Posted on 08/02/2017 5:53:03 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Al Gore was challenged on climate science Tuesday night when the mayor of Tangier Island, a community threatened by coastal erosion, told the environmentalist film producer he hadn’t seen the sea level change since he began his first career as a commercial crabber in 1970.
Gore was taking questions from the audience on a CNN town hall with Anderson Cooper when the fisherman and Tangier Island mayor James Eskridge refuted Gore’s assertion that rising sea levels were endangering coastal communities.
“I’m a commercial crabber and I’ve been working the Chesapeake Bay for 50+ years. I have a crab house business out on the water and the water level is the same as it was when the place was built in 1970,” Eskridge said. “I’m not a scientist, but I am a keen observer and if sea level rises are occurring, why am I not seeing signs of it?”
Eskridge went on to say that erosion was slowly eating away at the island, but it was a natural force caused by “wave action [and] storms.”
“Have [the storms] increased any?” Gore asked.
“Not really,” Tangier’s mayor responded.
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I've changed my mind. Now I think that he's a very shrewd con man who used his failed presidential campaign to build a sucker list, which he's since milked to become very seriously rich.
Likely richer than if he'd actually been president, though with less attendant power.
AL-G would shut down all commercial fishing if he could.
Whatever you do, Al Gore, don’t mess with Chesapeake Bay Watermen! They are a world unto themselves. You have no power in their realm.
“AL-G would shut down all commercial fishing if he could.”
Al gore would NOT do that!!
Everyone knows he would put a MANDATORY TAX on the fisherman!
Just like this from 1990-
“In the name of making rich people bear their share of balancing the Federal budget, Congress last fall enacted a luxury tax on new boats. The result has been a disaster for the United States boat-building industry: more than 20,000 people out of work, bankruptcies among boat yards and economic depression in communities that depend upon boat building. “
that TAX did NOT stop Congress critters from getting their boats!
Climate change causes climate change denial.
>>Tangier Island has lost 66 percent of its land to erosion since 1850.<<
I normally give credit to the army corp for screwing up the water flow, more than anything else.
Over the decades, I haven’t noticed water level rise in any tidal area, but have noticed nearby surface land erosion.
Gore's thought: "Because you're just a stupid hick who didn't go to any of the Ivy League schools".
BTW, I lived on the Florida coast for 32 years and EVERY time I went to the beach, it was ALWAYS in the same damn location.
Yep, this is too funny.
Who do we believe? Al Gore, or somebody who actually works on the water, who has been there for decades, and can tell us what he’s observed on his island??
>> algore is slick <<
Yep, and I guess that characteristic makes a “Chakra Release” more satisfying.
Ches Bay ßump
Coastal sedimentary subsidence is usually what your seeing wherever people are citing sea level rise.
June 1988 I occasionally fish at slack high tide on the same rock at the mouth of the Thames in New London, CT. The moon tides changes things up but at full moon (or close) high slack tide the rock is exactly exposed the same water level as today. Marks on my favorite rock where the big mica deposit is doesn’t change.
In engineering school, we were required to take a course called “Experimental Methods” that taught us all about data collection and error analysis. How to draw inferences from data about accuracy and precision. It seems that the voices of global warming theory skipped this course.
Let me ask a couple of simple questions to illustrate:
1. What is the average temperature range at your home on a given day? Where I live, it is about 20F. For the last few nights, it has been in the mid-60s and during the days it has been in the mid-80s.
2. What is the average tidal change during the course of a day at the beach? In the coast near me, the low tide this month will average about 0 ft and the high tide about 2.5 ft. So, the tides range about 30”.
The global warming folks would have us get all excited about their computer model projections on temperature and sea levels. They are simply ignorant.
What we consider a normal temperature change during a SINGLE day is ~10X what they fear-monger us with their projections for 100 years from now.
What they fear monger us with on sea levels is an 8ft rise - or 3X what we normally see in a given day. That would be significant - but as illustrated in this story, the real data to support this is non-existent.
It’s just all a load of horse crap. I spent 30 years of my career writing software. I can tell you that 90% of the people who write software are either bad at it, don’t understand the problem that they are capturing, or BOTH!
Show me the hard science and the evidentiary data with requisite error analysis. Until then, it is simply a hypothesis that they have embedded in some bad computer models.
It is a shame the poor mayor will be committee suicide later this week.
But.. but the fish are swimming in the roads.. reeeee!
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