Is climate change a bad thing? Quite the contrary!
Due to warming, an uptick in CO2, and greater moisture in the atmosphere, plant life has boomed globally and the entire food chain has taken off. Gluts of grain crops globally, record salmon catches in Alaska, the Sahara Desert is in “spectacular retreat” (Univ of Copenhagen and Free Univ. of Amsterdam), and hurricanes are suppressed as the more turbulent atmosphere shears off the tops of nascent tropical storms before they develop into hurricanes. “Harvey” is the first hurricane to strike Texas since 2008.
As to rising waters, we have had continuous sea level rise at mm per decade since the end of the last major Ice Age due to thermal expansion. We are still climbing out of the last major Ice Age. The very definition of an Ice Age is when we have polar ice caps.
Maslowski hinted to Al Gore (D) in 2007 that the polar ice cap would be gone by 2013. Al Gore strutted across the stage to get his Nobel Prize and gravely warned us of Maslowski’s prediction, with all the resolute confidence that only a politician can muster. As to Delaware, yes, the Earth is warming — from within. Ergo, we have Expansion Tectonics at play. Not Plate Tectonics. See work by Ott Hilgenberg, Samuel Carey, James Maslow, and Dr. J. Marvin Herndon.
Fedor Baart and colleagues at the Univ of Delft, by examining satellite observations, have deduced that over the last 30 years, the of Area of the oceans has expanded. Yet the Area of the land has expanded even more. Almost every coastal region has expanded.
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“Coastal areas were also analysed, and to the scientists surprise, coastlines had gained more land – 33,700 sq km (13,000 sq miles) – than they had been lost to water (20,100 sq km or 7,800 sq miles).“We expected that the coast would start to retreat due to sea level rise, but the most surprising thing is that the coasts are growing all over the world,” said Dr Baart.
“We’re were able to create more land than sea level rise was taking.”
Delaware is doing just fine, so quit wasting taxpayer money.
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(Richard F. Cronin, Independent, Delaware)
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