You simply can’t make up the stupidity level on display at the New York Times
While levels worldwide are expected to rise an average of two to three feet by 2100, they could surge more than six feet along the Atlantic seaboard. The study named Boston, New York, and Norfolk, Va., as the three most vulnerable metropolitan areas.
They are expecting sea level to be four feet higher along the East Coast, than the rest of the world. It must be that new kind of water which mounds up at one end of the swimming pool.
And who said our eductional system is not ‘dumbed-down’.
NYT the sheeples’ News.
that must be really hard water!
From the NYT article:
“Globally, sea levels have risen eight to 10 inches since 1880…”
From a source OTHER than NYT:
“In North America, pollen and charcoal in sediments from Chesapeake Bay record climatic changes over the last 1000 years (Brush 1991). During the Medieval climatic optimum, large influxes of charcoal, sediment, and metals indicate more frequent forest fires and higher rates of erosion in the surrounding basin. Forest in the Chesapeake basin recovered, and erosion diminished, during the following few centuries of cold climate. In southern Florida, sea level was at least ½ m higher than now from the first through tenth centuries (Froede 2002).”
http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/ice/lec19/lec19.htm
Half a meter is over 19 inches. So, for about a 1000 years, sea levels were 19 inches higher than today, then they [must have] dropped much lower so that they could rise 10 inches since 1880, to get where they are today.
Question: What exactly is “average” sea level “supposed” to be?
Average sea level = current sea level x CAGW model predictions > alarm
That is not the only study that calls rising sea levels hogwash.
The Sea level High Stand was thousands of years ago and the earth is now cooling off in the last gasp of the Holocene. (The Holocene interglacial is now 11,717 years old, that’s two centuries or so beyond half the present precession cycle.)
The Holocene sealevel Highstand was ~ 1.5 meter above todays sea-level 6,000 years ago in geologically stable South Vietnam. Sea level has been DECREASING in fits and starts ever since then.
The paper, Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic says: “Solar energy reached a summer maximum (9% higher than at present) ~11 ka ago and has been decreasing since then, primarily in response to the precession of the equinoxes. The extra energy elevated early Holocene summer temperatures throughout the Arctic 1-3°C above 20th century averages, enough to completely melt many small glaciers throughout the Arctic, although the Greenland Ice Sheet was only slightly smaller than at present.”
Another, more recent study in Norway agrees:
The authors of all these papers simply state that most small glaciers likely didn’t exist 6,000 years ago, but the highest period of the glacial increase has been in the past 600 years. This means more water is bound up in glaciers and the sea level has fallen. This is hardly surprising with ~9% less solar energy.
During the Ice Ages the coastlines were way out on the continental shelves. Way lower than today.
I suspect the global warmists are working with polar bears to bring back the Ice Ages. Seriously. They are insane.
Most of the polar bears I know are quite sane and would be rather peeved to be lumped in with the Warmists. You really don’t want a polar bear mad at you.
I doubt they are insane. I think they know glaciation is going to happen soon so they want to make sure THEY survive and the useless masses don’t have a snowballs chance in hades of surviving. (Immigrants from Mexico are not useless since they can work the land under primitive conditions. 75% of Mexico’s farmers were bankrupted by Clinton’s NAFTA and have moved to cities in Mexico or immigrated.)
How many inner city types are going to survive the cutting off of cheap energy and cheap food, all paid for on the tax payers dime?
How many are going to riot and destroy like they did in Detroit and are now doing in Fergusion?
Jan, 2010 Business Insider: Barton Biggs: Stock A Safe Haven With Food And Firearms To Protect Against Doomsday Pillagers
But the government is one step ahead of the mavericks who might survive: (think FEMA)
Strange, I never saw this in the Constitution.
Seems if we actually follow the Constitution we should have just about ALL of Washington DC up on charges for “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Foreign interests spend $87 million lobbying in U.S.
Mexico Is Among The Top 10 Countries Paying Washington Lobbyists
How Foreign Governments Make Sure You Don’t Know They’re Lobbying: Countries from Uzbekistan to Ukraine use a loophole to try to quietly influence the United States. A “foreign agent” by any other name.
And then there is Clinton who sold the entire country out to China. link
The NYT editorial board is now so far gone that it doesn’t realize how stupid it looks. Global warming? C’mon. Is there a physicist or engineer onboard?
The once-proud paper is no better than a penny broadsheet, a daily confirmation of modern-day “journalism’s” descent into yellow journalism. Buy it for the BOGO ads — and for the cat litter.
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if the sea is four feet higher, that means the sky will be four feet higher. The moon will be four feet closer. Getting to mars will be quicker, but this is a navigational hazard to satelites.
we should not be blase about this
Yes, but at night, & for half the year, Mars will be further away. I think. Let me do some climate maths.
Surf’s Up!
Water and gravity can be more complicated in the ocean than in a swimming pool. Consider, for instance, that if the Greenland ice cap were to melt entirely, the waters off Greenland would recede, with new beaches emerging from the waves.
How? How could this happen with sea level rising?
The mass of the ice cap now pulls on the water, heaping it up some. With the ice cap gone, its gravity would also be gone.
The extra water thus released would have to go somewhere.
I haven’t thought this through all the way, and I don’t claim to understand just how or why we should expect a greater rise in sea level off New York than in general. But there could be all sorts of things that are not obvious, like that ice cap thing, that the scientists have had to take into account. So I don’t just dismiss their prediction as ridiculous.
THe Beach Boys will have to move to the right coast. That will make for some great swells!
The coast may be at Yorktown. Still not quite close enough.
A friend owned a house in Lanexa. When Isabel hit, she suffered flooding from the storm surge! She was on a tidal tributary. 😉
NY Times doing prep work for Zero’s upcoming illegal (circumventing Congress) global climate initiative. Wednesday will get interesting.
I agree. However everyday is too interesting for my taste. It is Chaos to my mind.
Some more help from Bloomberg reporting a so call UN leak –
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-26/irreversible-damage-seen-from-climate-change-in-un-leak.html
Not a leak, it’s placement to ready the sheeple.
Steve, of course they believe that nonsense. They believe the nonsense Aviso puts out. http://suyts.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/steve-goddard-reveals-ocean-downhill-skiing-opportunity/
This is the etheral foo foo world of progressive nirvana. You click your heels 3 times and all your eco psycho dreams can come true. Plants begin to talk, and spawn flowers made of 100 dollar bills. Healthcare costs nothing, and no one needs to work. Everything is free, and everyone can retire to seek their inner Lohan. CO2 begins to heat the planet, but heavy taxation brings joy to all and they begin to walk everywhere (when they aren’t shivering in their beds), and earth is saved.
And unicorn farts replace evil cow farts (they have healing properties, you know).
Kenyan-blessed Stimulus Water?
Gee. Maybe we don’t have global warming 🙂