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2007-03-12 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Jittery environmentalist flees NYC home for fear of climate change (and makes a killing)

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Posted by Mike 2007-03-12 09:51|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Zwigard is obviously a first class idiot, and no, that doesnt prove flooding from global warming wont be a problem.

But anyone with an IQ above 70 should be able to figure out that lower Manhattan, with some of the highest real estate values on the planet, will, if need be, end up protected by a sea wall, even at considerable expense.

Its lowlying farmland in places like Bangladesh, where youd need the entire countrys GDP (and then some) to build seawalls, that would be the problem.

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-03-12 10:24|| 2007-03-12 10:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Isn't it, like, unethical for her to sell that penthouse when she knows it's gonna be flooded? And she made all that money doing it. Isn't that, like, hypocritical? Oh, right, she's going to donate the profits to Al Gore.

/sarcasm

Posted by Elmereter Hupash6222 2007-03-12 10:35|| 2007-03-12 10:35|| Front Page Top

#3 She'll use the profits to stockpile black-market incandescent lightbulbs.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-03-12 10:53|| 2007-03-12 10:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Man, some people just don't have enough to worry about.
And if my parents had named me Paddington, I'd use some of the money to buy a gun and hunt them down...

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-12 11:02|| 2007-03-12 11:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Paddington is very bearish, it seems.

Posted by Grunter 2007-03-12 11:15|| 2007-03-12 11:15|| Front Page Top

#6 "younger, self-absorbed, mass-materialist consumers who are really not aware of anything outside their whatever,"

Yes, Paddington. Do tell.

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-12 11:18|| 2007-03-12 11:18|| Front Page Top

#7 ...younger, self-absorbed, mass-materialist consumers who are really not aware of anything outside their whatever...

I'm thinking of making this my motto: Not really aware of anything outside my whatever. Whaddaya think?

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-03-12 12:25|| 2007-03-12 12:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Perfect. Cafe Press that slogan onto mugs and bumperstickers and you'll make millions!

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-03-12 12:36|| 2007-03-12 12:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Flooded Penthouse...

Posted by danking_70 2007-03-12 14:16|| 2007-03-12 14:16|| Front Page Top

#10 A must see movie. The Great Global Warming Swindle.
Warning, 74 minutes long. Tip, skip the long intro.

Posted by Icerigger 2007-03-12 14:18|| 2007-03-12 14:18|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm thinking of making this my motto: Not really aware of anything outside my whatever. Whaddaya think?

Whatever.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-03-12 15:27|| 2007-03-12 15:27|| Front Page Top

#12 You can see a picture of Paddington Whatever Zwigard, and her overpriced Real Estate at the LINKY.

Posted by Chiper Threreger8956 2007-03-12 20:58|| 2007-03-12 20:58|| Front Page Top

#13 Green Penthouse, ya say? Don't have to buy pentinance with carbon footprint offsets from Al Gorilioni, ya say? But are ye woman enough to work on the slime line at a fish cannery, er are ye just a pretty picher in a magazine? Arrrr.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-03-12 21:53|| 2007-03-12 21:53|| Front Page Top

#14 HHHHHHMMMMMM, okay, I'll bite, iff NYC is doomed Dooomed DOOMED D-O-O-M-E-D DDDDDOOOOOOOMMMMEEEDDD ala DAY AFTER TOMMORROW + EARTH CHANGES, ergo buy other equally doomed Apts-Condos-Houses and resell to fellow doomed New Yorkers, etc Amers, instead getting the hell out of dodge???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-12 22:42|| 2007-03-12 22:42|| Front Page Top

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