US national public
radio stations
are leftist biased.
They will broadcast
any climate alarmist
prediction that is
bad news -- no
questions asked.
San Francisco is
much more vulnerable
to an earthquake
than sea level rise.
In one recent
NPR "story",
the listeners heard:
“Sea level
in San Francisco
is expected to rise
by 7 to 10 feet
by 2100”.
(Source:
WAMC Northeast Public
Radio out of Albany, NY,
in early August 2019.)
A 7 to 10 foot rise
is almost double
the UN's IPCC
worst-case
scenario,
which was
already
nonsense.
Extrapolating the
current trend
adds up to less
than +7 inches by 2100,
(calculations later)
US tide gauges in use
for over 100 years reflect
no acceleration of sea level
rise that could be blamed
on CO2 levels
(global warming).
Global sea level rise
has been in the 6 to 9
inches a century range,
not 7 to 10 feet.
San Francisco Bay
has had a long term,
steady sea level rise
of about 6 inches
a century.
Snay et al. (2007)
examined
the Vertical
Land Movement
at Continuously
Operating
GPS Stations.
For San Francisco,
the tide gauges show
+2.13 mm/year in
relative sea level rise.
But that
"sea level rise"
includes sinking of
the land that
the tide gauges
are mounted on --
sinking -0.83 mm/year.
If you subtract
downward land
movement (-0.83mm)
from the +2.13mm/year
relative rise from the tide
tide gauges, the actual
(absolute) sea level rise
is only +1.3mm per year.
SAN FRANCISCO
ABSOLUTE
SEA LEVEL RISE:
at +1.3mm/year
through 2100
would be 81 years
x +1.3mm/year
= +105.3mm total
105.3mm total,
at 25.4mm per inch,
would be +4.14 inches.
+ SAN FRANCISCO
LAND SINKING:
at -0.83mm/year
through 2100
would be 81 years
x -0.83mm/year
= -67.2mm total
67.2mm total,
at 25.4mm per inch,
would be -2.65 inches.
= SAN FRANCISCO
RELATIVE SEA LEVEL RISE:
Absolute sea level rise
of +4.14 inches by 2100,
plus land sinking -2.65 inches,
by 2100, adds up
to +6.79 inches
of relative sea level rise
for San Francisco,
assuming current
trends continue.
Less than 7 inches !
Not 7 to 10 feet !
The Bottom Line:
Leftists will say anything
they want to say about
the future climate
to scare people.
No other leftists will
doubt their claims,
at least not in public.
The future climate
will be claimed to be
completely different
than the past climate.
The predictions
will be wrong.
But the people
who made them
will be long gone.
NPR has broadcast
false news stories
on the climate
for decades !
Gullible fools believe
the always scary
climate predictions,
and vote for
leftist politicians,
who then try to control
almost every aspect
of people's lives.
I'm proud to say that
I'm not one of them !