Quote:Rajvik wrote:You're gonna honestly tell me that NPR makes a habit of bad reporting? Cite please.
Its an NPR story, I take it with a splash of salt, a lick of lime and a shot of tequila.
Also, more on topic... Okay, I can see that if it was just a sudden thing. 100-year and 500-year floods happen. But this is permanent... or at least as close enough to 'permanent' for government work. You know what, let's just say 'indefinite' so we're all PC here.
So, that water is gonna flood the town... in about two years. And it's not gonna recede. At least, not anytime soon. And the ACoE says this is a definite thing that's gonna happen - and these guys have many decades of dealing with these things.
So, where's your concrete proof that this has nothing to do with climate change? Because seasonal ice-melts do not permanently change maps like that, let alone so quickly. Really, for that to happen there has to be something else involved... like a soft bed of water soluble minerals that was heretofore unknown.
And yes, permafrost thaw happens. But that's NOT A GOOD THING. You think we release a lot of carbon now? If the permafrost in Alaska thaws, it will release four times as much carbon as the entire human race currently produces.
I get what you're saying. Shit happens. Deal with it.
Now, get what I'm saying: we've evolved in a ridiculously short amount of time on this planet. And while part of our evolution deals in the curveballs that our world's climate shifts would throw at us, this was at a time where migration would be an easy enough thing. But that was then, this is now. We've settled just about every corner of this planet and everyone has got a political stake somewhere. If entire tracts of land suddenly become uninhabitable, it is going to hurt so bad that, in the right conditions, a war could possibly start over it. I know that's a little hysterical, but look at what Russia is doing right now in Crimea.
It behooves us to mitigate climate change as much as possible, or else the costs of dealing with it are going to far outweigh the costs of mitigation.