Here is another AP story, "Global Warming may require higher dams, stilts":
Global warming may require higher dams, stilts - Yahoo! News
I like how the story says that "Climate Change is happening rapidly", even when the IPCC has to admit that the climate has actually cooled since 1998. And, if the hacked emails from the CRU are correct, there has been
no warming since 1960. So, how does the AP get away with publishing such nonsense in the mainstream news? Because, by definition, even cooling is considered "climate change", even if it isn't, or isn't related to global warming.
But as Copenhagen starts next Sunday, you can be sure that more "Climate Change" stories will be posted, even if the nature of the change is ambiguous or illogical.
The list of measures being taken in the story is laughable. Sacramento says it will be spending money to protect rivers "when the sea level rises". Left unmentioned is that Sacramento is 25 feet above sea level, and even Al Gore in his worst scenarios did not predict sea level increases of that magnitude.
The permafrost below the Alaskan oil pipeline is melting, but it is melting because the oil in the pipeline has been heated significantly so it will flow in the cold weather. The measures they are using to freeze the permafrost are to use "thermal siphons" to allow the cold air farther away from the pipeline to transmit cold into the ground. If global warming were indeed the cause of the permafrost melt, then this thermal siphon system wouldn't work, would it? How stupid do they think we are?
Global Warming induced sea level rise is also being cited as a danger to places like Singapore and Bangladesh, rather than other causes, such as increased population and erosion. Have you ever wondered why the rivers in these areas are brown? Its because of the rain water washing the soil into the sea. The amount of eroded soil carried away by a major river in a single hour is astounding. The Appalachian mountains in America used to me much taller than they are now. They are not shorter now because the seas have risen, but because eons of weather and erosion have worn them away. The same thing occurs near the coasts, and even faster in agricultural areas where rain and irrigation work together to cause erosion. The city of New Orleans has actually been "sinking" over the years, and is now below sea level when there has been no measurable increase in sea level, the same has happened in other cities built on river deltas. But, once again, we are assumed to be too stupid to know this.
I hope those of you who are living in Dallas are enjoying the snow, I know it's very unusual to have snow there in December. Do you think this year's snowfall is somehow caused global warming? You will if you are a reporter for the AP.