Posted on Feb 11, 2021
Air Force wants to know if key Pacific airfield could disappear under rising sea
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I hate articles like this. They did a study on how sea-level rise might impact Wake Island. I've spent time on Wake so I was interested. Here's the conclusion: "The study said that further analysis was needed..." Great, thanks for spending taxpayer dollars to tell us that. The article makes no mention of the runway's MSL elevation (12 ft), or the average mean sea-level rise rate (11 inches per 100 years). We should start dumping sand and coral on it like China built up the Paracels. We'd only have to add a 3 foot retaining wall to give us a 300 year breather. Just do it instead of paying for another worthless study.
Air Force wants to know if key Pacific airfield could disappear under rising sea
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Why in the world are you trying to solve a problem when we can study the problem for years? Are you against job security? ROFL
We now live in SE Florida. I can walk to the canal 200 feet from the house and see where sea level is at anytime I want. We get King tides and yes, they will flood some of the streets in Miami and Ft Lauderdale. A good 2 or 3 inches deep. But, our average MSL is 6'. Yet we choose to live in a state that in 5,000 years might be under 200 feet of water if every scrap of ice melted.
We now live in SE Florida. I can walk to the canal 200 feet from the house and see where sea level is at anytime I want. We get King tides and yes, they will flood some of the streets in Miami and Ft Lauderdale. A good 2 or 3 inches deep. But, our average MSL is 6'. Yet we choose to live in a state that in 5,000 years might be under 200 feet of water if every scrap of ice melted.
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Man has been adapting to everything the world has thrown at him -- just a thought here, perhaps trying to change the climate is commensurate to denying that there is something greater than man.
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Col Joseph Lenertz
A humble man recognizes there are things greater than man. Fools and arrogant asses think mankind can control the universe.
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Well said as to *analyzing* ad nauseum vs. actually doing something. For years, another (environmental) sidebar = the EPA’s *Superfund* program, affectionately known as the *$uper $huffle.* When one adds up the amount of money spent on investigations/reports/litigation as opposed to what has been spent on *actual* remediation, it’s fuzzy math at best.
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