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The biggest problem for those wanting to take over the world in order to prevent global warming is that people prefer warm to cold. The words “Ice Age” provoke genuine fear. The words “Warm Age” invoke a pleasant tropical vacation.
Raising CO2 levels are not toxic to any living creature on earth. In fact, the opposite is true. All plant life thrives under elevated CO2 levels.
So, Al Gore and his merry band of fear mongers settled on three big fears. Loss of habitat for animals that currently live in cold areas, a worldwide increase in the number and severity of extreme weather events, and the biggest fear of all, massive flooding from rising oceans due to tsunamis of melting Ice.
The American EPA chose fear of number one as the hook on which to justify all of its CO2 regulations. In particular, they proclaimed that global warming was endangering the polar bears due to the shrinking ice fields in the Arctic. Unfortunately for the fear mongers, but fortunately for the polar bears, the last thirty years have seen a substantial rise in the number of polar bears.
The other highly publicized loss of habitat due to warming was the reduction in size and health of the great ocean reefs. Alas, it appears that ocean reefs have a cycle of growth and decline that is unrelated to the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
As for the second great fear, extreme weather, those who keep track of such things unanimously report that the last thirty years have not seen an increase in either the severity or frequency of extreme weather events.
The ace-in-the-hole, however, has always been the fear of rising sea levels. The Indian Ocean island chain known as the Maldives was the canary in the mines. It appears there is no “high ground” on these islands. If the sea level goes up, they disappear. Well, guess what? They are still here. In fact, they are building hotels for the eco-tourists instead of sea walls.
Which brings us to today’s news. A while back, an engineer decided to try to actually measure changes in sea level. It turns out there are some 60 different places around the world that have been recording sea level for 60 years or longer. The recorders thought they were recording tide levels, but hey, they wrote down how high the ocean got on their measuring pole multiple times a day and never threw away the paperwork.
This engineer is not a climate scientist. He has no theory to support. He makes no predictions. He reports historical facts. The facts are: the global sea level is rising at a rate of 6 inches every 100 years. That is 0.6 inches every decade, or 0.06 inches every year. 0.06 inches is approximately 1/16th of an inch.
Sound the alarm! Run for the hills! Kill all the birds with windmills!
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It's bigger than that.
There is an enormous amount of sea level data available, over many decades, because... commerce. Shipping logistics has always relied upon sea levels. And the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has compiled a large number of sea level measurements and made them available on line. Check'm out here. I think it's totally fascinating.
For instance, I live in the San Francisco Bay area. Here are the sea level trends in the San Francisco Bay over the last century:
This data tells us that the Pacific Ocean level has barely been rising at all, 1.42 inches per century.
And that's dwarfed by the regular 7 foot tides.
With no noticeable increase with modern industrialization.
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Rich people have bought up all the beachfront property in scenic areas. All you need to know about their actual concern about sea levels rising.
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This creates a negative feedback loop which mitigates further increases in CO2 . . .
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Pragmatically it is irrelevant what the West is doing to their economies from overhyped fears. Neither the Chinese or India is going to stop their energy consumption trajectory for their national improvements of civilization level betterment against false tales of “climate change”.
We are just being stupid, and the end goal is really about controlling the proles. It’s the typical power grab aided by the normal band of useful idiots.
Think I can say this as one who spent 15 years of their career helping to develop the satellite base measurement system that failed to justify the climate modeler’s pre conceived predictions of how the climate was catastrophically changing. They had the audacity to initially claim our data was incorrect, despite all of the data and their supporting algorithms being publicly available on line to anyone.
It’s not about climate change. It never was.
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