While traveling last week I chanced to hear a radio
program out of Miami that discussed the critical, life threatening subject of
the national movement of beach sand and the fact that Florida is running out of
sand and may have to buy sand from the Bahamas in the near future in order to
keep Florida’s beaches beautiful. I sat on the edge of my seat in anticipation,
and was eventually rewarded with the announcement of the blame for this
most-serious subject. The culprit was, of course, climate change/global warming.
One will recall Obama claiming at his inauguration ceremony
that his administration would halt the (alleged) warming that has caused the oceans
to rise, and at one point he specified Miami as being especially threatened by
rising sea water. One of the “scientific”
officials on the Miami radio program I listened to assured the listening
audience that, even though it “could not be measured”, the ocean is indeed
rising, and said that Miami is frequently experiencing high ocean levels. So
Miami is experiencing high ocean levels but Fort Lauderdale and Key West aren’t?
How do high ocean levels become so selective?
If melting icebergs were causing the ocean levels to rise, the entire coastal
area of Florida would be inundated. But only Miami is impacted?
And if it can’t be measured, how can rising water be
proven to be happening? Where is the
evidence? Anyone who has visited a coastal area knows that during periods of
storms and high winds, the water will rise, and then go back to normal after
the winds have died down. So my question to proponents of a rising sea caused
by global warming is: what streets in Miami have salt water running in them?
Salt water in the streets of Miami or Manhattan or
Laguna Beach would be a warmer’s wet dream and they’d be screaming this evidence
of their contention of warming from every roof top. But have you heard news
reports of any such event happening? No! Are there any pictures showing flooded
neighborhoods in Miami, especially at times when no bad weather could be the temporary
cause? No! Because it’s not happening.
But one should not be surprised by these off-hand
claims of warming/change. After all when it gets cold, they blame warming; when
it’s hot, they blame warming; if there’s a tornado, they blame warming; if
there’s a hurricane, they blame warming; record cold weather in Florida, they
blame warming; record show-fall in Hawaii, they blame warming. Can one see a
trend here?
