Posted on 11/11/2013 4:11:15 PM PST by PJ-Comix
"SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!"
That was the demand of Jerry Maguire and the demand of your humble correspondent is SHOW ME THE DATA!!! I make this request because Nick Madigan of the New York Times wrote an article projecting heavy ocean flooding inundating South Florida in this century based on no solid evidence. Here are a few samplings of Madigan's fact free alarmisms:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
“in this century”.
lets get taxed to death for what might happen up to almost 100 years from now. Bernie maddoff wasn’t as big a shyster.
Really? I thought the ocean was always flooded?
Mybe it has to dry out first...
Facts don’t matter to watermelons. (green on the outside, commie red on the inside)
Beach erosion. Yeah...like that’s never happened before.
So good-bye Dixie Highway. I should’ve stayed on the farm.
There was another article earlier about how climate change would bring about smaller mammals and larger reptiles. (Yes it would, if it actually WERE warming.) But, my fave was a Philly Inquirer article about how increased carbon dioxide gases would cause poison ivy and oak to ‘bloom’. (Yes, and trees and crops, and all green plants)
-——“I don’t think people realize how vulnerable Florida is,” Harold R. Wanless, the chairman of the geological sciences department at the University of Miami, said in an interview last week. “We’re going to get four or five or six feet of water, or more, by the end of the century. You have to wake up to the reality of what’s coming.”-——
This idiot should be some simple math.... How much water will it take to put Miami under Six feet of sea water....
The answer is there is not that much water in the ice caps...
Sea levels began to rise 18k years ago at the end of the last glacial period. They have risen about 135 meters since then which is an average of 7.5 millimeters per year. That is an average of 750 mm per century (29.5 inches) which is far more than the average over the last century.
From 1880 to 2000 sea level rose about 20 cm or just under 8 inches. Far far less than the nearly 30 inches per century average over the last 18,000 years.
If Harold Wanless says there is going to be “4 or 5 or 6 feet of water, or more, by the end of the century,” then you can be sure that his computer model predicted exactly that. Well, “exactly” might not be a good word to describe 3 feet through infinity, but you know what I mean. And if his prediction was for zero to 1 inch of water by the end of the century he has a computer model for that as well. So instead of questioning his forecast let’s start a fund to purchase waders for the residents of the Florida shore.
Or a fund to buy Harold a new computer.
Harold should be studying stones, not getting stoned.
I loved Geology. Had great professors who actually taught from the book and in the field.
Glad they have passed on so that they don’t have to see what kind of leftist pseudoscience passes for the truth these days.
And if Florida goes underwater, the poor people of Georgia will become rich selling waterfront property (with gators and pythons and all the good things from the Everglades).
I’ll take Valdosta for $100, please.
Georgia Gulf Properties....I like that. The few hills there might make for some small gulf islands. (With gators and snakes, of course)
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