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The Good News Is Jersey Shore Is Set To Be Cancelled, The Bad News Is . . .

. . . so is the entire actual Jersey shore. A Princeton study has found that global warming is causing a rise in sea levels that is far greater and more accelerated than previously thought. The report predicts that the Jersey shore could be underwater in a matter of decades and low-lying areas thrashed by increasing storm surges.

The study of Princeton-based research group Climate Central forecasts an increase of three to four feet in water levels and that the danger of massive killer storms will double by 2030. On their site, you can pick an area to look at the potential damage.

Even if half of this rise in sea levels is realized, it would produce widespread damage within our lifetime. It will be interesting to watch those people denying this environmental trend swim out of that problem.

As for that more painful reality, my greatest concern is that Jersey Shore will then combine with Waterworld in a terrifying mutation that will lead millions to throw themselves into the sea to make it stop.

Source: CBS

217 thoughts on “The Good News Is Jersey Shore Is Set To Be Cancelled, The Bad News Is . . .”

  1. Is this finally proof we’re NOT causing global warming? The whole of the Earth heated up in medieval times without human CO2 emissions, says new study

    Evidence was found in a rare mineral that records global temperatures
    Warming was global and NOT limited to Europe
    Throws doubt on orthodoxies around ‘global warming’

    Current theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times the whole of the planet heated up.

    It then cooled down naturally and there was even a ‘mini ice age’.

    A team of scientists led by geochemist Zunli Lu from Syracuse University in New York state, has found that contrary to the ‘consensus’, the ‘Medieval Warm Period’ approximately 500 to 1,000 years ago wasn’t just confined to Europe.

    In fact, it extended all the way down to Antarctica – which means that the Earth has already experience global warming without the aid of human CO2 emissions.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2120512/Global-warming-Earth-heated-medieval-times-human-CO2-emissions.html

  2. The bullet is about to enter the temple … of doom … suicidal psychopaths Church of Ecocide worshipers:

    The world is close to reaching tipping points that will make it irreversibly hotter, making this decade critical in efforts to contain global warming, scientists warned on Monday.

    Scientific estimates differ but the world’s temperature looks set to rise by six degrees Celsius by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions are allowed to rise uncontrollably.

    As emissions grow, scientists say the world is close to reaching thresholds beyond which the effects on the global climate will be irreversible, such as the melting of polar ice sheets and loss of rainforests.

    “This is the critical decade. If we don’t get the curves turned around this decade we will cross those lines,” said Will Steffen, executive director of the Australian National University’s climate change institute, speaking at a conference in London.

    (Scientific American).

  3. “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” – S. Colbert:

    The Facts About Global Warming

    So first off, let’s start with the facts about climate change — facts that you’d think (or you’d hope) any human being ought to accept.

    It turns out that the case for human-caused global warming is based on simple and fundamental physics. We’ve known about the greenhouse effect for over one hundred years. And we’ve known that carbon dioxide is a heat trapping gas, a greenhouse gas. Some of the key experiments on this, by the Irishman John Tyndall, actually occurred in the year 1859, which is the same year that Darwin published On the Origin of Species.

    We also know that if we do nothing, seriously bad stuff starts happening. If we melt Greenland and West Antarctica, we’re looking at 40 feet of sea level rise. This is, like, bye bye to key parts of Florida.

    Enter the Denial

    So then, the question is, why do people deny this? And why, might I add, do Republicans in particular deny this so strongly?

    And if your answer to that question is, “oh, because they’re stupid” — well, you’re wrong. That’s what liberals want to think, but it doesn’t seem be correct. In fact, it seems to be precisely the opposite — smarter (or more educated) Republicans turn out to be worse science deniers on this topic.

    This is a phenomenon that I like to call the “smart idiot” effect, and I just wrote about it for AlterNet and Salon.com.

    Let me tell you how I stumbled upon this effect — which is really what set the book in motion. I think the key moment came in the year 2008 when I came upon Pew data showing:

    * That if you’re a Republican, then the higher your level of education, the less likely you are to accept scientific reality — which is, that global warming is human caused.

    * If you’re a Democrat or Independent, precisely the opposite is the case.

    This is actually a consistent finding now across the social science literature on the resistance to climate change. So, for that matter, is the finding that the denial is the worst among conservative white males — so it has a gender aspect to it — and among the Tea Party.

    So seriously: What’s going on here? More education leading to worse denial, but only among Republicans? How can you explain that?

    (The Republican Brain).

  5. Bdaman,

    “I did”

    Then you should know enough to make your own case that the ocean’s pH isn’t dropping since you apparently don’t believe it is happening either.

    Make your own case.

  6. “In seawater the bicarbonate ion HCO3- is present as free ion for 63 – 81%, 11 – 20% is present as NaHCO3, 6 – 14% as MgHCO3 and 1.5 – 3% as CaHCO3. Of the carbonate ion CO32-, 6 – 8% is present as free ion, 3 – 16% as NaCO3-, 44 – 50% as MgCO3, 7% as Mg2CO32+, 21 – 38% as CaCO3 and 4% as MgCaCO32+ (Kester et al, 1975)”

    Gene H:

    would you please explain this?

  8. Bdaman,

    Again, you saying I don’t know what I’m talking about isn’t proving I don’t know what I’m talking about. There is ignorance showing here, but it is not mine. You can just add the process of ocean acidification to the long list of scientifically defined processes that you don’t understand.

    Just Google “ocean acidification”.

  9. This is seen in the acidification of the oceans among other things.

    Again Gene you don’t know what your talking about. Are you trying to say the ocean is turning into acid ?

  10. “When you try and make the science fit your political views it is very hard to determine the actual truth.”

    Funny you should mention that when quoting a source that has nothing to do with Venus. Methane is not the only greenhouse gas either. We were talking about CO2.

    “The amount of methane in the atmosphere is the result of a balance between production on the surface and destruction in the atmosphere. CH4 remains in the atmosphere for between 8 and 12 years. It’s removed by being oxidised in the troposphere, first to carbon monoxide (CO) and finally to CO2 and hydrogen gas (H2).”

    This is assuming that you are quoting the only other place I could find this quote, “Impacts of waste on the environment and its management in cities”, by Parin Shah is your source.

    “That is why science should not be funded by government.”

    Opinion and argument by non-sequitur.

    None of this changes that man made greenhouse gases like CO2 are pushing the limits to what the sublimation process can handle. This is seen in the acidification of the oceans among other things.

    That was a pathetic flail, Bron.

  11. “The amount of methane in the atmosphere is the result of a balance between production on the surface and destruction in the atmosphere. CH4 remains in the atmosphere for between 8 and 12 years. It’s removed by being oxidised in the troposphere, first to carbon monoxide (CO) and finally to CO2 and hydrogen gas (H2).”

    The hydrogen could have come from methane. It is a very prolific substance in the universe.

    When you try and make the science fit your political views it is very hard to determine the actual truth. That is why science should not be funded by government.

  12. Bron,

    Oh I’m sure you can get some denier nitwit to argue something contrary. However, if you’re going with someone who is going to argue against based on the lack of water vapor in the current Venusian atmosphere, Venus does receive enough sunlight to allow water vapor to rise high enough into the atmosphere to be split into H and O by UV radiation, thus allowing for H to be lost to atmospheric ablation by the solar winds and the O to recombine with denser elements in the atmosphere.

  13. Gene H:

    “There is no debate on how Venus got to be the way it is today.”

    Are you going to stand by that statement?

  14. 735 °K is the mean temperature on Venus and it is approximately 108,000,000 km from the sun.

    Because there is no atmosphere relatively speaking on Mercury, there is a temperature gradient on the day side running from 100 °K at the poles to 700 °K at the equator. Mercury is approximately 55,000,000 km from the sun.

    Care to explain why Venus, nearly twice as far from the sun as Mercury, has a mean temperature that is higher than the equatorial peak temperatures on Mercury, Bdaman?

    The answer has to do with how atmospheric carbon dioxide retains heat.

  15. People of the earth can you hear me came a voice from the sky on a magical night.

  17. I not only know that Venus is under pressure, I know how it got to be under pressure, Bdaman. You wouldn’t like the answer though. It has to do with chemistry.

  19. Your lack of comprehension does not translate into a debate, Bdaman.

    It’s merely your lack of comprehension.

  20. Really Gene, no more debate. Where have we heard that before ? It rhymes with just that, before.

    The science is settled, got that Bron.

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