REPORT: Bush Family Compound At Kennebunkport Could Be Submerged By Global Warming
REPORT: Bush Family Compound At Kennebunkport Could Be Submerged By Global Warming
The Natural Resources Council of Maine this week released “one of the most complete depictions ever done of the potential impacts on Maine’s coastline from rising sea levels due to global warming.”
Using the latest available science, NRCM’s analysis shows that coastal businesses, homes, wildlife habitat, transportation systems, and some of the state’s most treasured places are highly vulnerable to sea-level rise.
One “treasured place” in extreme risk is the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport (noted by the yellow arrow below). The area in orange shows land that will be submerged by a sea level rise of 6 feet; the area in red will be underwater after a rise of just 3 feet.
Numerous studies on the future impacts of global warming, including the International Panel on Climate Change, have predicted a sea level rise of up to roughly 3 feet by the end of the century. In other words, unless the problem of climate change is taken seriously, the Bush vacation retreat will under water during the adult lives of Jenna and Barbara’s kids.
The Bush family aren’t the only ones who should be worried. “The Federal Emergency Management Agency estimates that no fewer than one in four U.S. buildings within 500 feet of a coastline will be destroyed by erosion by mid-century, with rising sea levels a big factor.” More on global warming at Climate Progress.
UPDATE: Correction: This post previously stated that the IPCC report predicted a sea level rise of “3 feet or more” by 2100. In fact, the report predicts a rise of up to 88 cm, or 2.85 feet, by 2100. Also, the original post incorrectly suggested that Barbara and Jenna’s would “grow up” by 2100. That has been corrected to note that the year 2100 could occur “in their adult lives.”
We regret the errors.
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I’m not ashamed to make the obvious comment: GOOD!!!!
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:15 pmI may earn some negative karma for this comment, but…
GO GLOBAL WARMING!!!
*cough* :-D
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:17 pmFinally, some good news on global warning!
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:18 pmIs this where the word “Irony” fits?
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:20 pm*smile*
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:23 pmThere’s always a silver lining. ;-)
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:25 pmSilver lining?
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:26 pmSuddenly, Bush will gain intense interest in the effects global warming!
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:27 pmIrony is so … ironic, eh?
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:27 pmDarn it….
The irony of air polluting oilmen being engulfed by the effects of global warming on the environment is too delicious….
The lord works in mysterious ways I tell ya
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:29 pmoh my god! you’re showing grainy low altitude pictures of the Bush compound in Kennebunkport? Don’t you know the terrorists and evildoers everywhere could get their hands on it and go attack our “glorius leader’?
..on the other hand..
–d
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:30 pmRW repsonse will be:
YOU PUBLISHED A MAP OF THEIR ESTATE WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION…..
Why do you hate America??????????
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:31 pmNa ga duht. The Kennebunkport waters will recede when Bar sneers at them and tells them they don’t belong on her beautiful land with her beautiful mind.
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:37 pmWhile it will be a tragedy if this should occur, I just can’t help but feel that if the Bush compound is submerged, it will be something they deserved.
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:41 pmSend the Army Corp of Engineers to build a levee! Quick! I’d say Catergory 3 protection is good enough.
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:53 pm“There is no such thing as global warming….glug, glug, glug….”
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:54 pmIt’s like Katrina for whitie!
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:54 pmWah hoooooo, so sorry bushies….Were broke, get you’re own sand bags.
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:02 pmIt’s not likely going to affect the Bushes much. They’ll just buy some other piece of land near the sore. Problem solved.
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:02 pmNaw George will drive to Wlaker point, in his ford pickup, jeezus on dash, grab a beer and a shotgun….and
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:03 pmHey we could take all the bullsh_t that bush has regurgitated over the years, that should put walker point, by my calculations, about 20 feet above the surf.
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:05 pmI dont care if it floods or freezes
As long as I have my plastic Jeezus!
Comment by Dick — September 22, 2006 @ 6:03 pm
Very catchy. Great bumper sticker! :D
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:10 pmGuess who will push for a special bill for the US to indemtify those who lost land because of the government’s inaction and will be first in line with an inflated and dishonest estimate of the value of there property.
I say that if there is any justice that Pelican Bay becomes the new Bush family compound for 20 to life.
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:10 pmThe story came out the same day DUHbya changed his mind on global warming. He was against it before he was for it.
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:16 pmNo wonder Bush has flip-flopped on global warming.
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:22 pmNo wonder Bush has flip-flopped on global warming.
Yeh mebbe instead of bubble boy we should call him sandal man
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:29 pmMaybe the entire South will disappear under water!
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:45 pmyou want to see an appropriations pass the rubberstamp republican congress quicker than you can say “plutocracy”, just propose $20 billion in tax dollars for levees around the bush compound…no problem.
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:47 pm.
Is it me or does Kennebunkport look like a penis?
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:53 pmNah, he will be on a lake playing his guitar (as usual)…
What, the house is under water? But, we thought global warming was not happening during my time in office??? - GWB
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:54 pmYou guys are morons. This post represents modern liberalism…what a total waste. After looking at this site, all I see are disgruntled, immature, uneducated supporters of a movement that is encapsulated by Ralph Nader and Al Gore - complete wacko’s that have to turn this liberal ship of negativity 180 degrees around before anyone would ever take your issues seriously.
Please notice that i did not say YOU, but YOUR ISSUES seriously since everyo once in a while people like Clinton will come along and fool people into believing that socialized medicine is moderate. So you may fool people into taking your leaders seriously, but give me a break if you think your issues are cared about in 95% of US Households.
Move to venezuela and you will fit right in.
I can cleary see you’re nuts. :)
Complete
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:03 pmLet’s all pitch in and buy Babs some stilts.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:05 pmOur president does not care. First, because the compound won’t be submerged until after he is long dead. And second, because it is his father’s compound - and he hates his father. He might be upset if it was Rove’s or Cheney’s compound instead.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:09 pmSorry, FrustratedinNYC. What was your point? How are we demonstrating our lack of education in this post, pray tell.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:12 pmDear Frustrated in NYC: Granted, not all comments here are brilliant or the best examples of liberal thought. However your dismissal of all liberal thought based on those few comments betrays your own intellectual laziness. Not surprising, considering the intellectual laziness of the entire Executive Branch of our government. What is to be gained from the comments that you have read is the knowledge that a growing percentage of the American population - not all of them liberal - are angry and disgusted with the arrogance and short-sightedness of a group of draft-dodgers who are now mishandling their war of choice against Iraq (which had already been disarmed and paralyzed by two no-fly zones and was no threat to the US at all).
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:19 pmmy point is that this is just a place where bush haters come to enjoy the banter wiht other bush haters. no ideas, no solutions, just haha - look at you, your house is going to to under according to this random prediction of global warming….and then a series of “good”, “serves him right”, “go global warming” comments that truly define your approach to open debate.
No facts about global warming, no substantive debate, just a bunch of raving lunatics that think that its enough to post idiotic comments to this site to spur on change.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:22 pmGuess Frustrated think’s we can’t have any fun, ever, like the Rep’s…Sorry you are frustrated in NY…..Take a night out and try to get “Lucky”…Lighten up it will improve you’re averages……
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:26 pmTP links to Mike Kidwell’s (an advocate, not a climate scientist) WAPO Op-ed. It’s full of factual errors, such as confusing hurricane power dissipation with wind speed:
One study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded that hurricane wind speeds have doubled in the past 30 years…
He’s incorrectly citing Kerry Emanuel’s paper in Aug 2005 Nature:
Theory and modelling predict that hurricane intensity should increase with increasing global mean temperatures, but work on the detection of trends in hurricane activity has focused mostly on their frequency and shows no trend. Here I define an index of the potential destructiveness of hurricanes based on the total dissipation of power, integrated over the lifetime of the cyclone, and show that this index has increased markedly since the mid-1970s.
When advocates make these kind of false statements they lose all credibility. Keep it up TP. You don’t know what the hell your talking about.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:27 pmherrick - there have been draft dodgers in the white house since 1992. Which ones were you talking about?
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:30 pmThe sooner the better
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:35 pmHalf full is an improvement! Always look on the bright side!
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:36 pmIt is interesting that GHWB bought a house on land that looks like a big phallic symbol. One more way he and his sons try to compensate…
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:37 pmmy point is that this is just a place where bush haters come to enjoy the banter wiht other bush haters. no ideas, no solutions, just haha - look at you, your house is going to to under according to this random prediction of global warming….and then a series of “goodâ€, “serves him rightâ€, “go global warming†comments that truly define your approach to open debate.
No facts about global warming, no substantive debate, just a bunch of raving lunatics that think that its enough to post idiotic comments to this site to spur on change.
Comment by FrustratedinNYC
RANT! RANT! RANT!
All you have to do is follow the links…But maybe some don’t like reading all that stuff, Anway, great RANT. SO what do you suggest? The GOP has wasted billions on lord knows what, NOLA has been low-balled in bids which has stymied reconstruction. I drive a 87 honda I got for 400 bucks at an Auction for Kids. I use maybe 5 bucks a week in gas..I am sitting here right now, in Texas,[pretty warm today] in an unairconditioned garage. I can assure you my neighbors up and down the street care alot less about global warming than the people posting here.
They are glued to the DAMN TV.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:38 pmFrustratedinNYC….you are obviously becoming old and bitter…not very pretty….why don’t you try “Having Great Time in NYC“?
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:40 pmWhich draft dodgers am I talking about? How about: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, for starters. Mr. Clinton at least admitted that he was opposed to the Vietnam War at the time. However, president Bush, Mr. Cheney and Mr. Rumsfeld make no such anti-war comments. In fact, their official position is that there was nothing intrinsically wrong with the Vietnam War. No mistakes were made - except, perhaps, withdrawal. When a man opposes a war and dodges a draft, one can disagree with his tactics, but at least there is consistency. When a man dodges a draft and then espouses that the war is good, we have a word for it. It is called “cowardice.”
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:44 pmDear Frustrated in NYC: As for this site being a place where bush-bashers come to laff it up with other bush-bashers, if you truly believe that, then I have one question: why are YOU here?
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:47 pmAnd I hope they are all visiting for a family picnic when it goes under.
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:05 pmherrick - nice reconciliation of your low opinion of draft dodgers and your high opinion of Clinton. “Well at least THAT president was an america hating oxford student at the time” which wins him respect in your party. Any wonder why the dems havent won an election in a while. AND, I know you can ‘respect’ whatever it is you define about Clinton becuase it’s not Bush - just like I’m sure you “respect” his privacy when he’s having sex with teenagers in the oval office. I gues you have to have a Lot’ o respect for a disbarred felon of an ex president when he defines your standard for someone with integrity. How does compromising yourself on behalf of Clinton feel?
Why don’t you try a few ideas instead of bush hating, that was my point.
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:08 pmNico, you said this would happen by the end of the century — I’m thinking any kids Jenna and Barb have will be grown decades — many decades — before the end of the century.
Still, you make a good point about the effects of global warming. :)
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:10 pmSeeeeee, something good comes out of everything…..
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:20 pmShhhhhhhh, be quiet dont tell him.
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:26 pmActually that hunk of land doesn’t at all look like a phallic symbol; rather it looks much like that flaccid “electile dysfunction” called Florida. Except here we see a clearly uncircumcised sample.
Any inferences drawn from this about the psychology of inferiority, missing testicles of despots and the danger of nuclear warmongering, however, are a bit farfetched. Maybe.
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:28 pmDear Frustrated in NYC: It took you 24 minutes to come back with that? Wow. Was steam coming out of your ears? How is it that Clinton “hated America”? I thought he was only protesting the policies of the American government. Specifically its military adventurism. How is it that my opinion of Clinton is a “high opinion of Clinton”? Did I say I have a high opinion of Clinton or did I say that I can at least have an understanding of Clinton’s anti-Vietnam War protest meshing with his admission that he was opposed to that war? And clearly I have utterly intimidated you because you have once again trotted out the “sex with Monica Lewinsky” trump card like all idiotic neocons do as if they’ve just discovered the neutron-bomb of intellectual/political debate that leaves buildings standing while if burns the flesh and disintigrates the bone of liberal opposition. Here’s some news. You guys got as much milage on Lewinski as you’re gonna get. If you want to get in the ring of debate, learn a new move. That one stinks like the pathetic, lazy, out-of-touch, out-of-date B.S. that it is. And, by the way, you never answered the facts that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld all dodged the draft while never coming to grips that the Vietnam War turned out to be the wrong war fought in the wrong way at the wrong time, and how those cowardly draft-dodgers are now promoting this war and that the majority - yes, majority - of Americans completely oppose how president Bush has handled himself in regard to the Iraq War and how most Americans (yes, most) disapprove of how mr. Bush has conducted his presidency. Why are you subjecting yourself to this level of humiliation?
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:42 pmI’m in New Mexico. But I don’t admitted to being sexually frustrated here. Or I guess you were responding to someone in NYC.
Anyway, about this Flood…
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:45 pmOnce I would have said “piss on ‘em”, wishing the liquid inundating their enclave to be urine but now, given the current pro-torture argument, poetic justice dicates that fluid to be blood. May their God damn the entire Bush clan.
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:46 pmI would be happy, but the Bushes have the ability — nay, the proclivity, which they must constantly fight — to return to reptilian form. They will just continue as usual.
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:54 pmDear Frustrated in NYC: By the way - who said I hated Bush? For all you know, I voted for him. And if you’ve actually read my comments, you’d learn that my concerns are more about my concern for America and truthfulness and integrity than with Bush & Co. How do you know that I’m a liberal? Perhaps I’m just a person who believes in the right of a people to question a government. Don’t you believe in that, too? Or do you just believe in that when a Democrat is running the Executive Branch? And don’t waste my time with the “truthfulness” of Clinton. If you read the transcripts, he lied, but it wasn’t a never-ending stream of lies as with our current president. He lied about having a sexual relationship with an intern while testifying in a civil case where the testimony was judged to be immaterial to the case which was then settled out of court. And he lied on at least two occasions when he declared that he was never alone with Lewinsky. Beyond that, his testimony was essentially truthful - without being honest and forthcoming - which is all you can expect when a hostile lawyer is asking you questions. If the lawyer asks you questions that leave you an intellectual loophole - then you take it. Now shut up about the past and get a grip on reality and the present. Soldiers and innocent civilians are dying every day in Iraq. What are you going to do about that? Apologize for a president who has lied to the world again and again? Or are you going to show the courage to take an independent stand and speak your own mind instead of regurgitating Rove’s talking points? I might suspect you of being just another RNC operative penetrating a left-of-center website, but your debating chops are so flaccid that you must only be some person whose got nothing better to do on a Friday night. Wait - that might describe me, too!
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:57 pmYou are forgetting…I don’t think W is that fond off Kennebunkport. It’s his fathers hang out and as you may recall he answers to a higher father. So in fact this may explain why W is so reluctant to do anything about Global warming he wants exorcise the demons left by his father ( earthly father that is)
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:00 pmThat is one limp, unappealing phallic symbol there, folks. And no balls?
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:06 pmWait untill O’Liely finds out who put that big yellow arrow on the map showing the terraowrists where Bush lives.
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:22 pmHope frat boy is sleeping in his bed when it happesn.
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:35 pmMan you libs are easy.
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:37 pmYou are all so naive. Future Bushies will just have a giant dyke built around the area to maintain the property. Of course, it will be at taxpayer expense because it is the future site of the G.W. Bush Library.
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:39 pmJust as long as bush is sleeping there when it goes under.
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:43 pmAmerica’s Least Wanted
Sighhhhhh, finally some good-news…
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:45 pmFrustratedinNYC, cant help but wonder how you got your name… frustrated at lack of sex maybe? That would explain the lame behavior of trolling for the sake of it.
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:45 pmDear Frustrated in NYC: If you haven’t given up and gone to bed, yet - you have a right to talk to me about “respect” for a president when you explain to me how it is that a president who lied to the world about the existence of “mobile chemical weapons labs” that were nothing more than a bunch of delivery trucks and aluminum tubes that could not possibly be used for nuclear weapons as “evidence” of a nuclear weapons program and the assertion that UN weapons inspectors couldn’t find germ warfare evidence because Saddam had buried it in the sands of Iraq and that Iraq was seeking nuclear materials from an African nation when all such assertions had been thoroughly discredited, etc., etc. And don’t give me that George Tenet “slam-dunk” BS. Tenet was a political animal. And he saw that Cheney and Rumsfeld had created their own “intelligence” operation within the Pentagon. He started to get an idea that legit intel wasn’t going to fly and he did what he thought he needed to in order to save his own career. If you know anything about how the CIA works - which you probably don’t - assets provide raw data. Then analysts determine the best-case, worst-case and most-likely scenarios. Most presidents accept the “most likely scenarios.” Not mr. Bush. He relied on his cadre of neo-con ops in the Pentagon to tell him what he wanted to hear. Then - in a moment reminiscent of the “I’m shocked to find there’s gambling in here” moment in the movie “Casablanca,” he pretended to be shocked that Iraq wasn’t the slam-dunk Tenet said it would be.
And then he awarded him a “medal of freedom.” I could go on, but Frustrated in NYC, you’re not worth my time. You don’t have the intellectual or political chops to make me think hard about my responses. All you do is throw slow, fat pitches across the center of home plate. Even guys who love to slam it out of the park get tired after awhile.
I actually have to work for a living - and wake up very early tomorrow. Good night.
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:48 pmNo problem… W’s with Jesus and can walk on water…
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:58 pmherrick - nice take. I think I heard that same rant on Al Franken last week - and the week before - and the week before - and the…..
I’m sure your alarm is set early to open the record shop or make the donuts. Have a good, angry day like always.
I as a fat cat rich country club replublican will be hitting the links around 11am. If you want to join me - come up with something more original than the DNC talking points on how there were no WMDs.
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:32 pmGeorge Bush Junior does NOT care about his dad’s house in Maine, so if it gets submerged he could care less!
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:59 pmBetween reading this and Sen. George Allen’s “Revelations” (pun intended) this past week, I come to see once again. . .
There really is a God.
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:02 pm#75 You dumb wop (I just made up that word. Doesn’t really mean anything…kinda means friend even though I have a history of racism and extremist politics). :) I would have used the n-word but I think I would have been banned.
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:09 pmTHE PUBLIC LINKS ? Big fat cat repubs , goes private , you ‘re so full of BS .Golf such a big deal , i bet you never broke 90 , just talk , talk. Go wash your balls .
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:18 pmThose who live by the sword, shall die by the sword………….so said Global warming. IF ya F with me, I shall Fa with ya too, as well as Fa with yo mama and papa. Thank God for Global Warming!
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:20 pmgrey eagle - nice one. Wash you balls, that’s good. They could use a washing for sure.
I have been on the south side of 90 many more times than the north, but I am no pro. Private for sure, manicured greens, fine cart gals, cheap illegal labor, you know - the usual.
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:28 pmGrey Eagle, I have broken 90…in 9 holes…at the par 3 course. I could never be a rightie!!
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:35 pmF…ed inNY ..You bragged too much …. such an immature … full of Ma caca. Oh well u have to make up for sleeping alone to night.
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:48 pmTest?
September 23rd, 2006 at 12:46 amThe Bush family will have picked up stakes and sold out long before this comes to pass, moving to 2020’s fashionable redoubt for self-serving cronyistic slimeballs like the Bushes. Crud like the Bush family never learns, they just take their ill-gotten gains from gaming the system and saying to hell with the poor and the needy.
September 23rd, 2006 at 12:54 amMan, their place is way out there on the head of that limp penis, isn’t it?
September 23rd, 2006 at 1:24 amOwned by nature.
September 23rd, 2006 at 8:15 amGOOOD! WHat goes around Comes Around! HHahhahaha
September 23rd, 2006 at 8:54 amBlah, blah, blah.
A comet might hit the earth too. And Lindsay Lohan might do MY JOHNSON or Koffi Annan might give all that scandeled oil for food money to poor people in Africa, but I doubt it.
More junk science and woulda-coulda-shoulda fueuling bush derangemnet syndrome.
Blah, blah, blah.
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:56 amBlah, blah, blah.
A comet might hit the earth too. And Lindsay Lohan might do MY JOHNSON or Koffi Annan might give all that scandeled oil for food money to poor people in Africa, but I doubt it.
More junk science and woulda-coulda-shoulda fueling bush derangement syndrome.
Blah, blah, blah.
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:58 amHow high do the waters have to rise to flood all of the US?
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:40 amJust wondering.
When Kennebunkport goes under, I hope they send Michael Brown, Chertoff, and the rest of the FEMA hacks to take care of them. Maybe Babs can book a spot on the Astrodome floor since she thinks its such a great place.
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:41 amWhen Kennebunkport is sinking, and in need of sandbags, we will tell Bush a version of the Republican motto of “I got mine, get outta my way and go get your own.”
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:53 amYour facts are wrong. The IPCC has not “predicted a sea level rise of 3 feet or more.” It has predicted a sea level rise of 9 to 88 cm by 2100, with a central value of 48 cm across all economic scenarios (IPCC Third Assessment Report, Volume 1, Chapter 11, Executive Summary (http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/409.htm). Your value of “3 feet or more” is a gross overstatement.
What other facts are you manipulating to make your point on climate change?
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:57 amWe should all go north with our hair driers and melt some more polar ice.
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:08 amYour facts are wrong in your post on the expected sea level rise at Kennebunkport. The IPCC has not “predicted a sea level rise of 3 feet or more.” It has predicted a sea level rise of 9 to 88 cm by 2100, with a central value of 48 cm across all economic scenarios (IPCC Third Assessment Report, Volume 1, Chapter 11, Executive Summary (http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/409.htm). Your value of “3 feet or more” is a gross overstatement, and your time frame (”by the time Jenna and Barbara’s kids grow up,” viz. ~2040) is wrong too.
Now that I see you manipulate the facts, I will be much more skeptical of your other writing on climate change.
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:14 amLet’s hope they are having a family reunion when it happens.
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:14 amAh jus wana say,” Thank ya Jeeeezuz.”
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:54 amAh jus wana say,”Thank ya Jeeezuz.”
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:56 am[…] In other words, “the Bush vacation retreat will be under water by the time Jenna and Barbara’s kids grow up.†A rise in sea level of only three feet – which is a conservative estimate supported by many studies worldwide – will do the trick. […]
September 23rd, 2006 at 12:15 pmI’ve got property about 20 nm north of Walker Point. I’ve been pushing the sibs to consider selling it. Storm surges will be getting more brutal along the coast….Walker Point got banged hard 15-20 years ago…..I’ll bet FEMA was all over that. I can forsee a day when the right storm conditions sweeps the estate right out to sea. I want to be there, standing on route 9 with a bottle of single malt, toasting its demise and marveling at the symbolic and harmonic convergence of the event.
And herrick….you scare me. I had to turn my face away from the screen several times while reading your replies to FiNYC. I get queasy when I see an intellectual flogging as you have administered to the poor political prawn that’s making minimum wage on a post-for-pay Republican welfare 527 program. It’s hard work being a Republican these days.
September 23rd, 2006 at 12:43 pmIt is ironic that there are still flat earth society members sounding off on anthropogenic global warming.
They are but about three or 4 dozen left and to see we have some on the board shows how worried they are.
386 Parts per million of CO2 and climbing. You think they’d get it. By the way the latest is that the warming is actually occurring faster than some of the worst modeling projections. Everyone and i mean everyone will be concerned playing in a life near you.
Anyone who does not take this seriously will have theri come-uppence-come-to-Jesus-moment if its correctly happening this fast. For you may not run or hide.
Roger Hill
September 23rd, 2006 at 12:45 pm“By the way the latest is that the warming is actually occurring faster than some of the worst modeling projections. ”
Exactly….it’s the rate of change/reaction and the acceleration that we should be worried about.
We pretty much know that the body of science is on one side and the for profit,corporate climate abusers are on the other. You’d think the average Republican (a political pool that is evaporating in numbers and IQ) would think about this-
Let’s say we lefties/commies/pinkos/islamofascists are totally wrong on our assumptions about climate change and its consequences. What have we done? Invested in a better environment for all of mankind’s kids and grandkids.
But what if they are wrong? They will be aiding and abetting in their own self destruction. Not too bright if you ask me.
Republicans are reminding me of dinosaurs…..creatures unable to adapt to the environment when their climate changed suddenly. Unfortunately, their inability to face change and admit truth because of the political consequences, hurts us all.
September 23rd, 2006 at 1:19 pmHey! Anyone know Monica’s cell number?
THANK’S Life should be fun and not burdened with taxes, climate change,
September 23rd, 2006 at 2:30 pmwar, and all that junk. Life should be filled with light adventure, black stockings, soft nights, crimson lips, and……. well wake up, live and
leave America!!!!!! Let the Red states supply the monies and bodies
for George n his friends (PS- Democrats no different-only Light version)
If only we could be so lucky!!!!!!!!!!!
September 23rd, 2006 at 2:54 pmUntil now, I hadn’t seen anything positive that could come from global warming. In the words of the Decider, “Bring it on!”.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:10 pmToo bad it can’t hit Crawford or Washington DC or where that little jerk is right now!
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:45 pmCouldn’t agree with Debra more but he’s a BIG jerk–btw have read all posts from “FrustratedinNYC” . I’m from NYC too but I’m NOT frustrated. I just think that this person is a Bush/Cheney loving neo-con who promotes constant war in the mid-east. I wonder if this person ever spent 5 seconds in boot camp
September 23rd, 2006 at 7:01 pmFrustrated in NY is just here to goad, folks. Ignore him (or her).
The more attention you give to people like this, the more empowered they feel. It’s the typical bully MO. They egg you on until you’re the one who comes unhinged. That’s what they strive for. They’ll say and do the most outrageous things to outrage us. Just ignore him (or her). Don’t even acknowledge him (or her) and he’ll (or she’ll) eventually implode.
Your indignation (as righteous as it is) is their oxygen.
September 23rd, 2006 at 8:54 pm#90 - that study is 5 years old. There’s been some disturbing findings recently that may have changed the equation. For example, an unexpected and unprecedented release of methane, another green-house gas, from what used to be permafrost.
I’m guessing it is going to be more cataclysmic than the scientists are predicting. Imagine, if you will, what will happen to the sea levels if the glaciers on Greenland and Antarctica reach a critical breaking point and suddenly slide into the ocean. If that happens, sea levels would rise dramatically.
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:31 pm[…] Karma Strikes Again I hope Chimperor Disgustus knows how to swim. […]
September 24th, 2006 at 1:11 amSave the US: Throw the chimp an anchor!
September 24th, 2006 at 3:40 amRoger Hill,
Their cummupance when they get to Jeesus is great. Yeah, like he will say:”
I gave you dominion over the earth and you are up here EARLY, why exactly?????”
The Neo-cons are rabid. After the LAMONT win, they realize that Democracy is STILL alive somewhere here in the States, and they seek to squach any and all forms of the citizens controlling their government. And WILL Stop at NOTHING in that goal.
September 24th, 2006 at 1:19 pmRe “!07–Meowoman–not only would I throw the chimpster an anchor I’d also attach a cement bag and a solid gold 400 oz troy brick bar with it to assure maximum sinking!
September 24th, 2006 at 5:38 pmNice, level headed rants by you clowns! The earth goes through cycles.
Since 1922, the average temp wouldwide has gone up by 1.5 degrees but your leftie, hand picked scientist will never bring up that FACT.
If you can’t see, they have created a whole new cottage industy praying on the fears of you “Sky is Falling (insert warming) crowd.
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September 26th, 2006 at 11:46 pm[…] [My idea for the SEIU’s Since Sliced Bread campaign was to use the rebuilding of New Orleans and its protections from high wind and water as a laboratory for protecting coasts worldwide. If we don’t figure out how to stop the melting of ice at the poles, there will be huge dislocations from all coastal areas. Even Kennebunkport will be under water. I didn’t win the competition, but here are eminent scientists and economists saying what I said. Maybe someday someone other than you few dedicated readers will begin to pay attention to what I say.—Caro] […]
October 28th, 2006 at 7:56 pm