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The US Navy places more faith in a study by The National Research Council than they do the on commentary from Fox News and talk radio. The study showed that arctic ice is receding at 10% a decade and that the Navy will have to protect the sea lanes that will develop. The study accepts the scientific research on climate change and indicates that the Navy will have to be prepared to deal with unpredictable natural disasters. They estimate that $100 billion of the Navy's coastal assets are at risk to rising sea levels. Perhaps tea partier's would pay more attention to climate change if they heard about it from the Admiral in charge of the study. It would be more effective if a historian could show that our founding father's were concerned about climate change but the military would be an acceptable alternative.
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