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When Kevin Harrison talks to Alabama lawmakers about the waters that scientists say will inundate the bridges, ports and highways he oversees, he never discusses climate change.
There have been naysayers about that particular topic, the transportation director of the South Alabama Regional Planning Commission said last week. He has better luck talking about more frequent hurricanes and floods, rather than what might be causing them. You really have to think about it in terms of extreme weather events, he said.
Harrisons burden shows the difficulty America faces in adapting for global warming, which last weeks National Climate Assessment said is being felt from Alaska to New York. According to the report, rising seas may devastate communities such as Mobile, a three-century-old port city in a state where Republicans dominate all branches of government.
Even as politicians and the official Alabama climatologist say global warming is a sham, theres no dispute that Mobiles fate is tied inextricably to the bay whose waters lap near streets with names like Dauphin and Conception, reminders of 18th-century French colonists. In coming decades, its port, which serves steel producer ThyssenKrupp AG (TKA) and Kleenex maker Kimberly-Clark Corp. (KMB), would be swamped by the rising Mobile Bay under as much as 25 feet of water, according to federal studies.
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The typical republican plan- deny there is a problem, then when disaster strikes ask others to bail them out, and steal as much of that as possible.
randys1
(16,286 posts)If they aren't killed directly by CC, which would be justice, then they need to be arrested, indicted and if convicted sent to prison for life for accomplices in murder.
Also, all republican politicians denying medicaid expansion need to be arrested TODAY and indicted and if convicted, life in prison.
these are NOT controversial positions for me to take, they are common sense