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Originally Posted by pj3000
I'm sure you're well aware, but I'll point it out since it's a less-considered potential effect of warming trends.
The less/lack of winter ice factor is becoming a big problem for erosion of the shorelines of the Lakes. Many areas are taking major beatings from wave action driven by winter storms, which otherwise wouldn't happen due to being iced over. It's normal to have a sporadic warm winter where the Lakes won't freeze over (particularly along the shorelines), but when the non-freezing over events become an annual occurence, then it becomes quite damaging. The economic effects resulting from infrastructure damage along the shorelines are staggering... potentially hundreds of trillions of dollars in direct costs.
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The costs that will have to be dealt with in the great lakes will be about 0.00001% of the costs for the oceanic coasts.
It is REALLY time to kill off taxpayer funded flood insurance. Waaay too many people with their hands out.