The New Hampshire Coastal Adaptation Workgroup is a coalition of trough-feeding universities, the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, and other interested environmental parties that have collected a reported $5 million in grants, a chunk of them from their biggest government sponsor, NOAA. They claim a long list of priorities which seem reasonably sane on the surface until you grasp the underlying motivation.
It’s our fault, and if we don’t do something, we’ll be swallowed by the sea.
We have seen intense Nor’easters like Winter Storms Juno in 2015 and Nemo in 2013, the October 2011 Snowstorm, and others that have had large and lasting impacts on our communities. These types of storms will have even greater impacts with projected sea level rise and an increase in the frequency and severity of extreme rain events will lead to more floods. While some additional climate change-related impacts are now unavoidable due to past emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases (and the long lifetime of these gases in the atmosphere), the amount of future climate change and the extent of damaging impacts will depend on the amount of greenhouse gases that continue to accumulate in the atmosphere. As a result, efforts to reduce emissions or remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will not only reduce the amount and speed of climate change but will also reduce the amount of adaptation needed. Although the Commission’s mission and report are focused on adaptation, we recognize that efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation are intrinsically linked, and therefore support continued action to reduce the drivers of climate change in New Hampshire, including implementation of the New Hampshire Climate Action Plan.
Be sure to check out the scary picture of the picnic table up to its seats in water. A picture that must be hard to come by during the man-made drought we just endured for about 18 months–an event dwarfed by almost every New Hampshire drought that preceded it going back to 1895 and before it was your fault. They must have shot that during the years of record rainfall, once the drunks who were riding it fell off, during which sea level didn’t deviate a bit from its centuries-long interglacial rise of 1.76mm per year.
But there’s that picnic table, right there on page eight of the Coastal Risk Hazard Report.
Check out the whos-who membership of the NH Coastal Risk Hazard Commission (created thanks to SB 188 -2013) sponsored by David ‘Rising’ Watters, and a host of other luminous progressive minds from both parties.
So?
This is nothing more than another well-funded climate cult front group using climate cult legislation to ape climate cult narratives (in official looking reports) to pimp the tired dogma of a progressive agenda obsessed with advancing socialist-style central planning. It’s nothing more than soft-selling fear to the public with the idea that the government and proper-thinking experts can save us from whatever it is if you will just part with enough of your property and shut the hell up.
And this is forever. There is no cure for the doom only delays, new calculations, adjustments, more research, new models, and more proselytizing of future generations to anesthetize them to the life-long and ever-expanding plunder by the government.
Once you accept the ‘danger’ they have concocted, it never goes away. They never fix it. No amount of redistributed wealth from the productive to the unproductive will ever end the threat that you represent to the planet.
The New Hampshire Coastal Adaptation Workgroup is the same old whore in a new dress. Well funded with tax dollars from Federal agencies. And ready to push the unrefutable hypothesis of man-made global warming (and the latest freighting installment ) anyway they can until you accept it or die.
They’re good either way.
FYI- If you’re not familiar with the NH Climate Action Plan (pdf), New Hampshire Coastal Adaptation Workgroup partner, NHDES has it all here for your “enjoyment.”
