OT: sea level rise in Florida

Beer? Pickups? All I saw work young shapely females in bathing suits seated in some type of moving object. I guess I need to review. ;-) Mikek

Bill Sloman prodded the keyboard with:

The bridge was examined just after the floods last year and declared safe ! Now I wonder how they managed to look inside the stonework, there isn't any cement left in between the blocks that are visible.

I'm not sure that that style of stonework was ever supposed to rely on cement - or mortar.

If I understand it correctly - which isn't be be relied on - the blocks are supposed to fit closely, and be held in place by the weight of the road-bed - more carefully fitted blocks of stone.

You see what you want to see.

I'd prefer to have been with you. ;-)

Dry stone walling is a normal construction technique, especially oop t'north.

They could merge with Cuba.

It doesn't sound like a few mm of sea level rise is causing that.

In New Orleans, graves are above ground, because nobody wants to see their loved ones lowered into muddy water. It's been that way for hundreds of years.

About a block from our house in San Francisco, there are cracks in the middle of Conrad Street and water is seeping out and running downhill. I expect a sinkhole eventually. This is about 370 feet above sea level. I blame global warming.

We have a friend who lives on the slope of Bernal Heights, maybe +300 feet, who has a well in her back yard, with water just a couple of feet below the surface. I wish we had a well. I suspect here are underground streams, probably where native streams have been paved over, and I suspect that we don't have one.

Sloman will argue and insult endlessly, as long as it's not about electronic design.

Suicide is a viable option.

The New York Times is shockingly dishonest, inaccurate, and prejudiced (not to mention compulsive) about Climate Change. We need someone else to post the links that NYT won't.

On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 10:04:24 -0500, krw Gave us:

"Everything has a point, so I must have one too." --Oblio

"And you hear what you want to hear..."

In the pointless forest.

On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 16:51:14 +0000, Tom Gardner Gave us:

Everyone is faking it with veneers these days.

On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 10:38:29 -0800, John Larkin Gave us:

Muddy Waters... I know that guy!

:) But I expect they've always done that!

Certainly houses around here are two thin skins of stone/cement with rubble between them; if you are lucky you have a veneer of Bath stone.

I remember installing an early (i.e. thick) ethernet in a listed property in Cambridge in the mid 80s. We couldn't touch the woodwork, but could drill through the walls. The workmen complained but got the job done.

When it came time to move out the ethernet couldn't be removed because the rubble had settled slighty onto it. So we chopped it of and replastered over then ends. No doubt future archaeologists will scratch their heads.

And, according to the song, it is painless and brings on many changes. But I don't think they had climate change in mind.

No, it has been like that for the 21 years I've been in this house.

The highest point in the city is 1 mile away at 36.8 ft above sea level. There's a graveyard on it. Coincidence?

Mikek

People like tombs with a view.

The existence of 'I haven't seen...' persons has been made clear by flat-earth societies. That's not a real force in the world of ideas.

The issues at hand aren't about "blaming people" but about leaving our descendants a viable world! Two centuries from now, what difference does blame make? Arable land and dependable crops are threatened by sealevel rise, and that is an issue that DOES matter for centuries.

Plants love CO2, and moisture, so if we don't get another mini-ice age, food production will continue to increase.

Plant growth seems to be roughly proportional to atmospheric CO2 content.