The Alaskan village set to disappear under water in a decade
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UPDATED: Tuesday, June 20, 2023 05:38
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Not really sure how that happened.
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The world is warning, seas are rising but maybe not at the rate the Doomsday types predicted
Ten years Later...they say another 10 Years!
Sea Level Rise Will Impact Cities
https://menafn.com/1106441053/Sea-Level-Rise-Will-Impact-Cities
Currently, the village of Kivalina Alaska is threatened by rising waters, and it is projected to disappear within ten years
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On display: the hysterical delusions of a TRUE BELIEVER from the Religion of Global Climate Warming Change. She is incapable of processing new input, any data which conflicts with her predetermined conclusions.
Folks, you really cannot make this stuff up.
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Almost no one in America has heard of the Alaskan village of Kivalina. It clings to a narrow spit of sand on the edge of the Bering Sea, far too small to feature on maps of Alaska, never mind the United States.
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Which is perhaps just as well, because within a decade Kivalina is likely to be under water. Gone, forever. Remembered - if at all - as the birthplace of America's first climate change refugees.
Four hundred indigenous Inuit people currently live in Kivalina's collection of single-storey cabins. Their livelihoods depend on hunting and fishing.
The sea has sustained them for countless generations but in the last two decades the dramatic retreat of the Arctic ice has left them desperately vulnerable to coastal erosion. No longer does thick ice protect their shoreline from the destructive power of autumn and winter storms. Kivalina's spit of sand has been dramatically narrowed.
The US Army Corps of Engineers built a defensive wall along the beach in 2008, but it was never more than a stop-gap measure.
A ferocious storm two years ago forced residents into an emergency evacuation. Now the engineers predict Kivalina will be uninhabitable by 2025.
Kivalina's story is not unique. Temperature records show the Arctic region of Alaska is warming twice as fast as the rest of the United States.
Retreating ice, slowly rising sea levels and increased coastal erosion have left three Inuit settlements facing imminent destruction, and at least eight more at serious risk.
The problem comes with a significant price tag. The US Government believes it could cost up to $400m (£265m) to relocate Kivalina's inhabitants to higher ground - building a road, houses, and a school does not come cheap in such an inaccessible place. And there is no sign the money will be forthcoming from public funds.
Kivalina council leader, Colleen Swan, says Alaska's indigenous tribes are paying the price for a problem they did nothing to create.
North of Kivalina there are no roads, just the vast expanse of Alaska's Arctic tundra. And at the most northerly tip of US territory lies the town of Barrow - much closer to the North Pole than to Washington DC. America's very own climate change frontline.
Barrow's residents are predominantly from the Inupiat tribe - they hunt bowhead whale and seal. But this year has been fraught with problems.
The sea ice started to melt and break up as early as March. Then it refroze, but it was so thin and unstable the whale and seal hunters were unable to pull their boats across it. Their hunting season was ruined.
For the first time in decades not a single bowhead whale was caught from Barrow. One of the town's most experienced whaling captains, Herman Ahsoak, says the ice used to be 3m (9ft) thick in winter, now it is little more than a metre.
Barrow is known as the Arctic's "science city". In summer it hosts dozens of international researchers monitoring the shrinking of the Arctic ice and - no less important - the rapid thawing of the tundra's permafrost layer.
But it is the anecdotes that are as striking as the columns of data. I join a team of scientists taking samples of the ice off Barrow Point.
We motor across the offshore ice on all terrain vehicles, but we are not alone. "You'll be escorted by armed bear guards," my local guide, Brower Frantz, says before we set out.
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Quote:Obviously, this disaster was caused by too many cows farting 10,000 years ago. AND all of those automobiles and Industrial Machines used more than 9,000 years ago.
Originally posted by Geezer:Quote:Not really.
Originally posted by Niki2:
Which is perhaps just as well, because within a decade Kivalina is likely to be under water. Gone, forever. Remembered - if at all - as the birthplace of America's first climate change refugees.
10,000 years or so ago, people lived along the banks of Lake Toiyabe and Lake Tonopah in central Nevada. They left carvings at what is now the Hickison Petroglyph Recreation Area. The climate changed, the lakes dried up, and they left. I've been there. It's a beautiful, eerie, place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickison_Petroglyph_Recreation_Area
"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."
All delusional Looney Lefty Libtards KNOW this is true, you cannot refute their facts.
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And you're also getting defensive for some reason
(Note: I quoted that and posted this before you revised your post)
Byte, you're missing the fact that any and all references to problems which will occur because of global warming immediately gets under Rap's skin and he's forced to diss anyone who might suffer, deny any problems that might be caused, and keep repeating that there IS no global warming caused by man. It's as big an obsession with him as "Islamist extremists", surely you've noticed that by now. Has he ever, even once, let any news about global warming pass or refrained from IMMEDIATELY posting some kind of snark...ever? Not to my knowledge. He is the only person here who is absolutely, positively guaranteed to react that way to any and every post which might even mention global warming.
So any effort to simply clarify, much less discuss, something like this goes "in one ear and out the other"--he will REACT, always negatively, no matter what you try to say or how you try to explain. Always has and always will. He cannot and will not ever express empathy or sympathy for anyone who suffers in any way from the effects of global warming; it is, I believe, actually impossible for him to do so. Hope that helps you understand.
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Quote:Lies, lies, all lies.
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
The world is warning, seas are rising but maybe not at the rate the Doomsday types predicted
Ten years Later...they say another 10 Years!
Sea Level Rise Will Impact Cities
https://menafn.com/1106441053/Sea-Level-Rise-Will-Impact-Cities
Currently, the village of Kivalina Alaska is threatened by rising waters, and it is projected to disappear within ten years
Truth, Facts, and Science cannot alter the cerebral sequences of Libtard TRUE BELIEVER Tree Huggers. You cannot dispute their Gods.
When will sensible folk stop trying to explain reason, sanity, rationality to the delusional Libtards?
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Great necropost from Jaynez.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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