Re: OT: More Nails in the Global Warming Scam's Coffin

On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:14:12 -0700, Don Y
<blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

On 3/23/2024 3:00 PM, bitrex wrote:

Meanwhile, cranky wingnut "I don't believe in dat climate change stuff!" owners
of beachfront property (naturally!) want the state/taxpayer to pitch in to save
their property from the rising sea:
 
<https://www.instagram.com/krazykarens2020/reel/C4mb8m3LLO8/>
 
I expect they're going to take a heart-warming bath, alright. "Them dirty poors
are stealing our hard-earned money! Taxation is theft by the state! Ack here
comes the sea, come save us mommy state! Glub, glub, glub..."

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I suspect even the farmers in the flyover states are starting to realize
that their primary asset (acreage) can't be relocated if the local climate
makes it "unproductive" ("Hey!  Let's put up a WINDFARM!!")

https://extension.entm.purdue.edu/newsletters/pestandcrop/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/fig1.jpeg

This pattern extends over many crops and many countries.

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[Latest surveys continue to show increasing (US) belief in climate change...
the differences seem to be who/how to deal with it:  "MY assets should be
protected but why should *I* have to bear that cost?"]
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Disney will be the Florida property to watch.  Far enough from the coast to
not be immediately threatened (and, able -- at some expense -- to move
their "attractions" elsewhere) yet likely keenly aware that the long
term play doesn't seem to be to remain in place...

Disney World is about 160 feet above sea level. At the current sea
level rise, it will get wet in about 20,000 years. But of course,
we'll have another ice age well before that, and sea level will drop.