Posted on 01/22/2024 2:15:31 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
New York City sea levels could rise more than a foot by the 2030s, according to projections presented by a city climate panel.
The nation’s largest city will see as much as 10 percent more precipitation and temperature increases of 2 degrees to 4.7 degrees, the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) said at a presentation at the Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast. The presentation’s contents were first reported by The City.
Further into the century, “we can’t rule out” precipitation increases as high as 30 percent, said NPCC member Radley Horton, a climate professor at Columbia University, although he added that projecting precise precipitation increases “is not a strength of climate models.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Like at an auction- “I have 12 inches, do we have 15 inches?”
This may be the ridiculous claim yet. the Atlantic ocean is going to raise a foot in a year span. phew that is weapon’s grade BS.
Notwithstanding his 19-page resume, Professor Horton’s never going to get tenure at this rate, unless he’s prepared to state his crap speculation in more emphatic and dire terms. This is the most mealy-mouthed doom and gloom I’ve heard from these jokers in memory
https://www.radleyhorton.com/uploads/5/4/2/9/54298559/horton_cv.pdf
I am not a ‘climate scientist’, but how does increased rainfall in NYC cause seal levels to rise?
There was a summit meeting in Cornwall, England in 2021. A photo showed the coast line. A photo taken from the same spot in 1922 showed the high tide line in the same spot. And then there’s the Broomway in England. A legal right-of-way covered by the high tide twice a day as it has been for at least the last 600 years.
So yes, sea level could rise a foot...or it could not.
More climate soothsaying from incompetent quacks.
“10 percent more precipitation and temperature increases of 2 degrees”
Farmers are ecstatic. Consumers look forward to more affordable food.
Only Algore is unhappy about this.
How many times have we heard this garbage?
What a crock of ....
I’ve heard this crap for a decade now.
Is there a dam somewhere that is breaking? Because that is the only way sea levels are going to rise that fast. This stuff doesn’t happen at that rate unless Noah is building an ark.
I hope NY City has stockpiled enough schwimmflugels (floaties) for the entire population of the city.
They could. But they won't.
-PJ
US Geologic Survey is quite clear that the whole East Coast including NYC is sinking at a rate of several millimeters per year. NOAA pays fleeting lip service to this crucial fact but runs roughshod over it by yammering about melting ice caps and warm water swelling.
“While doing research 12 or 13 years ago, I met Jim Hansen, the scientist who in 1988 predicted the greenhouse effect before Congress. I went over to the window with him and looked out on Broadway in New York City and said, “If what you’re saying about the greenhouse effect is true, is anything going to look different down there in 20 years?” He looked for a while and was quiet and didn’t say anything for a couple seconds. Then he said, “Well, there will be more traffic.” I, of course, didn’t think he heard the question right. Then he explained, “The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change.” Then he said, “There will be more police cars.” Why? “Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.”
They are SUCH LIARS.
NYC could use a good flushing.
Didn’t they SCREAM this at us - THREE decades ago???
When doom and gloom predictions from experts fail completely, they should be jailed at a minimum. Some should be executed.
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