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Fun for the whole family: Let's pretend Boston gets hit by a Katrina-like storm
By adamg on Sat, 10/17/2009 - 8:45pm
Sure, you could just stage a boring rally to call for action on climate change. Or you could hold a Boston Under Water Climate Festival, featuring such fun events as
- Building a sandbag flood barrier
- A massive group photo in front of the sandbag wall with a banner calling on world leaders to get us back to 350 and to pass a fair, ambitious and binding climate treaty this yearFlooding Station: learn about what sea level rise and higher storm surges will mean for Boston
- Fred Small sings "Three Five 0"
- Canoe relay racing!!
- Participatory Climate Theater!!
- Plus blue face-painting, bike-flag making, and much, much more!
Saturday, Oct. 24, 3-5:30 p.m. at Christopher Columbus Park.
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Comments
Where are the zombies when
Where are the zombies when you need them.
Sandbaggers?
Kind of a catchy name ... although their services would be better applied down where the tide is already pushing water over major roadways:
WHEN: Friday - Monday
October 16 - October 19
Around the high tides
Boston Harbor high tides:
Friday: 10:06 a.m.; 10:34 p.m.
Saturday: 10:55 a.m.; 11:25 p.m.
Sunday: 11:41 a.m
Monday: 12:13 a.m.
WHERE: Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester
Between Beades Bridge and entrance to UMass/Boston
Winthrop Parkway
Short Beach area
Revere and Winthrop
Great way to protest--not
Great way to protest--not whiny. Attention grabbing. This kind of action might really take us somewhere closer to real change on this issue.
You'll be dead when big storms start to flood the city, Whitey. What does it matter to you?
Whit
A great way to protest -
A great way to protest - let's play dress-up and have a party!
If you knew the science, you'd shake your head, but you don't. The Citgo sign sits high over a six story building. The IPCC best estimate for sea level rise by 2100 is measured in inches, not storys.
This kind of thing comes out of Hollywood disaster movies, not science. And it discredits the cause it claims to represent. It's embarrassing. And yes, I certainly will be dead before that ever happens.
I don't think anyone is
I don't think anyone is claiming the Citgo sign will be covered--it's just a poster. I suppose that's just for fun. I assume we'll be like Venice at some point during my life, but I am not happy about that. Seasonal flooding in major coastal cities is going to be more than a minor inconvenience. And after I am dead permanent water is going to be the end for coastal areas of Boston. Just a few inches will be enough. I think you are the one who doesn't know the science.
Someone has to try to grab the public's attention somehow--this is a noble attempt to do that. What has worked thus far, in your opinion?
Whit
Mean versus peak
IPCC is out of date, too. I know, because I frequently work with people who were involved and they have been presenting what they learned since. Two things are now better understood:
1. sea level rise will not be even over the planet
2. sea level rise in the Northeast US will be disproportionately severe
Boston is one of the locations projected to have the highest impact, due to ocean forces that unevenly distribute sea level rise. By mid-century, we could experience severe flooding in a cat 2 hurricane because the rise in baseline will be much more than the global mean change - as in, the water could overtop the dam.
Mean sea level rise projections, even locally, exceed the IPCC 2007 projections. Peak is also a major worry, although the storm pattern and intensity changes aren't fully understood as of yet.
The road to hell
Is
paved with good intentionsunder two to three feet of water. Please seek alternate route.Oceans change all the time
Wonder what the New England Cave People (?) thought about their little global warming problem?
http://johnmckay.blogspot.com/2007/01/elephants-un...