I am skeptical about the whole thing. Not that it is happening, always has and always will. I'm simply not at all convinced that humanity is either part of the cause or the solution. We will go the way of the dinasaurs someday too people. Nothing is permanent. That is just the way of the world.

"Kristen Grant, a marine extension associate at Maine Sea Grant who helped coordinate the surveys. “I was very encouraged [by] the fact that people were largely as aware as they were and that they didn’t need a lot of basic climate change information,” Grant added."

Why is this pig dressed up as a "survey"?

It's pretty clear that Kristen Grant is a taxpayer funded shill, promoting an agenda that most people think is a crock of shyte.

This shows that if you tell a lie often enough people think it's the truth. The sea level hasn't risen, it's getting colder, (last 10 years), and you should prepare for an ice age, which is coming. After Obama's policies starve everyone to death it won't matter anyway. I can't understand why we must throw our last FEW dollars away on a "Jack and the Beanstalk" science. Poor destitute societies are dirty, polluting, societies so creating poverty , through "cap and trade" or other useless ploys for the folks, will result in a polluted earth.

A neat thing for folks to check out is the high and dry beach on Mount Desert Island. It's something like 170 feet above sea level, and makes a great geological or climate studies field trip for college kids. It was "the beach" during the last ice age. A mile of ice over Maine pushed the crust down that far. The earth is DYNAMIC folks and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it. This news paper story only reinforces my perception that mankind is related the common lemming. Lemming people committing economic suicide....

“We have just four months. Four months to secure the future of our planet.” ~ United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Aug 11, 2009

I thought all the moonbats lived in Belfast?

Should ban new construction within a +-mile of the ocean, Leaving the coast for future generations of everything to have harvest and enjoy.

It is not getting colder and the ice age isn't coming soon. We will see the polar bears dieing off before we see the ice age.

You damn fools think that the government lies to you, Well, I have news for you......YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT!

So you must be lieing to yourselbves!

kitterykid said "You damn fools think that the government lies to you..."

Hmmm...let's see...I've seen the Zapruder film (no lone gunman, methinks), WMD's, Iran-Contra, War on Drugs, and "US out of Iraq in 16 months" (the Messiah)....nope...no lies.

I don't understand...There hasn't been any sea level rise, and there haven't been any "stronger" storms. They have down-graded the hurricane forecasts for the last several years. And there is no scientific way to predict what the global climate is going to do in the grand scheme of things. Now even the temperature trend that "scientists" were so concerned about is not holding up. We had to change the terminology from "global warming" to "global climate change". Ask a meteorologist if man is creating a global warming problem, they aren't getting grant money thrown at them and they don't usually have a political agenda, so you might get an actual unbiased scientific opinion. FYI, erosion is constant, except where the eroded material is being deposited. Personally, I wouldn't build a house on the edge of a cliff, or alongside a flood-prone river, or below sea-level, but that's just me. We need to reduce pollution because it's POLLLUTION, yuck, and it kills things and is smelly etc., not because a great flood is coming. Fear-mongers.

Is global warming caused by man---- sure, but not to the extent that fools like Al-Almighty-Gore profess.

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If one wants to live on the coast, be foolish enough to get soaked for unfair tax valuations and have to put up with being assimilated into The Nature Conservancy Nazi Nature Collective “AND” on top of all that have to worry about coastal erosion~ well you must have money to burn!!!! Fool

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Hey kitterykid, I'd get out of town real quick! The government isn't lying, Algore doesn't lie, and you've got to realize that Kittery will be one of the first places to go. In fact, you need to keep a close eye on hurricane Bill. This could be the signal that doomsday is rapidly approaching. DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER!!

captainandy, you're such a cynic!

OK left wing moonbats...The SEA LEVEL IS RISING...Its called ...HIGH TIDE!

Well, I for one am convinced global "warming" is real in that the ice caps and glaciers ARE melting and see levels will be rising. Having said that, I think it's up to coastal property owners like myself to take reasonable measures to protect our seafronts and not expect somebody else to foot the entire bill. Since these measures can be pricey low interests loans or something of the kind would be a big help. I think the coast towns should help lobby for this as it's in their interest to preserve the tax value of our propertries.

Pretty humorous that all our limousine (Subaru or Prius when in Maine) liberals who live along the coast are "concerned" about global warming but think it's somebody else's job to fix it. They're all for the latest fad to solve the "crisis" and love to piously tell you all a out it but when I ask if I could stop by sometime to check out their windmill setup or their solar system, or even to tell me the details of how they superinsulated their house, I always get that same blank look from these climate change zealots. Most are too silly to even attempt to discuss energy issues with, but incredibly, it's their ilk who are currently making the policies that will bankrupt us and have no discernable effect on sea levels or our climate.

hitchtom, the sea levels have been rising for thousands of years, most recently about 8 inches per century. If you are so convinced that "see levels' will continue to rise don't you think it's about time to flee to higher ground? I don't care to bail you out so you're on your own. Might be in your interest to act expeditiously since "consensus science" until recently has been adamant that those melting glaciers could maybe/possibly suddenly dump prodigious amounts of water into the oceans and you could find yourself caught off guard like our federal science advisers.

Anyone who believes that humans are causing global climate change is running an intellectual deficit. How timely of the BDN to run an AGW article in the middle of a heat wave.

I've been browsing waterfront real estate in Maine. I find it scary how little freeboard most homes have above high tide. I would prefer to buy or build a home safer from flooding, even if it means I could not see the ocean from its windows.

All this survey does is confirm the sheeple believe the Al Gore bull they've been force fed. The survey is simply a way to falsly create the 'need' to fund via grant read: taxpayer money the Maine Sea Grant, the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and UMaine’s Center for Research and Evaluation and the Maine Coastal Program.

Maybe the sea is rising due to all the 'rapid new' erosion. Or maybe the 'rapid new' erosion is because the sea's rising. Geezum, it's really hard to keep up with you enviro libs.

WRofGlenburn

I consider myself a "healthy skeptic".

Most ot the current, sky-is-falling issues are so absurdly ridiculous, a second grader could easily debunk them............. as long as they were home schooled!

The highest concentrations of moonbats are found on the faculty of our public schools, where the kids are fed a steady diet of stupidity, diversity, "quieting" drugs and tasteless, high calorie foods, preparing them for a lifetime of government dependence.

Global warming or NO global warming... I don't care which you believe. The steps to limit pollution and secure green energy will only make the US stronger in the long term. The main complaint I hear about taking any steps is always the same... money, money, money. The hurray for me, fark everyone else attitude is whats wrong with our society. Greed is going to be our downfall. One doesn't have to look farther than our current economy to see how our obsession with money and wealth influences our culture. Please don't get me wrong, I like my new house and driving a new car; but I think that clean air and water is more important. Its often too late that we realize our mistakes, I'd rather err on the side of caution now. Sure, its possible that global warming is a myth... I don't care. If the air and water is cleaner, if we don't need to import oil from the middle east... I am all for it!!!

downeastdave what does clean air and water have to do with "global warming/change?" They are two very distinct and different issues. If you choose to pi$$ away your money on some mythical crises how will that help to clean up the environment? Oh, I understand...you are willing to pi$$ away someone else' s money to solve this mythical problem. Apparently you haven't a clue about what you are commenting on!

Now captain...surely you exaggerate. My daughter is a public school teacher and she is well aware of the shenanigans that go on in the school system. Of course she is not very popular and strictly limited on what she can criticize. Freedom of speech doesn't always apply to the public school system.

If we dug canals from the oceans to low-lying inland areas, like death valley, then we might be able to drain off the extra water from the melting ice caps.

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And as a side benefit, we'd also create more waterfront property, LOL.

"Now captain...surely you exaggerate. My daughter is a public school teacher and she is well aware of the shenanigans that go on in the school system."

I'll bet she'll back me up...........

"Freedom of speech doesn't always apply to the public school system. "

Moonbats can't win a debate on the merits of their arguments. Supressing the other side is their only recourse.

I have almost lived on my tiny lot of land near the top of a hill for almost a decade, and I see the effects of erosion. I have also seen over decades of my life the changes of shoreline on a lake. As trees get old and die and the dirt between the rocks and other parts of shore disappear, and the dirt from hills surrounding the lake and rock walls and wood barriers that have not been maintained both flow into the lake creating more land and sometimes filling the holes or just filling in other areas. The plant life also reflects its environment and weather or not the water pushes past a certain point at least once during the year. How does one consider where the high watermark is? All the while land is constantly being created and destroyed, much like the Hawaiian’s believe that while the volcano creates land, land is being taken away somewhere else, constantly being recycled.

Back to my property near the top of the hill, unlike other neighbors, I have returned the leaves, sticks and stems that fall on my yard to my yard and created a compost pile that gets turned every year and every year we take dirt and place it throughout the yard.

We have found we still run out of room to place all the pulled weeds, pieces of shrubbery and leaves. We have wanted to level some of the land, and fill holes, so we have. Even the children fill the hole at the bottom of their slide with grass, leaves and stems, to fill the hole. We also took a bunch of leaves and filled a ditch that had and has been developing from erosion from rainwater running along side of the road. Those leaves turned to dirt.

One day, the city decided to pour concrete to fill the ditch. The workers got to my property and realized there was no need to pour concrete so they lifted their equipment and moved to the next property down the road. I had to help pay for concrete through taxes because nobody else filled the ditch, and replaced the lost dirt. Now, you see this strip of concrete that stops in front of my house and starts again at the next property. I have also noticed land where we tried to cover exposed roots is now higher than our neighbors yard, and on another side of the hill we placed more debris because we ran out of room and now find that area too is higher up than another neighbor's yard more than it used to be. Instead of removing debris from the yard, we have been displacing it in our yard, therefore maintaining our yard and replacing any dirt lost from erosion. If everything were left to itself, the leaves and fallen branches would become part of the ground covering and create more dirt replacing what is washed away and in some cases more. Maybe if others did this there would not be as much visible effect of erosion or as much to repair and the costs would not be so high?

WR... yeah.. EXACTLY what I was talking about. You are one that loves to groan about money...very pathetic. You seem to know alot air and water quality issues. I am glad to see that you are some environmental scientist with all the answers or maybe you just like to appear that you know a bit about everything. Air quality has everything to do with global warming Mr scientist. Haven't you heard about the burning of fossil fuels and the resulting emissions? Whether or not, they contribute to warming... I said... I DON"T CARE! If you would leave Glenburn and maybe experience the world... you might see some of the environmental pollution. I wish you would fly into LA on a hot summer day and take a couple of long deep breaths... Actually, you don't even need to travel far. Did you not read about the recent air quality warnings here in Maine as well? You are correct that water quality does not have anything to do with global climate change. Perhaps you are too dense to realize that I was talking about environmental issues in general. But you don't care.... as long as you have a fat wallet, you are like a pig in slop.

...and lo... but who was worried about the plight of the Wooly Mammoth or the also extinct very large and usually hungry tigers?

Not your great,great,etc and if not careful and fast ancestors.