What will happen to Dixie by the water after they foolishly fell for conservative talking points and elected clueless morons or willfully ignorant sociopaths ranting that global warming was a hoax made up by all those alleged evil conspirators at NASA and NOAA? We can get a good idea by what’s already happening in some spots:
This summer, on a driving tour of Norfolk and nearby towns, William A. Stiles Jr. pointed to the telltale signs that the ocean is gradually invading the region. He spotted crusts of dried salt in the streets, and salt-loving marsh grasses that are taking over suburban yards. He pointed out trees killed by seawater. He stood next to one of the road signs that Norfolk has been forced to install in recent years, essentially huge vertical rulers so people know the depth of floodwaters at low-lying intersections.
Who are you going to believe? Your crashing property values to the tune of trillions of dollars, or the good men and women protecting the fossil fuel industry? In the meantime, don’t miss out, get in on the ground floor of the Greenland real estate market!
- Ainsley Bennet was kind enough to let me use the award-winning image above, please pay it back by visiting his site here to check out other great pics. You’ll be glad you did. You can see all the exquisite eye candy from this year’s Astronomy Photographs of the Year here.
- After decades of research and telethons raising hundreds of millions of dollars, the first drug to treat one form of the suite of diseases under the umbrella term of muscular dystrophy has finally been released.
- Apple’s iPhone 7 seems to be doing OK, thanks in part to some bad press hitting one or two of its competitors. I’m doing some research on robots, gadgets, and smartphones, and a big response to the poll below will help out, thanks!
- I may have more on this tomorrow on Sunday Kos. The robots are coming: We had better decide, now, who will own them and enjoy the fruits of that endless, cheap labor?
In the first five or more years, following the introduction of autonomous vehicles, the need for human drivers will actually increase, not decrease, wrote Zimmer. “As more people trade their keys for Lyft, the overall market will grow dramatically. When autonomous cars can only solve a portion of those trips, more Lyft drivers will be needed to provide service to the growing market of former car owners,” according to Zimmer.