Full-blown propaganda by the AP. Who else? Love how they cherry pick weather events and then roll them into their “global warming is causing it” meme.
Heavy summer storms temporarily flood numerous parts of FL. South Florida is not alone in this regard.
Let’s also look at the supposed “cause” of the “rising” sea level, which is melting of the polar ice caps. Both North and South ice caps barely represent 5% of the area of our oceans globally.
Scientists have been concerned that in recent years that the thickness of the ice caps has been as little as four to six feet, with ten to thirteen feet being a “safe” norm.
Somehow, they try to tell us that if the ice caps were to completely melt, that sea levels would rise by over three feet.
Hmmmm....if we’ve seen ice cap thicknesses more than 50% below than the norm in the last 20 years, wouldn’t that mean we should have had an 18” or greater rise in sea level? We’d certainly have know it and felt its effect if it happened....apparently it didn’t!
The sea-level change business can create a lot of concern if the data is selectively used. Rarely, both polar regions experience a simultaneous drop in sea ice, normally the Polar regions response independently of each other, because of very different geography. A quick look at a globe of the earth explains why. The North Pole is surrounded by land masses, with the only notable break being the Norwegian Sea. The South Pole region is surrounded by lots and lots of water.
To attempt to link what is happening to the North and South polar ice caps to a single issue like CO2 emissions is absurd, given the dynamics of the two regions are so different.
At almost any time in history, alarmists can find melting of one or the other polar ice caps. You may have noted that as polar ice in the Artic region has increased in recent years, the alarmists are now focusing on the Antartic region.
Cherry picking at its finest!