Posted on 08/23/2013 3:07:00 AM PDT by dontreadthis
... And you thought he was kidding...
Full press release PDF explaining what is happening and what is coming, if they are right:
http://www.spaceandscience.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/ssrcpressrelease72013theendofgloballevelrise.pdf
Grog Island on the Chesapeake Bay vanished in my lifetime, not because of sea level rise, but of the loss of sea grass. The northeast side of the island used to have acres of underwater sea grass in the shallow waters on the most exposed side of the island. The grass calmed the waves and prevented erosion. The grass died out and within ten years the island was gone.
I have been coming to Deltaville for 50 years and the Bay waters at high and low tide are exactly where they have been since 1966 on the docks and sea walls that have been there since that time.
Interesting Bio. I'd like to know what he did for NASA....was he at the pointy end of the stick, or was he a bureaucratic wonk like James Hansen?
The sea levels are falling! We are all going to die! (Caused, of course, by globull warming.)
The island could have been sinking. I have no idea.
This theory about the sun is just theory, also. When groups with a clear agenda tell me something is scientific, no matter their side, I remain skeptical.
A healthy dose of skepticism is always the way to approach any big claim.
However, unlike the popular with progressives greenhouse gas theory, solar activity leaves evidences of its effects that can be measured and studied. Also, telescopes were in use during the last big reduction in solar activity, the Maunder Minimun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum
At that time and in cooler periods since, there are recorded accounts of these cooler periods coinciding with the reduction in sunspots.
As time went on, the mere visual notation that sunspots sometimes go missing became scientific measurements as to how that affects earth’s cilmate.
So, yeah, this may be “just a sun theory” but, unlike the wildly speculative greenhouse gas theory, it is one that is well understood and quite predictable.
It's difficult to prove that a scientific theory is true. You have to collect data FOREVER and the data has to agree with the predictions of the theory.
This contrasts sharply with the relative ease of proving that a scientific theory is FALSE. You only have to find one reliable fact which fails to conform to the theory.
So-called "Anthropogenic Global Warming" fails to predict the lack of warming experienced during the most recent decade. You may safely reject such a theory.
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