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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:09:20 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Baltimore Bridge Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: <54ecndjJKpe_QZn7nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com> <66n90j98fa5ciafo546pd0t1fk7iasml2r@4ax.com> <uu2nbv$3b5vs$1@dont-email.me> <uu4adb$3mth9$2@dont-email.me> <atropos-F8737E.11425728032024@news.giganews.com> <uu6im7$b577$8@dont-email.me> <atropos-0FE527.10455929032024@news.giganews.com> <uu9csk$1363u$1@dont-email.me> <atropos-1BE492.12585230032024@69.muaa.rchm.washdctt.dsl.att.net> <uubnka$1q8ej$1@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky <gmsingh@email.com> In-Reply-To: <uubnka$1q8ej$1@dont-email.me> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 125 Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com|netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 17:09:20 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 6184 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c1e87dd71c8823$156269$3716115$2d54864@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 6621 On 3/31/24 8:14 AM, FPP wrote: > On 3/30/24 3:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >> In article <uu9csk$1363u$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On 3/29/24 1:45 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>> In article <uu6im7$b577$8@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 3/28/24 2:42 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>> In article <uu4adb$3mth9$2@dont-email.me>, >>>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>> On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 02:55:30 +0000, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> >>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Just saw on the news that Joe Biden has pledged that the >>>>>>>>>> government >>>>>>>>>> will "pay the entire cost" of rebuilding the Baltimore bridge. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Huh? Shouldn't the shipping company and its insurance agency >>>>>>>>>> foot the >>>>>>>>>> bill? It's like he just can't wait for any opportunity to fuck >>>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>>> taxpayer. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> And when it's rebuilt, obviously it can't be renamed the >>>>>>>>>> Francis Scott >>>>>>>>>> Key Bridge. I mean, "old straight racist white guy", amirite? >>>>>>>>>> So what >>>>>>>>>> will its new name be? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I submit the "Saint George Floyd of Fentanyl Memorial Bridge". >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The federal government can act to get repairs started today >>>>>>>>> while the >>>>>>>>> lawyers act to collect any money due from the company/insurance. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The bridge won't be repaired. It'll be 5 to 7 years at least. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Here's an article from the Baltimore Sun. Turn off javascript to >>>>>>> read. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/03/27/how-long-to-rebuild-key-bridge/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Ignore "rebuild" in the headline. No one is saying it can be >>>>>>> rebuilt. >>>>>>> It's going to be replaced with something brand new. I'm sure the >>>>>>> piers will both be relocated closer to shore. >>>>>> >>>>>> And higher, too. I drove across the Key Bridge regularly when I >>>>>> was a DC >>>>>> denizen and it was kinda scary how high up you got with seemingly >>>>>> very >>>>>> little to stop you from going over the side if you lost control. >>>>>> >>>>>>> The replacement will have to take into account larger vessels and >>>>>>> sea >>>>>>> level rise >>>>>> >>>>>> Which is non-existent pretty much everywhere. There's been no sea >>>>>> level >>>>>> rise over the last 12 years at the beach down the street from me; >>>>>> when I >>>>>> visited Miami's South Beach two years ago, the ocean was in the same >>>>>> place it was in the pictures of my visit 20 years earlier (despite >>>>>> AlGore's insistence that Miami would be underwater by 2011); Plymouth >>>>>> Rock isn't underwater; the water level around the base of the >>>>>> Statue of >>>>>> Liberty hasn't changed since it was erected, etc., etc. >>>>> >>>>> This has been explained to you for decades. Decades... >>>> >>>> Liar. >> >>> Over and over and over and you still repeat the same old bullshit as >>> everything around us goes to shit. >> >> Given that the enviro-kooks have been predicting sea level rise since >> the late 90s, even famously direly warning that Miami would be >> underwater by 2011, one would think that there would be *some* evidence >> of a, ya know, sea level rise. >> > > Well, genius, NOAA (you know, REAL experts) say you're full of shit. It looks like we've got NOAA vs. don't-know-a. > >> Global sea level has been rising over the past century, and the rate >> has increased in recent decades. In 2014, global sea level was 2.6 >> inches 67 mm above the 1993 average—the highest annual average in the >> satellite record (1993-present). Sea level continues to rise at a rate >> of about one-eighth of an inch 3.2 mm per year. >> >> Higher sea levels mean that deadly and destructive storm surges push >> farther inland than they once did, which also means more frequent >> nuisance flooding. Disruptive and expensive, nuisance flooding is >> estimated to be from 300 percent to 900 percent more frequent within >> U.S. coastal communities than it was just 50 years ago. >> >> The two major causes of global sea level rise are thermal expansion >> caused by warming of the ocean (since water expands as it warms) and >> increased melting of land-based ice, such as glaciers and ice sheets. >> The ocean is absorbing more than 90 percent of the increased >> atmospheric heat associated with emissions from human activity. > > And THEY don't play at knowing what they're talking about like you do. > You've been told this for decades. > >> With continued ocean and atmospheric warming, sea levels will likely >> rise for many centuries at rates higher than that of the current >> century. In the United States, almost 40 percent of the population >> lives in relatively high-population-density coastal areas, where sea >> level plays a role in flooding, shoreline erosion, and hazards from >> storms. Globally, eight of the world's 10 largest cities are near a >> coast, according to the U.N. Atlas of the Oceans. > > And you've been told this for decades. >