intrepid defenders of the faith are unceasing in their efforts, demanding who do you believe: them, or your lying eyes and ears. The latest foray involves recently circulated photos of Sydney Harbor taken some 140 years apart. //
The photographs may reflect “different tidal stages,” Gary Griggs, Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, told Reuters.
An absolute global rate of sea-level rise has been recorded since 1993 by orbiting satellites, Prof Griggs said.
“This rate has averaged 3.42 mm/yr. but over the past decade or so has increased to 4.77mm/yr. over the past 10 years,” he said. //
“Local rates, whether Sydney or San Diego, provide sea level changes relative to land. Where the land is rising or sinking will produce different local rates. So, in Sydney, the land has been rising over the period of tide gauge measurements producing lower than global sea level rise rates,” he (Gary Griggs, Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz) added. //
Beemer4
6 hours ago
The Spanish built a fort in Saint Augustine in the late 1600's. It included a moat which was filled by the ocean. The Atlantic will have to rise many feet to get back to the point water will start filling the moat. Looking at that fort and the one in Key West makes it obvious the oceans are much lower than 200 to 300 years ago. It is almost as if this is a normal cycle. //
Red in Illinois
6 hours ago
“Unsettled” by Steven Koonin is one of the most straight down the middle books on Climate change I’ve read. Even though he was the Under Secretary of Energy during Obama, he is a straight shooter on climate hysteria.
He gives tons of facts with context (usually what alarmists leave out).
Ina nutshell, yes the climate is changing, humans are likely a small contributing factor, natural forces are mostly responsible (as always throughout earths history). Most green energy proposals won’t make much difference except enrich many progressives. //
UpLateAgain Red in Illinois
6 hours ago edited
Yep. Watched climatologist Joe Bastardi the other day talking about storm frequency and severity as influenced by Global Warming. He's really a climate historian as much as a meteorologist and climatologist, and according to him the storm cycles in the US in the early 30s were roughly 28 times more frequent and intense than last year. He doesn't deny mankind is having an influence on climate, but essentially says it is so minuscule as to not really warrant consideration.
