Comments on: Humans accepting climate change vs. Jell-O: The Coastal Effect

By: 88% of Minnesota in Moderate Drought - Slush Risk Sunday Night? - PAUL DOUGLAS

88% of Minnesota in Moderate Drought - Slush Risk Sunday Night? - PAUL DOUGLAS — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 04:39:53 +0000

[…] than someone living near the coast in California, Florida or Virginia. Here’s an excerpt from scienceblogs.com: “…So, where does the bowl of Jell-O fit in to all of this? A recent study, in PLOS […]

By: Doug Alder

Doug Alder — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:02:54 +0000

Saw this today Greg – http://ecowatch.com/2014/07/22/national-conversation-climate-change-shifted/ – smasll glimmer of hope perhaps – then again http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/23/the-strange-relationship-between-global-warming-denial-and-speaking-english there’s always much of the English speaking MSM working hard to shut that conversation down

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 02:48:33 +0000

Bad, yes, good idea. In NZ they adjusted for some of those effects but there is just so much you can do there.

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 01:55:05 +0000

One obvious confounder is that one’s politics vary according to where one lives, with city dwellers being more liberal than rural folk, and cities tend to cluster on the coasts.

The upper midwest might be a good test of this as an interior region with many large cities: is the attitude in Chicago or Minneapolis/St. Paul significantly different from what it is in New York or Los Angeles?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 19:17:43 +0000

It would be tragic if the threshold was 250 feet.

By: Richard Chapman

Richard Chapman — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:22:58 +0000

Well said Greg. Thank you.

I have charted my distance and elevation from the Atlantic ocean using Google Earth. It’s pretty cool to mess around with various sea levels. It would take a 249 foot sea level rise to put a beach at my front doorstep.

I also calculated the effect of a 150 ft tsunami from a slab of mountain land slide from the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands slamming into the East Coast of the USA. It would come at me from two directions but there’s enough landmass and of sufficient elevation to keep me safe. That event is almost too catastrophic to think about. Most of Long Island would be wiped clean. There would be only about 6 hours warning.