Last Week, the coordinated media made noise about accelerated sea level rise. That’s nothing new. They do it all the time, though, not as often as the hottest thing ever. Both lack evidence and rigor, neither of which are required to snap coastal elites like a twig.
Related: Sea Level Rise Blamed for Increasing Coastal Property Values Instead of Depressing Them
Hotter than when? Higher than when? The earth has been both hotter and the sea level higher in the absence of humans or any anthropogenic influence. In my geologic neighborhood, the East Coast is sinking. Paying three times as much for heat and twice as much for gas won’t stop the land moving. And how are EVs, which weigh a lot more than traditional transportation, supposed to do anything but make that worse? Isostatic change is never in the press releases, but fears of accelerated rise are, despite past predictions failing to produce the scaremongered result.
But why give up on a good thing?
At Grand Isle, Louisiana, the big red arrow in the Gulf of Mexico, the relative sea level is rising at 9.2 mm per year … while only a short distance away, the green arrow to the right of Grand Isle shows that Pensacola, Florida has a relative sea level rise less than a third of that, 2.7 mm per year.
Why different sea level rise rates? Again, it has nothing to do with the ocean. It’s because Grand Isle is a silty barrier island in the Mississippi Delta, and like all such islands, it’s slowly sinking into the briny blue.
You find differences all over the map. Some locations are seeing seas recede. Do they get to keep their money and drive combustion-engine vehicles without the climate cultists’ side-eye? How do you explain the differences in variables from storms to temperature to sea level while still arguing the problem is global? They can’t explain any of it except to say they believe without a doubt (faith) that we all must repent (whether we believe or not), and their expensive, half-baked penance will fix everything.
There is net-zero evidence that any of that is true, but it is difficult to convince a zealot of anything, especially when it affects their paycheck.
But there’s nothing any of us can do about Sea level rise (or fall). Much like the atmosphere, there are more variables than are accounted for because to consider them would end the scam, and what then?
Some additional reading, if it interests you.
14,600 Years Ago Prehistoric SUV’s Melted Ice Sheets Causing 60 Feet of Sea Level Rise<
Another Atoll Endangered by Sea Level Rise Has More Land Mass than it Had in 1943
And another 720 more …
