Here’s a scary newspaper headline: “Could global warming turn R.I. into the under-Ocean State?” The answer to that question could only be, “Yes.” And so it was in a one-sided report in a Rhode Island newspaper.
A news article in the March 22 Providence (R.I.) Journal by G. Wayne Miller details how a portion of the beautiful harbor town of Newport will be underwater due to the effects of anthropogenic global warming by the year 2100.
“The ocean covers the place where once-popular Perrotti Park used to be. The park benches that stood on dry land are gone. So are the water fountain and coin-operated binoculars through which visitors once observed the harbor,” Miller wrote. “Adjacent to the park site, America’s Cup Avenue is history, too, along with the harbormaster’s building and the salon, restaurant and stores that did business on nearby Long Wharf. It is 8:16 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2100.”
I think this is just wishful thinking.
Glenn,
But Gore’s got us investing in Tulip, er… Carbon Futures.
Can you show us any place where carbon futures are required? So far, they seem to be a dud in the market.
Oh No There goes Tokyo, Godzilla!
The good news is by 2100 I will have very valuable beach front property in Rhode Island. The bad news, I doubt Ill live to 2100. So screw it all. The globe warms, the globe cools, it’s not man-made, what hubris we mortals think that we cause all these things. The country is cleaner now than it was in the 1960′s as far as pollution goes. Most of these nut jobs just want our money and control over us so they can be big men. Get some viagra dude!
# 15 Misanthropic Scott said, “Florida and Louisiana are blue? News to me. ”
LA no. Florida, yes. Did you know that there was an election in Nov 2008?
So we’re caring about Rhode Island now?
#23 – Paddy-O,
Yes. Does one election of one candidate out of many change the entire color of a state? If so, the entire nation just turned blue.