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The Rising Sea Level in the Northeast

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Publié le 08 mai 2014
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The latest report on climate change is chock full of information about how difficult our collective future could be, weather-wise.

One thing seems certain, the Great Plains region is probably going to fare a lot better than where yours truly grew up in the Northeast, though it’s a pretty good guess that the combination of the shale oil boom and winters that aren’t nearly as harsh as they once were will be attracting more people to places like the one we now call home in Montana.

We visited eastern Pennsylvania, less than an hour north of Philadelphia, just after Superstorm Sandy struck a couple years ago and, from the looks of the latest climate change data, that may become a more common occurrence.

Just the the fact that the Northeast recently had two once-in-a-century storms in three years should lend this report a lot more credence than the one four years ago in the minds of those who still don’t think climate change is real.

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Climate change is real -- geologists will tell you that. Any number of natural events influence short and long term climate: volcanoes, sun cycles, asteroid impacts, species disappearance or expansion. But that humans are the cause of the current flux is very much in doubt.

Overlooked is the political agenda of core environmentalists which, like communism, is the control of human beings for personal gain. Ayn Rand predicted decades ago how, with the collapse of communism in the 50s -- its ability to create utopia -- communist proponents like rats on a sinking hull would jump ship. And they did, embracing Mother Earth as the new idol individuals would be sacrificed to. Governments, using climate change as a club, have and are encroaching on our basic freedoms. Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING was their initial rallying point. That book, now known to have been based on faulty data, caused the use of DDT to be curtailed -- which resulted in the upsurge of malaria which had almost been eradicated. It is estimated that the abandonment of DDT caused the needless deaths of millions of men, women, and children.

Also, what is little known yet taught in every basic geology course is that humans are now living in an interglacial period, that is, between ice ages. So, if anything, humans causing any kind of global warming ought to be encouraged.
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I am a little teed off when I hear somebody spout "Climate Change". Yes, I understand the earth goes through periodic climate changes, but to me the question is what causes this and whether or not we are in a prolonged and ever increasing trend. I have doubts that sea levels are capable of being measured to such a minute level of precision and consistent accuracy and query whether past data that may have been gathered would have been gathered with the same degree of accuracy or consistency with what we THINK we can achieve today. In other words such calculations are ripe with potential errors.

As to the cause. I am far from convinced that man is the cause - and I am making an assumption here that the author may be implying that man is the cause. If I have done so in error I apologize but I do so because many articles which advocate the realness of the concept of climate change appear to conclude that man is the cause. For me that is a huge leap of faith. Science demonstrates that the earth has periodically and frequently gone through extreme climate aberrations that can be short periods and long periods, that can sometimes be intense and sometimes be more benign and some causing cooling effects and some causing warming effect. Historically all that we can say about these is that ALL have been the consequence of natural forces. SO to me it is narcissistic to credit man with the seeming ability to overpower mother nature and our solar companion.

As it is, many climate change advocates ascribe the cause to emissions, in particular emissions of carbon dioxide citing levels of carbon dioxide created by man. My problem is how do you reconcile those tonnages with the amounts of carbon dioxide released by some relatively recent and natural - volcanic eruptions. Estimates of the carbon dioxide from these eruptions dwarfs in a few days what man has produced in the last few hundred years. Even if you might accept the proposition that man could be contributing to climate change (and I am not advocating for this), then when you factor in natural carbon dioxide emissions and reconcile that with the data - man's impact in even the worst case - must be lessened severely. Solar data would also suggest that it has a far bigger impact than carbon dioxide and historical examination of carbon dioxide levels reveals that global warming periods precedes the periods where carbon dioxide was elevating - the reverse of what is being argued today. Don't take my word for this - look it up.

What I find disturbing about many climate change advocates is not only do they seem to believe we have a serious problem, they believe we created it and how they wish to redress the problem - which may not be real in the first place - is to throw copious amounts of cash against in, all in the hopes that they are right.

Lets get real. No amount of action we might take to reduce emissions levels is going to help to the extent man is NOT the cause. And even if man is contributing at some level, we have to realize practical limitations that exist and implementing massive carbon tax programs or imposing unsustainable emission programs will only be taking money out of yours and my pockets for something that will likely have no practical effect for 150 years or more. I guess there are many who are willing to allow their pockets to be picked - and thats OK in my books - just don't think that you should have the right to pick my pocket - especially for something so nebulous and impractical to begin with.

In other words, apart from the fact that man's effects are at best negligible, even if you might accept the premise that man is the cause, we must be realistic and realize there is no way that we can practically and globaly reduce emissions quickly enough and by an amount significant enough to achieve a reduction in the effect that is postulated.

So even to the extent there may be some real and prolonged climate change underway (whether caused by natural effects or even if you accept it is man made) the better response might be not how whether we can reverse it - but how best might we manage the effect as practically we will need to accept its inevitability whatever the cause.

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The Man Made Global Warming crowd are an odd bunch, they desperately want to save the world so they are easily driven to believe the 'at best questionable science' that supports the theory. They out right reject science that goes against their beloved theory and any scientist, no matter how great their credentials or experience in the global climate, is smeared as a denier, a garage scientist. Even when you present data that clearly refutes what the media feeds the masses they seem to shelve their thinking ability. One of the great lies is that since the beginning of man burning fossil fuels en mass CO2 has been the cause of ever increasing storm activity. Even if you present to them data from NOAA that shows its business as usual they simply write you off as an idiot. I refer here to a document put out by NOAA, http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/nws-nhc-6.pdf that clearly illustrates that from the time hurricane and cyclone activity has been tracked (1851) there isn't anything unusual in what we've seen the last 20 years. Look at page 15 table 6 for a quick overview/summation of storm activity and severity.

The MMGW bunch also quickly throw out any notion that the earth warming may actually be a natural event. These are the same people who back in the 70's were screaming from the roof tops that we were headed for an ice age. These people were easily lead to believe we would all freeze to death by the year 2000.

There is so much chatter about how big corporations are ruining the earth by burning fossil fuels to generate electricity and they demand we all start using solar and wind power. In talking to these people none of them has an understanding of how the whole electrical grid functions. Many in fact think of it as some sort of battery, during a sunny day or periods of high winds electricity is generated through these "green" options and then we can draw this electricity out of the grid at night. Once you explain how this all works and how power generation plants are still required (they love their AC on hot summer nights) they seem to gloss over and return to a zombie like state spewing MMGW propaganda.

And all those carbon taxes, where do these people think the money is going, some poor third world country? It's going straight into the pockets of big business. It's a great shell game, make people believe what they have is bad so they pay you more for what they think is better while receiving the same old crap. Is it any wonder that an organization like the UN is behind the shell game?
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Climate change is real -- geologists will tell you that. Any number of natural events influence short and long term climate: volcanoes, sun cycles, asteroid impacts, species disappearance or expansion. But that humans are the cause of the current flux  Lire la suite
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