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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Silly man. He challenged King Leonides.
“WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE? ME, OR YOUR LYING EYES?!”
The global warming message doesn’t go over so well with people that have knowledge. It is the “city folk”, removed from things like polar bears that believe this tripe, hook, line and sinker.
Climate change...a religion for the crafty to fleece the ignorant.
Denier! Blasphemy!
For the record....... Tangier is a great place to visit and to eat. There is a place that serves family style meals that are superb.
Also of interest ot soft shell crap lovers, Tangier has extensive facilities for the farming of soft shell crabs.
What does he know? He only works on the ocean.
Especially compared to Al Gore. He actually took a science class.
And got a D.
>>Tangier Island has lost 66 percent of its land to erosion since 1850.<<
Steam engines, no doubt.
but sea level changes every Tide ,D’oh
Oh oh. A witness.
Perfect definition of Algore
Oh no!...... soft shell crab lovers.
As usual, Gorebal Warning is Kr@p.
Speak truth to power....
Yes, in some areas, land may be rising even more, or subsiding, depending on what is happening in the earth below it.
I find it interesting that geography is often defined by the water level at the shore. Take away the water and the topography changes.
Or by the action of waves. Take a look at the new “island” off of OBX this year.
The oceans rise a foot when Al Goes swimming.
Gore is convinced his religion is right, just like Hansen an others were convinced of global cooling before they chose global warming for their religion. Facts don’t matter. Nowhere that I am aware of has rising oceans. The NYC waterfront is where it has always been. Islands? Flooding? Maybe they are sinking? Maybe just normal coastal erosion? Have waters really risen, Earth now has more water?!
Wednesday is fun at FR
Fish swimming in the streets.....
Can you picture it.....
algore is slick... near the end of the clip he suggests in his question that the island is succombing to rising sea levels...
subliminal messaging
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