Posted on 12/16/2019 9:03:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
At a campaign rally, President Donald Trump mocked concerns about global warming, saying that oceans would rise just “[o]ne-eighth of an inch within the next 250 years.” Although Trump’s comment may have been a joke - and not intended to be a prediction of sea level rise - his figure is many times lower than scientific estimates.
Trump’s remark came in Hershey, Pennsylvania, during a section of his speech bashing wind power - one of his favorite topics at rallies. This time, the president also jokingly referenced global warming, poking fun at people who are concerned about sea level rise.
Trump, Dec. 10: You’d have windmills all over the place if you had Crooked Hillary, they’d be knocking out those birds left and right. Those windmills, wah, wah wah. Darling, I want to watch television tonight and there’s no damn wind. What do I do? I want to watch the election results, darling, there’s no wind, the damn wind just isn’t blowing like it used to because of global warming, I think. I think it’s global warming. Global warming, no more wind, no more life! The oceans are going to rise. One-eighth of an inch within the next 250 years, we’re going to be wiped out!
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, global sea level is currently increasing by about an eighth of an inch per year, not an eighth of an inch over two-and-a-half centuries. The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Trump greatly underestimates the scale of the problem, and his dismissal of the dangers of sea level rise is not based in science.
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Beware the Solar Minimum! and remember who all the fraudsters are.
Most of the predicted sea level change isn’t from melt, but thermal expansion.
Not to say that is working out well either.
It can...from ocean currents.
But do ocean currents change and what causes the change? It seems strange all of a sudden Hawaii’s sea levels are rising just in time to support the climate change folks.
Ocean currents constantly shift a bit, on a decadonal basis.
They slide a bit north, and a bit south, out to sea, and more towards the shore.
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