“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven”. The verse continues, “A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up”
– Ecclesiastes 3:1
Rather than dealing with the real problems they created in San Francisco, the left-wing Democrats who run the city choose to focus on stopping imaginary sea level rise.
The Washington Post motto is “Democracy Dies In Darkness” – which also seems to be their mission statement.
NOAA says August was the hottest ever, including record heat in the Congo – where they don’t have any thermometer data.
The other NOAA map doesn’t look so scary.
Global Mapping | Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
In 1988, experts predicted the Great Lakes states would warm 4-9 degrees and the lakes would lose 2-9 feet of water by the year 2030. This would cause millions of people to migrate there.
30 Sep 1988, Page 3 – Detroit Free Press at Newspapers.com
Average temperatures at the Great Lakes states peaked in 1921 and are about the same now as they were at the end of the 19th century.
The frequency of hot days in the region has plummeted over the past century to record lows.
There has been no trend in Great Lakes water levels over the past century.
The Great Lakes Go Dry: How One-Fifth Of The World’s Fresh Water Is Dwindling Away – ThinkProgress
Last January, the “Great Lakes News Collaborative” predicted record low Great Lakes ice cover.
“The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; and Michigan Radio, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change
Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are both likely to see less ice than ever at peak freeze in 2022. “Michigan and Huron were both projected to be lower than they’ve been as far as the maximum ice cover for the year, about 10 and 12%, respectively, where the lowest on record was about 13 and 23%, respectively.”
Great Lakes researchers predict record-low ice coverage – Great Lakes Now
A few weeks later ice cover was right at the 1980-2010 median.
Apple does their manufacturing in Asia, so they can use very low cost labor and pretend they care about social justice and CO2 emissions.
There has been little or no sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay over the last 80 years, but the city of San Francisco wants to take drastic action to save the city from sea level rise
“San Francisco considers lifting the Ferry Building by 7 feet to save it from the sea”
San Francisco’s plan to save its historic shoreline from climate change : NPR
Sea Level Trends – NOAA Tides & Currents
The Ferry Building is built on fill dirt, and may be sinking.
“The San Francisco shoreline from 1895. Pink shows areas of artificial fill; blue shows historical marshlands and creeks. (Oakland Museum of California)”
Large Parts of the Bay Area Are Built on Fill. Why and Where? | KQED
The shoreline hasn’t changed since 1938.
Britain is not going to decarbonize, they are not going to reach net-zero, they will not stop bad weather, and if they try they won’t have energy security.
Chief Scientific Adviser visits to discuss Net Zero | Corporate | University of Leeds
The Washington Post reports:
“U.S. has seen a record number of weather disasters this year. It’s only September.
“It takes a lot to surprise me,” said a government scientist who tracks billion-dollar disasters. “But this year has been a surprise.”
Hurricane Idalia, which barreled through the Big Bend region of Florida late last month before battering other communities in Georgia and the Carolinas, thankfully wasn’t the cataclysmic storm that forecasters had feared days before.
But the Category 3 hurricane, which caused widespread flooding in some communities, still left behind a costly trail of damage — and solidified an unsettling place in the record books.
Idalia became the 23rd “billion dollar” weather disaster to strike the United States this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported on Monday, eclipsing the previous record of 22 set in 2020. And there are still four months left in this year, with the very real potential for more devastating weather ahead.”
23 ‘billion-dollar’ natural disasters have hit the US in 2023 – The Washington Post
This week in 1926, Miami was destroyed by a hurricane.
“Damages in 1926 dollars were estimated at $105 million, which would be more than $164 billion in today’s dollars.”
There has been a huge increase in the population of the Gulf Coast since the 1920s. The amount of property at risk is orders of magnitude higher.
Rob Reiner explains that the survival of democracy requires no one is allowed to run against the incumbent.
