And still more lies and hysteria
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“Climate resilience” has become a phrase that describes the efforts of scientists, conservationists and government officials to respond to sea-level rise, intense storms and increasing temperatures.
The concept is getting the attention of military planners as well, and in Maine, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery is hardening its historic facilities against higher tides and adding flexibility to on-site energy systems.
For more than two centuries, the shipyard’s been nestled on Seavey Island at the mouth of the Piscataqua River. With roughly 8,000 people there on any given day, it’s a small town unto itself — an entire community focused on a singular goal — the upkeep of this nation’s fleet of submarines.
“When you have a submarine in overhaul in the dry dock, it’s not water-tight any more. Right? We cut holes in the side of the submarine for access to get into different parts of the submarine so we can bring services in, so we can bring bigger equipment out,” said Capt. Dan Ettlich, the shipyard’s commander.
“You could imagine a worst-case event would be you get water coming over the drydock that’s greater than the capacity of the dry dock pumps to keep up with, and now you start getting a water-level event in that drydock and potentially hazarding the asset that we’re working on,” he said.
The very expensive, potentially mission-critical assets that are today’s modern subs. With sea levels predicted to rise between 3 and 6 feet here by the end of the century, their readiness could be at risk. And researchers said that as early as 2050, the shipyard is likely to be subject to a lot more flooding.
“We found that with just the more conservative or intermediate conservative scenario, the shipyard will see about 80 flood events per year. So this is up from just about ten or so events per year today,” said Shana Udvardy, a climate resilience analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists. [A far-left group of advocates that’s prediction global doom since the ‘60s, changing their culprit from an impending ice age to famine to GMO crops, to, now, global warming. This is who the Navy is using as a consultants? – ED]
In 2016, that group issued a report on the military’s readiness for rising seas. She said since then, scenarios pointing to greater flood risks are proving to be more likely.
Next to equity, diversity and the need for more transgender people of color:, Captain Dan told FWIW, “this is our biggest problem”.
Wow, sounds serious! Forget the Chinese (adjacent-whites)’ expansion of their military might across the oceans and in outer space, because they can just wait us out until we drown. But the article and warnings are all based on predictions of future disaster. What’s happened so far — other words, what’s the actual evidence of sea rise? The article refuses to say, so I looked it up, and found this study from the Maine Climate Council, a group established by the state’s Democratic Governor: You’ll have to click on the link to make the chart active, but here’s a static depiction of actual sea level rise vs “projections”: Actual rise ranges from a foot below the baseline to about 3” above it. We’re doomed, I tell you, doomed!
Just like Covid porn, if this is a real problem, why are actual numbers ever included in the reporting (and why do celebrities and politicians continue to jet and boat around the world and build mansions directly on the seashore)?
