Voters For President Shitstain In NYC Live In Areas That Rising Seas Will Flood First

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Look at a map of where New Yorkers supported Donald Trump and it looks a lot like the map of where Superstorm Sandy did its worst in 2012. From the east coast of Staten Island, to the Rockaways, to south Brooklyn, the communities most at risk from rising sea levels voted for Trump, a man who denies the very science behind rising sea levels.

As Nathan Kensinger points out in Curbed New York, the places where the city is now rebuilding against the next "Big One" are those where Trump posters hang proudly. "All of these Republican strongholds were devastated by Hurricane Sandy, and are now greatly benefiting from government assistance in their efforts to create new defenses against climate change," he writes.

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There's something brave about building once more above the expected flood-line, but also something too proud. "Beneath this defiant civic agenda is an old, blithe assumption that New York is too rich, too important, too tough, to ever give up an inch of real estate," says Andrew Rice in New York magazine. If the sea-level rise goes to 2.5 feet, as predicted for 2050, a quarter of New York City would be under water in the event of a 100-year storm.

Trump has called climate change a hoax made in China, nominated an oil executive as Secretary of State, okayed two controversial pipeline projects, and gagged the Environmental Protection Agency from talking to the press. Very likely, he'll cancel money for energy and climate research, and place funding for climate resiliency investments in peril.

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https://www.fastcoexist.com/3067639/climate-change-denying-new-yorkers-are-going-to-be-hit-hardest-by-rising-sea-levels

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1. This:

There's something brave about building once more above the expected flood-line, but also something too proud. "Beneath this defiant civic agenda is an old, blithe assumption that New York is too rich, too important, too tough, to ever give up an inch of real estate," says Andrew Rice in New York magazine. If the sea-level rise goes to 2.5 feet, as predicted for 2050, a quarter of New York City would be under water in the event of a 100-year storm.

Neither brave nor defiant. Simply stupid.

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3. 2.5 feet by 2050...Not going to happen

The sea level station at The Battery in New York shows a trend of 2.84 mm +/- .09 mm/yr. There is no indication that this trend is increasing. In order to get to 2.5 feet by 2050, it would have to be trending at 23.09 mm/yr starting this year.

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8518750

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2. Wasn't a big flood the way God wiped all the assholes off the earth last time?

Hmmm.

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4. Not as unexpected as you'd think

The people most likely to be affected are also the most likely to want to deny reality. We strive to escape emotional distress, so people will grasp at climate denying conspiracy theories rather than face up to losing their home or having to move out of their communities.