Are you TRULY that dense? I can give you almost ENDLESS real reasons. Let's start: - If the oceans don't rise Miami won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Jacksonville won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Savannah won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Charleston won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Myrtle Beach won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Wilmington won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Norfolk won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Washington DC won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Philadelphia won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Manhattan won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Boston won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Providence won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Tampa won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Pensacola won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Mobile won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Biloxi won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise New Orleans won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Lake Charles won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Houston won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Galveston won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Corpus Christi won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Brownsville won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise San Diego won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Los Angeles won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise San Francisco won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Portland won't go underwater - If the oceans don't rise Seattle won't go underwater and on and on and on THREE reasons? How about 150 million reasons, because half of our population lies along our coasts.
@Rex none of that is happening in our lifetime and IMO never will. As I've said before I do think that we are adding CO2 and greenhouse gasses in enough volume to impact weather. We need to better understand the consequences BUT there is time even in the worst case scenario. More importantly mankind's natural inventiveness is already addressing the issue. The US produces LESS CO2 than 20 years ago and the rest of the world is following suit. Why because there are better more efficient ways to produce power. Free markets are leading the way. Our cost of energy keeps going down. Germany which is using government rules to force a "green" power infrastructure is bankrupting itself. Our free market solutions encourage inventions and investment in processes that work better. Trump's coal pledge is largely meaningless because coal no longer is the cheap power producer. The only part of our withdrawal that bothers me is the further abdication of leadership. We are the world's superpower and the rest of it looks to us for leadership. Frankly we've had a bad 16 years that has damaged our position. W squandered it, Obama ran from it and now Trump is throwing it away. If I believed him that he would renegotiate I would feel better but he's shown no talent for leadership or the ability to think strategical. We'll survive and climate consequences but I fear for the diplomatic and international damage he's doing by the way he's acting.
30 - 40 years ago, Rex would have been on the "the next ice age is coming" bandwagon. Nitwit "progressives" change their platform more often than Paris changes her panties. Oops...the world isn't exactly "cooling", so let's push global warming for a while. Most progressives probably wear panties also. Give it up rex...no rational person still believes in man-made climate change. Gore is the butt of a thousand jokes.
