Posted on 02/03/2010 3:07:27 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Polls indicate that an alarming number of Americans have doubts about global warming, even to the point of suspecting that scientists are lying about the data. Meanwhile, much of the bluster about climate change centers on whether it has been colder this year than last.
But instead of relying on short-term thermometer readings, we should be listening to Mother Earth. Let's take a trip around the northern half of the Western Hemisphere to see the real-world evidence that our planet is getting warmer.
Our first stop is the Outer Banks of North Carolina. As we fly toward our destination, we see a fringe of dead trees stretching for miles in the water along the shore of the Albemarle Sound - a clear indication that the rising sea is drowning the edge of the forest.
Flying over the Outer Banks, we also observe that islands are eroding on both their ocean and sound shores, another sign of the rising sea level. The islands are thousands of years old, yet they won't exist much longer with such erosion. In the town of Rodanthe, the island is so narrow and low that it can be washed over by something as slight as a lunar tide. The rising sea level has clearly changed this shoreline.
Once we've landed at the Wright brothers' airstrip, we drive to the Army Corps of Engineers' research pier in the town of Duck. Because the pier extends into the open ocean and is made of concrete, the tide gauge here may be the best record of the rising sea level on the East Coast. It tells us that sea level here is rising at a rate of 1 1/2 feet per century. Satellites tell us this is very close to the global rate at which sea levels are rising.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
I don’t doubt there is climate change. That fact is, we didn’t do it.
And in Montana, we see miles of prairie where an ancient ocean used to be. And in Switzerland, we see giant boulders on the ground which used to be on top of glaciers. And in Arizona, there’s a mile deep hole dug out by the Colorado River.
Suspecting?? They were caught red-handed!
Cap and Trade, Enron traders in hell ping.
There’s always been “climate change.” Even a cursory look at the data shows times of warming and times of cooling-—going way back to when there were few people, no cars, no oil, etc etc.
“It tells us that sea level here is rising at a rate of 1 1/2 feet per century.”
It tells me that the land there is sinking 1 1/2 feet per century.
If the sea is rising then it will rise at the same rate world wide as water will find it’s own level across the globe.
Mel
Lets take a look outside Southern Maryland.
12 inches of Global warming on the Ground and rumors of 2 feet coming this weekend. Mention Global warming to me and be prepared to fight.
Did it ever occur to these wizards, that Outer banks are lower due to the shifting of sand and other materials washed out to sea....
Spewage, simply spewage.
The cherry picking continues.
Salt spray from large storms will do the same thing.
They describe the process of erosion as if it has only come into existence the past few decades...deep emoting, shallow thinking pretty well sums up this article.
Not to mention the serious currents! It is not called the Graveyard of the Atlantic without a reason.
If you’re going to write an article pushing the likelihood of climate change, you can’t write diddlysquat like this: “...even to the point of suspecting that scientists are lying about the data.” So called “scientists” were lying about the data, a lot of data, so suggesting that people who believe they were lying are being extreme, “even to the point,” is stupid. The argument of rising sea levels needs more than one area to support it. How much have the sea levels risen in the past 100 years, 1 inch, 2 inches, maybe less? What are we talking here in reliable measurements. Before diving off the anthropogenic, global-warming cliff, an honest person might want to ask if the arctic has had less ice than it presently has in recent history, and if that accounted for dramatically higher sea levels. Were sea levels dramatically higher when Greenland was an agrarian resort? To what extent do the Earth’s oceans level out? Supposing there is an increase of seasonal warming in arctic regions, could rising waters be negated by the increasing ice levels at the antarctic? Who is being unreasonable here?
So, it's alarming that a number of Americans aren't alarmed by the proven alarmist lies of proven liars?
I fail to find the alarmingness.
Seems “unexpected”.
I love your posts, man!
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