Today the New York Times is hysterical about retreat of the glacier at Glacier Bay, Alaska.
The Big Melt Accelerates – NYTimes.com
That glacier retreated 50 miles between 1790 and 1892. Retreat has been much slower since the 1940’s. As usual, the New York Times is showing the intelligence of Monty Python witch burners.
Whenever climate experts need funding and attention, they make mindless hysterical sea level forecasts. They did it in 1986, and they are doing it again now. The amazing thing is that people still listen to them.
SIGNIFIGANT RISE IN SEA LEVEL NOW SEEMS CERTAIN
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Published: February 18, 1986MANY scientists are so sure that the sea level will rise visibly in the coming decades that they are advising planners to adopt new strategies now. A predicted rise in sea level of one foot within the next 30 to 40 years will drive much of the Atlantic and Gulf shoreline inward by a hundred feet and some of it by more than a thousand feet, according to marine geologists. The environmental and economic consequences will be felt much farther inland.
SIGNIFIGANT RISE IN SEA LEVEL NOW SEEMS CERTAIN – NYTimes.com
Our best minds hope to stop subsidence through cutting off our energy supply.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has been mostly mum on the threat his state faces from sea level rise during this year’s gubernatorial race, but according to a Tampa Bay Times story, sea level rise could hit the governor a lot closer to home than he might think.
Gov. Scott’s beachfront property is in the path of sea level rise projections in the state, putting the governor in “one of the most vulnerable positions” in regards to rising waters, the Times reports. The governor’s $9.2 million Naples mansion sits about 200 feet away from the ocean and a foot above sea level, and the sea on his stretch of beach has risen about 8 or 9 inches over the last century.
Gov. Rick Scott’s Climate Denial Won’t Save His Waterfront Mansion | ThinkProgress
The tide gauge at St. Petersburg shows a linear rate of “sea level rise” since the start of records 70 years ago. This is due to subsidence.
I’m not convinced yet that superstition and wildly self-destructive behavior by progressives can stop subsidence.
California is at the “epicenter” of global warming and other climate change, with the state experiencing longer fire seasons, rising sea levels and droughts that threaten agriculture, Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday.
Gov. Brown: California At ‘Epicenter’ Of Climate Change « CBS Los Angeles
Satellites show that sea level is falling in California
In 1991, California had a fire which destroyed 3,000 homes.
California has had droughts lasting over 200 years
Severe Ancient Droughts: A Warning to California – New York Times
Alarmists can’t understand why skeptics want to see the planet destroyed.
Skeptics can’t understand why alarmists allow themselves to be useful idiots for unscrupulous politicians who have demonstrated repeatedly that no lie is too big, and that they are willing to destroy the reputation of science in order to push their agenda.
A clean, healthy environment depends on free people and abundant, cheap energy. Communist countries like the Soviet Union and China are/were a mess.
Nobel Laureate Al Gore predicted in his acceptance speech, that the Arctic will be ice-free in just over 12 weeks.
COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
My ferocious dogs were recently seen guarding Mark Twain’s home in Hannibal, Missouri
Note Tom Sawyer’s fence. Becky Thatcher’s house is across the street.
Mark Twain grew up in spectacular spot, one block from the Mississippi River and surrounded by beautiful hills. I can imagine that he had fantastic childhood exploring around Hannibal, Missouri.
Temperatures through May 17 have been the coldest on record in the US
145 Guardian readers approved of some moron’s appeal to NASA’s authority, because he didn’t understand the “fancy words” being used.
In 1971, NASA predicted a disastrous new ice age – starting in 2021.
