Climate Problems

Climate Problems

World problems:

Glaciers are melting, also Perma-frost Arctic areas have leaning trees that no longer

Can survive in the softening earth.

Mountains: cold areas are getting warmer. Ice is more fragile

Flooding in the mountain valleys.  A new thing in the Swiss Alps.

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“People Created” problems

Ocean  Jetties  built out into the ocean in order to keep drifters out of expensive Hotels privatized beaches turned out to be more dangerous than helpful.. In  1982 I was in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico, near the Pacific Ocean.

A few yearrs before I arrived, boulder jetties were run our into the ocean. The money men

Decided that the beach near Tapachula was the perfect place to build a cove for the Tourist trade.Restaurants would be basic palm covered roofs and plank tables and benches.

A very modern Rest Room was created and everything was good to go. People could take a cruise down the Pacific from San Diego, California, and visit different coves along the way. Tourist items be made available,  

The beaches in the area were pristine and very wide. Epensive hxmes were built along a brand new tarmac road with modern lights for night driving. And a sand digging machine was purchased for any extra said brought by storms or normal wave action.

The exception was NOT ONE person knew what the wave action would do. The young lady of 20 years or so took us on a short tour of the area. She said the beach had been her playgroundl when she was younger.  Part of her tour included the remains of her old home on the Beach. It was a red brick corner of what she told us once was the family house. THe house had easy access to the new road except the beach seemed to be getting shorter and shorter. After a good storm, the whole family was looking forward to spending the summer at the house by the road.

When they arrived. They were shocked. There was no house and the road had deep gouges in it. The lamplights were rusted and bent. The cove restaurants were covered with sand and the new sanitary  facilities were scattered all over the sand. The red brick building no longer existed. The family home no longer existed. Needless to say, the beach no longer existed either.

Where the new road had been compromised, they had brought in more boulders to stop the sea from eating any more of the tarmacadam asphalt out of the roadway. The sea asked no questions, did not warn anyone of impending danger. It just did its normal routine.  

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When I read that Miami, Florida, where I had lived for 17 years, had its main downtown street (Flagler) flooded one year because of a hurricane. I was appalled. The next year or so, the two neighbor hotels on Miami Beach got flooded. The Eden Roc and the Fountainbleau Hotels had been side by side but to privatize the beaches like the other hotels on the ocean side, all hotels along the way had put out jetties so the riff-raff, regular swimmers and beachgoers would not interfere with their  beach front valet services.

Miami had begun a flurry of condominiums along Bayfront Park as far west as Viscaya, the mansion on the waterfront, where they used to have art and selling art weekends every year. I had sold a set of blue sketched statues of the garden there one year. A great time in Miami.

This past summer, I read about the area of the condos and found that it had also had flooding problems. Outdoor cafes had to build seawalls around their restaurants because the land had sunk below the street levels. Drinking water was more difficult to find. Waste water pipes were constantly breaking or leaking because the water level kept rising. It was getting higher every year.  Both drinking water and sanitation began to be a huge problem.

The whoie state is having the very same problem as Miami and Miami Beach, Florida.

Sinkholes in the state were multiplying. Over 15000 in the north area along.  People were offfered insuramce $3.000 per year, after a geologish assured people their house was safe from sinkhole damage. A man died the night after he was told his house was safe. The sinkhole took his whole bedroom and left the house itself intact.  The insurance companies found that they were paying $192,000 for houses that fell into the sinkholes. And naturally, most insurance companies went broke very quickly.

Disney lost a hotel at CLerburne. The guests were able to crawl out the windows on the top floor to get out, before it sunk into the sea underneath.  Prices at Disney were jacked to make up the difference in their holdings in the stock markets.

Why were such things occurring in FLorida and ocean fronts?  The sea water which was killing the coral beds had acidified to where the water had begun to erode the coral rock that held up the whole of the peninsula of Florida.  The coral rock base began to melt in tiny sections until it crumbled in bigger areas.

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Flooding on the rivers.

Did anyone ever read Mark Twain? His years on the Mississipi River will be an eye opener.  The Civil Engineers with all of their schooling could not, even to this day, control the river. Islands that were on the west coast of the river, suddenly became part of the land on the east coast of the river and in a completely different state.

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn’s adventures tell of people who thought they could survive the river, but ended up sitting in their front windows watching the shoreline go by. Eventually the river tore the house-----they thought would be safe-----into matchsticks.

Modern hurricane Katrina did even more damage to Ward Nine in New Orleans. The levees were built higher for the next hurrican, but no one knows how the river will twist or turn when it reaches the new levees, or how long they will last against the river.

Air:  Making Chemical Rain Clouds

Acidifies the oceans; kills coral reefs

Flora:  GMO yields vs Sustainable Crops

GMO seeds have no replanting capabilities.

When we have no more seeds that will produce

Food, there will be a great famine in the land.

A farmer who has to produce a big crop, but who cannot

plant a home garden for his family has to pay for food like

everyone else. The same farmer not only has to produce a

Large crop, but also has to purchase more GMO seed to replant

another, plus special concoctions that will kill newer bugs and slugs.

This has led to over 2,000 suicides in India alone. Sustainable Crops

Allow the farmers to not only grow crops that produce more seed, but also

Allow the farmers to feed their family and make some money from the home

Gardens for essentials, like tools, clothing, and sending his children to schools.  

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Fauna: Animals:

Not allowing animals to live in protected areas, like National Parks.

Special areas that cater to homing such animals.

Killing Polar Bears and other arctic animals from the Air

Not for food. . . . just to kill and leave the carcasses on the ground.

Minks, Otters, Seals, etc.  for furs, not for food consumption.

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