🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:02:11 GMT, usenet@only.tnx (Questor) wrote:

>On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 15:04:22 -0400, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 2018-07-17, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 9:01:06 AM UTC-6, JimP wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 00:57:11 -0400, J. Clarke
>>>>> <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I hate to break it to you, but you don't have anything Russia wants
>>>>>> either.
>>>> 
>>>>> Ice free ports ?
>>>> 
>>>> Iran has those. Canada is in a similar climactic situation to Russia,
>>>> and even if we do have some year-round ice-free ports, for obvious
>>>> reasons Cuba would be just as good for them.
>>> 
>>> s/climactic/climatic/
>>> 
>>> We Canadians are too laid back to be in a continuous state of climax.
>>> 
>>>> Still, although there is no direct *land* connection to the Rodina, Canada is 
>>>> big enough that I guess Russia could put their factories and infrastructure 
>>>> within it, so that they could project their naval power _from_ Canada rather 
>>>> than from Russia when its ports are frozen in.
>>> 
>>> If global warming continues, the Northwest Passage will be open year round.
>>
>>It's getting close, shippers are salivating at the thought of a shortcut
>>route from the US east coast to Asia. This is one of the benefits of global
>>warming that never gets mentioned, since everyone knows that global warming
>>is a "bad thing."
>
>It's certainly a bad thing for wildlife like polar bears which are dependent on
>a colder climate for habitat and food sources.  It is making it more difficult
>to build structures in Northern regions because the permafrost is deeper and
>so it requires bigger and deeper foundations, while existing buildings are at
>risk of collapsing.  In the Western United States, wildfire "season" is becoming
>a year-round phenomena, and the shorter, warmer winters no longer have the same
>retardant effect on insect populations -- pine borer beetle infestations are
>threatening forests in Colorado and elsewhere.  Western states that rely on
>winter snow pack as a natural reservoir for their water supplies are facing
>increasing difficulties as more winter rain and less snow diminishes that
>resource. Coastal cities like Norfolk, Virginia and Miami, Florida now
>experience severe street flooding nearly every time it rains.  As global warming
>continues, formerly temperate regions will become increasingly arid, and
>hundreds of millions of people who live in coastal communities will be driven
>out by sea level rise.  Some island nations will become completely submerged.
>
>But hey, Walmart can ship its cheap goods from China directly to the East Coast
>more easily, so that makes up for it, right?

Norfolk, VA downtown is below the level of the James River. I was
shown that water in downtown has to be pumped up into that river, back
in 1970.