I read a startling article on climate change this week. The title was something like significant sea level rises have been recorded in Houston and I believe it was Louisiana or Mississippi. I did not get to follow up as my Internet went down and I could not get to the link.
What is troubling is that I read it either on the weather.com site or the Weather Channel site. This is the kind of scientific knowledge or analyses from so-called science experts? Now I understand why John Coleman, a co-founder of The Weather Channel, disassociated himself from the network in later years.
Does anyone else see a problem with this? There have also been articles on seas rising in my wife’s home islands of Micronesia, but not all islands. The problem I have with all of this is: how can melting glaciers make the seas rise only in specific places?
https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/john-coleman
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I agree with Steve Walton. Public deception is rife in the media. There was a story a couple of months ago about dramatic ice loss in south-western Greenland that could cause unprecedented warming on the US east coast.
As it turns out, there was a public record of Greenland’s ice mass budget that showed no such thing, and in fact Greenland was gaining ice mass, and was very near the multi-decadal average. The story was widely ridiculed, and died an ignominious death. Shortly thereafter, the agency publishing the Greenland ice mass budget, took down that portion of its site.
A few weeks later, we saw virtually same story, but this time it was Canada’s Baffin Island, just across Baffin Bay from Greenland. Do not believe a word about “climate change” that you read in the popular media.
“Climate change” is real. The climate of earth has been changing sine the beginning. The issue here is that humans have little, more like next to nothing to do with it. The lie that humans account for some significant portion of climate change is a deception that has been pumped into the public schools for decades. The reason governments have pushed this lie is to control populations by giving the sense that only government intervention can “save the earth”. This is complete nonsense. I’m sure older folks here will remember what we were being told about climate back in the early 70’s, that if we did not do something immediately, by the turn of the century the earth would be an uninhabitable frozen marble in space. The beauty of humans is that we were born with a brain and the ability to reason. When the climate changes we either figure out to put on more clothes and invent a way to warm our shelters or we take off some clothes and figure out a way to cool our shelters. It is simply a shame that we have such a huge portion of the population that have been tricked by all the snake oil salesmen that want to take their money and freedom and make empty promises of saving the earth. This is truly a con.
I’m not quite old enough to remember the “frozen marble” rhetoric, but I do remember the popularization of the “j-curve” predictions and the “real time” population growth marquees (that typically only accounted for average birth rates) appearing in museums.
These people are Harold Camping.
And all of this nonsense can be traced back to Paul Ehrlich and “The Population Bomb”. There is a whole group of people out there who think the main problem with Earth is there are too many parasites on it (we call them HUMANS).
I think they want to be Thanos.
Geologically stable land, such as Australia, is required to form a reasonable reference for measuring sea level. The great British/Australian/Tasmanian John Daly did a lot research into the tide marks in Tasmania made by the early English settlers and showed that the average sea level had moved an average of 0.3 mm per year over the century since. Not exactly alarming.
https://www.john-daly.com/deadisle/
In many of those places, it is purposeful deception: the sea is not rising, the land is sinking.