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On Sat, 30 Mar 2024 17:31:30 -0400, moviePig <never@nothere.com>
wrote:

>On 3/30/2024 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.
>
>"Between 1901 and 2018, average global sea level rose by 15–25 cm (6–10 
>in), an average of 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) per year. This rate 
>accelerated to 4.62 mm (0.182 in)/yr for the decade 2013–2022. Climate 
>change due to human activities is the main cause."
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise

Wikipedia....
Laugh.