ocean conditions are changing due to Rapid Global Climate Shift

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  1. michael pierzga
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    With Florida , rising sealevel will obviously mean that tourists will have to move their beach chairs further up the beach and that all those Condos will tip over and form huge breakwaters. Not to big a deal , just take new pictures for travel agent brochures and add floating docks to convert the toppled condos into marinas.

    The true catastrophe will be from the rising sea level polluting the huge everglades fresh water aquifer with salt. Agriculture will suffer. .
     
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    Holland is under sea level now!!! they don't have a hope.

    That should open up some more canals for European recreational boating.

    Might even get right down to Torremolinos or Sote Grande.

    I do'nt like Dutch much anyway, standing a round with there finger in a dyke and smoking a pot joint.

    Come to think of it Hong Kong airport has'nt much hope either or Thias Suvanaboom that floods if it rains and is nick named the swamp. Great engineers are Thais.
     
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    Crap! I forgot! it was my turn on the Harlingen dyke today.... O dear :S
     
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    And stub out that joint..................
     
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    ancient kayaker aka Terry Haines

    "Poor countries, including small island states and the least developed countries, were looking for a decision to create an international mechanism to address losses and damages caused by climate change. The mechanism would open the door to possible compensation from affluent countries "

    - global warming is beginning to sound like a vast plan for generating new employment opportunities around the World as shore-based communities are forced take to structures mounted on stilts and rafts . . .
     
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    I suspect it will end up that the only mechanism for helping poor countries, is to allow them free entry into the unaffected countries.

    I am looking at the typhoon pictures on TV from the Philippines where 5 million people have been affected badly.

    Actually, it looks like they will be increasing the CO2 when they have to burn all the smashed building and vegetation in the cleanup.
     
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    ancient kayaker aka Terry Haines

    - I don't think that's likely to happen. The main problem with the globe today is too many people with too much expectations. Multipling these together has resulted in too much energy demand, satisfying which has released too much CO2. Possible cures are:

    Less people
    Less energy - reduced expectations
    Energy sources producing less CO2

    This is all very sensible and logical. That's not at all how humans conduct their affairs . . . humanity will not start shovelling until the cr@p rises much further.
     
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    One of the reasons I don't take AGW seriously. We have the technology now to go to a lot less CO2 power system. We aren't doing it in any serious way. Indeed Germany is shutting down their fission systems and going back to coal. Wind power is a sick joke and people are slowly coming to realise that the joke is actually on them.

    Anyway I want 1 to 2m of sea level rise so I've turned on my air conditioner. As Tasmanian power is primarily hydroelectric, this won't have much effect but every little bit helps.

    PDW
     
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    ancient kayaker aka Terry Haines

    - I know that was intended as humerous, but it also illustrates my point very well . . .
     
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    do poor people realise that if all the poor people come to the rich countries there wont be any rich countries.
    time for some mass education
     

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    It makes me laugh when I hear developing countries state ...YOU CAUSED THE PROBLEM, HAND OVER THE CASH.

    Simply look at the mess that the developing countries have bred in the past one hundred years.

    These are the global warming years. The population "Hockey Stick "
     

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