2009.10.14
Bringing home the global warming threat
Tuesday, Old Dominion University's Regional Studies Institute issued its 10th annual State of the Region report for Hampton Roads. We're working on an editorial to run later on one of the issues addressed, the impact of global warming and climate change on the coastal metropolitan area. While the study's authors acknowledge the continuing dispute over the causes of global warming, they leave little room for doubt that it is occurring and causing sea levels to rise, to potentially devastating effect. The report urges a regional reduction in carbon emissions and a statewide increase in fuel taxes, to curb vehicle emissions, and it recommends Hampton Roads start planning "a system of dikes and levees unless we intend to forfeit huge portions of our land to the sea." That's a warning state and national policymakers should heed.
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Comment by pammala — October 14, 2009 @ 3:46 pm
Well how much of sea levels risen the past 100 years due to warmer air temps?' Should be easy enough to see how much we need to construct dikes unless this is a total scam.
Comment by BUD — October 14, 2009 @ 3:59 pm
"The report urges a regional reduction in carbon emissions and a statewide increase in fuel taxes"
I want every Democrat to run on raising taxes over this nonsense.
Comment by Suzie — October 14, 2009 @ 4:49 pm
a balmy 38 degrees while reading this... global = everywhere??
Comment by Marked Man (mark) — October 14, 2009 @ 6:55 pm
around 900 AD northern Scotland imported wheat from Greenland, but for the past few hundred years it's been covered in glaciers. I wonder who caused the global warming back then?
Comment by NRJMike — October 14, 2009 @ 7:27 pm
I have lived or vacationed at the Virginia Beach ocean front for the past 50 years. The ocean level there has not changed during that time. If someone had placed a small stake at the high water mark there 50 years ago it would still be there marking the high tide point unchanged for all of those years.
Comment by waynep — October 14, 2009 @ 8:15 pm
How dare y'all question Al Gore and not fall for the global warming hype!
Comment by Patrick — October 14, 2009 @ 8:31 pm
I know Patrick... I feel so shamed for using his Internet to write this too... *bawls*
Comment by Marked Man (mark) — October 14, 2009 @ 9:14 pm
Since GW doesn't exist let the threat of it be "brough home". It will be like Jimmy Stewart bringing home his rabbit in Harvey.
Comment by Bob H — October 15, 2009 @ 7:59 am