Another Enviro-Prediction proves to be poo-poo? - Granite Grok

Another Enviro-Prediction proves to be poo-poo?

Great LakesYeah, I guess that environmental prediction biz is “sustainable” – turn around and there’s yet another growing up.  Good thing too – they seem to be dying as well.  Like this one (emphasis mine):

Great Lakes Go from ‘Climate Change-Induced’ Low Water Levels to Record Highs in 3 Years

Between 2010 and 2013 residents of the states surrounding the Great Lakes were told that climate change was permanently altering their environment and the record low water levels being recorded in the lakes may be the new normal. But now, only three years later, news reports are worried about beach erosion because the lakes have rebounded to record high levels of water.

This week, throughout the Chicago media landscape, as well as in reports in Michigan and Wisconsin, stories about a loss of swimming areas on public beaches are filling airwaves and newspaper pages. Residents and city officials are warning citizens that water levels in Lake Michigan and the other lakes are so high that the shallow swimming areas have been reduced as the water rises. Reports are also express worry over beach erosion and fears that the rising water is a danger to other infrastructure like roads.

In Chicago, DNAInfro.com, for instance, notes that water levels have risen a whopping four feet since 2013 and the new water is “swallowing up beaches.” According to the Army Corps of Engineers, the water has risen 15 inches higher than this time last year and may rise another six inches before the summer heat starts its cycle of evaporation. The Chicago Tribune reports that the northern suburb of Evanston is losing beachfront property. “All our beaches are shrinking,” Evanston parks director Lawrence Hemingway said.

Science is never settled and “consensus” is a bugaboo only of the political set.  Science depends on observations, data, verification – and patience.  Not the hubris that a political agenda brings to the issue.  Again, while in college all I heard from the enviros was that we were all going to die from lots of reasons – including pollution, another Ice Age, famine, ecological collapse (still here 40 years later and way later than most of the predictions and things are actually and observably better).  No, too many people jumped on “It’s drying up” and without considering “what if we’re wrong or if this is just a cycle we just don’t know about?”.

But it is always from one dire crisis to another, isn’t it, and screams of “SOMEONE HAS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT” are heard when they really want more Government takeover in the name of “save the planet”!  Sorry, but the planet will be here well after we have all left this mortal coil.

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