The title of this article
was borrowed from
a February 2, 1978 article
in The Wall Street Journal.
The article reported
the temperature rise due to
the burning of oil and gas
would result in a:
“sudden deglaciation
of the West Antarctic,
unfreezing enough water
to raise world sea levels
by five meters"
(about 16 feet)
Such a sea-level rise could:
“result in the submergence
of much of Florida, Holland
and other low-lying areas
in the next 50 years.”
That prediction depended on
the worst-case scenarios for:
(1)
Greenhouse gas emissions,
(2)
Global warming, and
(3)
The effect of
global warming
on Antarctica ice.
None of the three
worst case scenarios
happened.
Sea level has
continued to rise
at less than one foot
per century.
To achieve the
predicted 16 feet
of sea level rise
in the next 50 years,
that we were warned of
41 years ago, in the
Wall Street Journal,
the rate of sea level rise
needed to be 200 times
faster than it actually
was since 1978 !
Fears of sea-level rise
are nothing new.
Al Gore’s warned of a
sea-level rise of 20 feet.
The actual measurement
is under one inch per decade,
for over 150 years,
based on tide gauges.
There was no observed
acceleration from
global warming after
the CO2 levels
in the atmosphere
began ramping up
after 1940.
Sea-level rise has been
ongoing for the past
20,000 years, after the
peak glaciation reversed
( Canada had been covered
by ice, along with Chicago
and Detroit )
We hear about Miami Beach,
where sea-level rise has been
worse than the average.
What we don't hear
from the dishonest
mass media is:
The land is sinking there,
at a rate of 3 mm per year
—equal to the sea-level rise—
( so is causing half of the problem ).