"Nothing, and I mean nothing, leads so quickly to the loss of all critical faculties as global warming hysteria.
One key claim in the maelstrom of global warming hype is the assertion that sea level will shortly rise and swamp coastal cities.
I would put this claim in the category of total BS.
For more detail than you would ever want to know on that subject, go to this link.
But for today’s purposes, assume that there is something to the claim of a big impending sea level rise.
I live here in Manhattan, specifically Lower Manhattan (the southern part of the island).
If sea level is about to rise and swamp coastal cities, Manhattan looks like ground zero, and Lower Manhattan in particular.
...Belief in anthropogenic global warming and its associated natural disasters like sea level rise is an essential component of Manhattan groupthink.
Therefore, it is clear that our politicians must “do something” about the impending calamity.
But what?
We’re not about to jack up some thousands of buildings by 30 or 50 feet each, even assuming that somebody could figure out how to do that.
Thankfully, our politicians have come up with the answer, namely, the “East Side Coastal Resiliency Project” (ESCRP).
...According to the Villager article at the link, the proposed ESCRP generated quite a bit of controversy in the affected community.
Not that anyone expressed doubt about the premise that the sea is about to rise up from man-made global warming.
Instead, most of the controversy was about losing the park for three plus years, plus the loss of some hundreds of trees that are about to be buried in dirt.
But even if everyone accepted the premise of imminent massive sea level rise, you would think that someone would have asked the next obvious question, which is, how does it help us to raise the grade of three miles of the relevant shoreline while leaving the grade of the other twelve miles the same?
After all, the sea level is the same on the Lower West Side as it is on the Lower East Side..."
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One key claim in the maelstrom of global warming hype is the assertion that sea level will shortly rise and swamp coastal cities.
I would put this claim in the category of total BS.
For more detail than you would ever want to know on that subject, go to this link.
But for today’s purposes, assume that there is something to the claim of a big impending sea level rise.
I live here in Manhattan, specifically Lower Manhattan (the southern part of the island).
If sea level is about to rise and swamp coastal cities, Manhattan looks like ground zero, and Lower Manhattan in particular.
...Belief in anthropogenic global warming and its associated natural disasters like sea level rise is an essential component of Manhattan groupthink.
Therefore, it is clear that our politicians must “do something” about the impending calamity.
But what?
We’re not about to jack up some thousands of buildings by 30 or 50 feet each, even assuming that somebody could figure out how to do that.
Thankfully, our politicians have come up with the answer, namely, the “East Side Coastal Resiliency Project” (ESCRP).
Not that anyone expressed doubt about the premise that the sea is about to rise up from man-made global warming.
Instead, most of the controversy was about losing the park for three plus years, plus the loss of some hundreds of trees that are about to be buried in dirt.
But even if everyone accepted the premise of imminent massive sea level rise, you would think that someone would have asked the next obvious question, which is, how does it help us to raise the grade of three miles of the relevant shoreline while leaving the grade of the other twelve miles the same?
After all, the sea level is the same on the Lower West Side as it is on the Lower East Side..."
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