If Ronny Paul is so against FEMA funds... You'd think he'd refuse them, but nooooooooooooo Texas leads the nation in 2011 with 84 Declared Disasters that sucked down Taxpayer FEMA dollars.
As a Texas Congressman, Paul should be fighting FEMA dollars at home... but instead he's fighting against FEMA dollars for New York, Vermont, North Carolina, New Jersey... as Paul bows and takes the FEMA dollars for his home state Texas. Hypocrite!
Sorry Box but Paul voted against FEMA aid, the money that does make it's way into Texas is at the request of the governor through funding already passed by the majority of congress. FEMA and the Whitehouse has full control over who gets aid not congress.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
Humans did not invent climate change. Earth's climate has been changing throughout our planet's history. Cool periods, including ice ages, have created vast continental ice sheets at times, dramatically lowering sea levels worldwide. Warmer spells melted those ice sheets (and at times, the entire polar caps), raising sea levels and flooding what are now coastal land areas. Such events have happened many times, even in the fairly recent few million years of Earth's 4.6 billion year long "lifetime". A thorough account of these events is beyond the scope of this course. We will, however, take a quick look at a few of the more recent freeze/thaw cycles and their effects on sea levels, to help provide us with perspective on modern times and our current episode of climate change.
Let's quickly review some terminology related to "ice ages" and look at some of the most recent ones. Scientists and the general public actually use the term "ice age" in a slightly different way, though both use it to refer to an especially cold period in Earth's history when ice sheets covered much of the land for long periods. From the stricter scientific perspective, an "ice age" is a period in Earth's history when temperatures were cool enough to form ice caps at the poles. This implies, of course, that during part's of our planet's history the poles have been ice free; and such is indeed the case. By this definition, we are currently in an ice age; one that began about 40 million years ago (mya) and intensified around 3 mya. Scientists recognize, however, that there are warmer and cooler "spells" during an ice age. They call the cold spells "glacials" and the warmer periods in between "interglacials". Colloquial use of the term "ice age" corresponds to the scientific term "glacial".
We are now in the midst of an interglacial, called the Holocene, that began somewhere between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago. The last glacial (or colloquially, "ice age") that ended roughly 10 millennia ago is referred to as the Wisconsin glacial in North America (it goes by different names in Europe!). The Wisconsin glacial began around 110,000 years ago, while the prior interglacial lasted about 20,000 years starting 130,000 years ago. Certain periodic changes in Earth's orbital motions, referred to as a group as Milankovitch Cycles, tend to usher glacial and interglacial periods in and out during the course of an ice age. These cycles have periods of 40,000 and 100,000 years. Scientists believe, based on the Milankovitch Cycles, that the current interglacial is likely to end roughly 50,000 years from now, barring excessive human disruption of natural patterns of climate change.
During the peak of the Wisconsin glacial glaciers covered almost a third of Earth's land surface, as compared to about 11% today. At the time of the last glacial maximum, about 20,000 years ago, sea levels were about 122 meters (400 feet) lower than they are today. As global temperatures began to rise and the ice began to recede, sea levels rose relatively rapidly at an average rate of about 10 mm/year (a meter per century) between 15,000 and 6,000 years ago. This rate of sea level rise is about 5 to 10 times as rapid as the rise we are currently experiencing. A vertical rise of sea level by a meter per century may not seem an especially radical change. However, recall that coastal plains and continental shelves have shallow slopes; so a vertical rise of one meter corresponds to a change in location of the coastline of roughly a kilometer in many places.
Before the Wisconsin glacial, during the preceding interglacial, a warmer climate melted much of the ice from the preceding glacial. Around 125,000 years ago sea levels were about 5.5 meters (18 feet) higher than they are today.
As was mentioned earlier, the current ice age (in the stricter scientific sense of the term) began about 40 million years ago and intensified three million years ago. Before the beginning of this more intense period, scientists believe that sea levels may have been as much as 50.3 meters (165 feet) higher than today during interglacial spells. http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/climate/sea_level_rise.html
How about "storm sewers" and "drainage districts" and "storm culverts." Tell me, which genius will understand how and why the river gets fuller faster than it did 50 years ago. How are all the stringent "stormwater pollution" and rapid stormwater management techniques and measures working out for everyone these days?
Take a look at your "environmental engineers" and "civil engineers" and if you want to understand why we get the raindrop that fell 20 miles from the river into the river as soon as possible, rather than having it percolate into the ground water table gradually then look at the rabid insane environmentalist sitting to your left that believes that "stormwater pollution" discharges are the biggest problem since a nuclear meltdown.
Less rain WILL equal more flooding in the rivers because we rapidly funnel the rain into the streams and rivers almost immediately. This same storm, 20 years from now, may result in much greater crests. And THAT is not something the priests and witches of government will admit to you anytime soon.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
How about "storm sewers" and "drainage districts" and "storm culverts." Tell me, which genius will understand how and why the river gets fuller faster than it did 50 years ago. How are all the stringent "stormwater pollution" and rapid stormwater management techniques and measures working out for everyone these days?
Take a look at your "environmental engineers" and "civil engineers" and if you want to understand why we get the raindrop that fell 20 miles from the river into the river as soon as possible, rather than having it percolate into the ground water table gradually then look at the rabid insane environmentalist sitting to your left that believes that "stormwater pollution" discharges are the biggest problem since a nuclear meltdown.
Less rain WILL equal more flooding in the rivers because we rapidly funnel the rain into the streams and rivers almost immediately. This same storm, 20 years from now, may result in much greater crests. And THAT is not something the priests and witches of government will admit to you anytime soon.
CHA-CHING? not to mention the diversion of water from farmland to vegas......hey,,,we reap what we sow, I guess the gambling is our reaping
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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