Sinking Cities and the Alarmist's Sinking Feeling
I link the CNN story, “New York City is sinking due to its million-plus buildings, study says.” To ensure that this detail does not detract from the alarmists’ “ocean’s rise scare” the story claims that the sea level around New York City, “has been rising more than twice as fast as the global rate” and could conceivably rise “between 8 inches and 30 inches by 2050”. NASA claims that oceans are rising at 0.13 inches (3.4 millimeters) per year – so in the 27 years to 2050, at that rate sea level rise in the Big Apple will be 3.51 inches.
Naturally, only ice that melts on land can cause ocean rise - Melting ice in water or the oceans does not cause the water level to elevate. Further, the ocean’s rise has been synchronized to the end of the little ice age (1850) and not the beginning of the industrial revolution and the use of fossil fuels. Greenland and both poles and global temperatures, in recent years, have not been helping out the climate alarmists.
The story goes on to say, “What’s more, scientists expect more frequent and extreme rainfall events such as nor’easters and hurricanes due to the human-fueled climate crisis.” Perhaps these scientists erroneously believe in “new” water. The fact is the water that is on the earth, evaporated water in the atmosphere, water in the ground, as well as snow and ice is all the water that the earth has ever had and, further, will ever have. There is no such thing as “new” water. Where then, would be the subsequent droughts?
Naturally, this well-funded research talks about hurricanes Sandy and Ida, because of their recent havoc, but New York City is prone to numerous hurricanes as clearly evidenced by the Wikipedia list I link here.
A previous study uncovered that 44 of 48 of the most populous coastal cities are in fact sinking and that this descent is faster than the ocean rise. Thus, depending on how subsidence is measured and where it is measured, is the rise as fast as claimed, or is the drop or declivity of land pushing water levels up and creating a disproportionate and incorrect tabulation, again in favor of the climate campaigners?
This all reminds me of an article I wrote in June of 2019 about the islands of Tuvalu. Tuvalu, located in the South Pacific, is an independent island nation and is a component of the Commonwealth of Nations formerly known as the British Commonwealth. To illustrate how the islands of Tuvalu are sinking due to sea level rise, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres poses in the water just off the main island.
Yet, from the most recent satellite photographs, during the time period from 1971 to 2014, the islands actually grew by 3%. In a research study, lead author Paul Kench of the University of Auckland, New Zealand said, “Satellite and aerial photos showed eight of Tuvalu’s nine atolls and three-quarters of its reef islands increased in size over the last four decades.”
While this is an undeniable fact, published and peer-reviewed, climate terrorists simply continue to lie about it. One has to know how absolutely dishonest and deceitful these people must be. The island nations participate in the charade simply because they are paid a significant climate change reparations fee by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
CNN (The Climate Change Network) and other legacy media are complicit in its fearmongering tactics and fully one-sided efforts. Stories that say, “All is OK in the natural world” just don’t sell.