“The sea level rose at nearly all U.S. coastline measurement stations in 2019, leaving scientists to warn that the likelihood that heavy flooding will strike is becoming more likely.” So wrote Sandy Fitzgerald in Newsmax February 3. But never fear. The facts and some solid reasoning will show that that outcome is unlikely, even as […]
Sea Level Up at Almost All US Coasts—So What? Learn More »
According to a claim making the rounds through the media, global “temperature is expected to rise by 2.8° C at the end of this century due to climate change. This … will cause sea levels to rise, causing half of the world’s beaches to disappear.” My current search turned up at least a dozen more
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The Los Angeles Times manages to take its usual, circuitous way around to tell us its grim story, but in the end has made my point that natural cataclysmic events like plagues, earthquakes, tsunamis, storms and rare unscheduled visits by a celestial object present a far greater, and over time, a more real and present danger
Which Is the Greater Threat to San Diego? Climate Change, or Earthquake? Learn More »
Today’s email brought this from someone recently returned from a cruise along the coasts of New England and Canada: I think I heard at least two, maybe three, of the Canadian tour guides make comments regarding global warming. They are fully convinced that it is happening and that it is having a drastic effect on
Rising sea level, higher storm surges, milder winters, oh my! Learn More »
Imagine that you live in a $450,000 home situated along a stream out in the country. With very heavy rains, the stream rises about three feet, but your home is two feet above that level. One day, though, upstream, a landslide changes the flow of another stream. It previously fed into your stream below your
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Three years ago, YaleEnvironment360, published by the reliably climate-alarmist Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, ran “Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat,” by Nicola Jones, a freelance journalist specializing in chemistry and oceanography. The article followed the standard formula of warnings about climate change and its catastrophic consequences: present a scary
21st Century Sea Level Rise: 6 Feet, or 3 Inches? Learn More »
