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7/13/2014 1:10:25 PM
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Dearest America,
[url=http://news.sky.com/story/1299613/north-carolinas-outer-banks-ban-rising-seas]Why are your people so thick[/url]? We are disappointed in the way you have grown up. For shame.
Yours,
England.
[quote][/quote]But seriously, how can these people deny that sea levels are rising globally, and that sea level is almost guaranteed to increase by 0.5-1.2m by 2100? One look at the data published by the [url=http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/unfccc/cop19/3_gregory13sbsta.pdf]IPCC[/url] will give you clear evidence that global sea levels are on the rise, and will continue to do so. Thermal expansion and the laws of natural systems dictate that sea level must rise as the global temperature does.
One of the people interviewed says that she does not care for the information because the scientists "do not live [t]here", and so she writes off the report as useless to them. She claims that she might not know what is going on in Europe, but that she knows what's going on there from "the feel of it". I mean, how moronic do you have to be? [b]Global[/b] sea level rise means the sea level rises [i]across the globe[/i], not just in pockets.
Holy shit I'm mad.
Discuss.
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[quote][url=http://news.sky.com/story/1299613/north-carolinas-outer-banks-ban-rising-seas]Why are your people so thick[/url]? We are disappointed in the way you have grown up. For shame. Yours, England. [/quote] Anybody else read that part and expect this to be something along the lines of "Why are you all so fat"? With regard to the actual topic, I remember hearing about that and feeling ashamed to live on the same planet as those people. Unfortunately, we still have some citizens living with an early 20th century mindset of isolationism (if I remember my history correctly). They think that if it happens in other countries, it does not affect them here in Small Town USA™. These are the people who have never traveled outside their state, let alone the country, and live within 10 miles of the town where they grew up. For them, that's their world and anything outside of it is too far to think about. That can also allow the "out of sight, out of mind" method for dealing with bad news to occur. If you'll notice in that story, the people pushing for the legislation are realtors, property and business owners, and local politicians. These people have a much more biased stake in the outcome of the report than the scientists themselves (who they claim performed a biased study that did not use scientific principles). The Outer Banks lives off the income from tourists. If the area is suddenly deemed "unsafe", there goes the lifeblood of the area. Whether those people truly don't believe in accelerated climate change (I quite like that description, thanks you guys) or not is irrelevant in my opinion. This whole issue is a marketing and PR ploy to attempt to safeguard the area's main source of income. They're scared, and unfortunately they chose to stick their collective head in the sand. I would also like to point out the apparent age of the people interviewed. They are not of a younger generation. In my experience, those of us in the up and coming generation are a lot more accepting and open minded, but I also live in a different area so that may have something to do with it.
