{"id":256,"date":"2019-08-21T17:09:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T21:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/?p=256"},"modified":"2020-07-21T20:35:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T00:35:17","slug":"climate-change-is-real-but-theres-nothing-man-can-except-plan-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/2019\/08\/21\/climate-change-is-real-but-theres-nothing-man-can-except-plan-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Is Real but there&#8217;s nothing Man can EXCEPT PLAN for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=WordSection1>\n<p class=MsoNormal><b>Climate Change Is Real &#8211; but there&#8217;s nothing Man can do about it &#8211; except <u>plan for it.<o:p><\/o:p><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal>1. We have hundreds of thousands &#8211; even millions &#8211; of people living in &#8216;low lying&#8217; and &#8216;basin&#8217; areas across the country &#8211; many as bad as New Orleans [<b>no one should live there &#8211; anywhere &#8211; where dams hold back the water and you are in a geographical &#8216;bowl&#8217;!!!]<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal>2. These millions of people will soon <b>need to be relocated&nbsp; [to higher ground<\/b>]; plus, we will need to build new metropolitan areas as the climate changes &#8211; and we need to do this quickly [within maybe two decades &#8211; or less].<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><b>Climate Change is real<\/b> (!) &#8211; however, I would, more than, quibble &#8211; I&#8217;d argue &#8211; that there is very little &#8216;man&#8217; can do to change it! It is a process started millions of years ago &#8211; it is cyclic and such changes will continue for millions of years into the future (in spite of any mitigation Man attempts).<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><b>The ice <u>will<\/u> melt!<\/b><i> All of it<\/i> &#8230; and <b>the waters <u>will<\/u> rise<\/b> &#8211; around the planet; rather than use it in politics &#8211; <b><u>we need to plan for it<\/u><\/b><u>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal>Sea Levels Will Rise <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\"Helvetica\",\"sans-serif\";color:#262626;background:#FEFEFE'>&quot;There is enough ice in Greenland to raise the sea levels by 7.5 meters, that&#8217;s about 25 feet, an enormous volume of ice, and that would be devastating to coastlines all around the planet,&quot; said Willis. &quot;We should be retreating already from the coastline if we are looking at many meters [lost] in the next century or two.&quot;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\"Helvetica\",\"sans-serif\";color:#262626;background:#FEFEFE'>Here is a link to article based on a recent Scientific Study: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/19\/weather\/greenland-nasa-climate-battle-intl\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/19\/weather\/greenland-nasa-climate-battle-intl\/index.html<\/a><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal>The U.S. Needs A Long Term Geographical Relocation Effort<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal>Look, &#8216;Climate Change&#8217; is real and it is inevitable. It has little to do with our human activity; it is a global phenomena and it has been moving in the same direction for many centuries.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal>Therefore, <b>places where people and communities exist today &#8211; cannot exist there tomorrow<\/b> [within a generation]; it is simple fact, and we must begin planning for it. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal>People are going to necessarily need to move from &#8216;low lying&#8217; areas &#8211; from geographical &#8216;basins&#8217;&#8230; those who live on lands with natural topographical features that will flood from either heavy rains or rising seas&#8230;. must move to areas of higher ground &#8211; probably within a few decades.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><b>It must be done to avoid unbelievable, last minute, havoc <\/b>(of many kinds) &#8211;<b> mark my words<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal>I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217; &#8230; .<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Change Is Real &#8211; but there&#8217;s nothing Man can do about it &#8211; except plan for it. 1. We have hundreds of thousands &#8211; even millions &#8211; of people living in &#8216;low lying&#8217; and &#8216;basin&#8217; areas across the country &#8211; many as bad as New Orleans [no one should live there &#8211; anywhere &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/2019\/08\/21\/climate-change-is-real-but-theres-nothing-man-can-except-plan-for-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Climate Change Is Real but there&#8217;s nothing Man can EXCEPT PLAN for it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}