drought that we know is coming? How can the transportation and housing and urban development departments help cities and towns adapt to the storms that we know are coming; to build roads and bridges that we know will be safer in a world of higher sea levels; to build infrastructure that can handle more intense flooding?
Editor's note: While we have to work on mitigation, in some ways, it is too late in the sense that human induced climate change is here. It may not be possible to undo the damage we've done for centuries. In the meantime we will have to adapt. How will climate change affect Brockport? What ideas do you? The Brockporter will be reporting on these possibilities in future articles which will appear on most Thursdays. Leave your ideas about how Brockporters will adapt to climate change in the comments. If you would like to contribute an article to this feature email it to davidgmarkham@gmail.com.
Sen. James Imhoff (R-OK) is noted for suggesting that climate change is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. He's also the ranking minority members on the Senate's Environment and Public Works committee.
Wonder why nothing ever gets done about climate change?
I would invite Imhoff and all his neanderthal colleagues down to Delaware, where up to 11 percent of the state could be swept away by flooding next century due to rising sea levels. It might be hard for Imhoff and his fellow deniers to convince residents who lost their home that the damage is all in their mind.
Yes, climate change is real. There is no serious scientific debate about it. None. Out of 13,950 peer-reviewed climate change articles studies between 1991 and 2012, a grand total of 23 reject global warming. That's 0.16 percent, or to say it another way, 99.84 percent of scientists agree that climate change is real.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, what does that mean for Delaware? Unfortunately, due to geologic factors specific to our state, our state is literally sinking. Sea levels in Delaware are rising twice as quickly as the global average, making everyone in the state a coastal resident. I always wanted to own a beach home, but on our current trajectory, my townhouse in Bear will soon qualify.
- See more at: http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/component/flexicontent/item/51596-climate-change-makes-every-house-in-delaware-a-beach-home-#sthash.GdDz4ZOk.dpuf
Wonder why nothing ever gets done about climate change?
I would invite Imhoff and all his neanderthal colleagues down to Delaware, where up to 11 percent of the state could be swept away by flooding next century due to rising sea levels. It might be hard for Imhoff and his fellow deniers to convince residents who lost their home that the damage is all in their mind.
Yes, climate change is real. There is no serious scientific debate about it. None. Out of 13,950 peer-reviewed climate change articles studies between 1991 and 2012, a grand total of 23 reject global warming. That's 0.16 percent, or to say it another way, 99.84 percent of scientists agree that climate change is real.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, what does that mean for Delaware? Unfortunately, due to geologic factors specific to our state, our state is literally sinking. Sea levels in Delaware are rising twice as quickly as the global average, making everyone in the state a coastal resident. I always wanted to own a beach home, but on our current trajectory, my townhouse in Bear will soon qualify.
- See more at: http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/component/flexicontent/item/51596-climate-change-makes-every-house-in-delaware-a-beach-home-#sthash.GdDz4ZOk.dpuf
Sen. James Imhoff (R-OK) is noted for suggesting that climate change is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. He's also the ranking minority members on the Senate's Environment and Public Works committee.
Wonder why nothing ever gets done about climate change?
I would invite Imhoff and all his neanderthal colleagues down to Delaware, where up to 11 percent of the state could be swept away by flooding next century due to rising sea levels. It might be hard for Imhoff and his fellow deniers to convince residents who lost their home that the damage is all in their mind.
Yes, climate change is real. There is no serious scientific debate about it. None. Out of 13,950 peer-reviewed climate change articles studies between 1991 and 2012, a grand total of 23 reject global warming. That's 0.16 percent, or to say it another way, 99.84 percent of scientists agree that climate change is real.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, what does that mean for Delaware? Unfortunately, due to geologic factors specific to our state, our state is literally sinking. Sea levels in Delaware are rising twice as quickly as the global average, making everyone in the state a coastal resident. I always wanted to own a beach home, but on our current trajectory, my townhouse in Bear will soon qualify.
- See more at: http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/component/flexicontent/item/51596-climate-change-makes-every-house-in-delaware-a-beach-home-#sthash.GdDz4ZOk.dpuf
Wonder why nothing ever gets done about climate change?
I would invite Imhoff and all his neanderthal colleagues down to Delaware, where up to 11 percent of the state could be swept away by flooding next century due to rising sea levels. It might be hard for Imhoff and his fellow deniers to convince residents who lost their home that the damage is all in their mind.
Yes, climate change is real. There is no serious scientific debate about it. None. Out of 13,950 peer-reviewed climate change articles studies between 1991 and 2012, a grand total of 23 reject global warming. That's 0.16 percent, or to say it another way, 99.84 percent of scientists agree that climate change is real.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, what does that mean for Delaware? Unfortunately, due to geologic factors specific to our state, our state is literally sinking. Sea levels in Delaware are rising twice as quickly as the global average, making everyone in the state a coastal resident. I always wanted to own a beach home, but on our current trajectory, my townhouse in Bear will soon qualify.
- See more at: http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/component/flexicontent/item/51596-climate-change-makes-every-house-in-delaware-a-beach-home-#sthash.GdDz4ZOk.dpuf
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