Very early on in the climate saga, the alarmist activists settled on a clear strategy. “Post-normal science,” they dubbed it. Despite its moniker, it has bugger-all to do with science. What it is, is naked political activism. In their own words, it means sacrificing rigorous truth-telling (you know: science) for “policy influence”.
To that end, they endlessly try to scare the pants off the gullible and uninformed. “Offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements,” as pioneering climate alarmist Stephen Schneider put it.
One of their favourite scare stories is that “we’re all gonna drown!” Back in 1988, climate doyen James Hansen was predicting that Manhattan would be flooded under ten feet of water within 40 years. Well, we’re three-quarters of the way there, and New Yorkers haven’t broken out the gumboots yet.
It’s no different in Australia.
In Australia, we mostly live near the sea. All along our coastline there is evidence of sea level fall, yes fall.
Where is the evidence for rising sea levels?
Will you see how much sea levels have risen when you watch the fireworks over the Opera House in Sydney Harbour this New Year’s Eve — or will you see evidence of sea level fall?
Oh, shush, you! This is climate change we’re talking about! We don’ need no stinkin’ evidence!
The best evidence is that global sea level has fallen by at least 2 metres since the the Holocene high stand about 4,000 BC; that is about 6,000 years ago, a time known as the Minoan warm period.
The evidence in rocks and cliff faces all along the Australian east coast is that sea level was about 1m higher in the Roman warm period (year 0), and about 0.5m higher in the Medieval warm period (1,000 AD).
Conversely, it is believed the sea level was lower in the cold periods of 500 AD (Dark Ages) and the Little Ice Age (1,650 AD), maybe both 0.2 — 0.5 metres below today’s level. This last low sea level is particularly important, because it from this base sea levels are perhaps still rising back to average Holocene levels.
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Still, despite the Chicken-Little screeching of the climate alarmists – not to mention the high-handed judgments of globalist UN enforcers – most of the world is stubbornly refusing to drown. Bangladesh, one-time poster-child of we’re-all-gonna-drown, is actually gaining land area. The vast majority of islands are either stable or growing. Well-documented sites around Australia, such as the Fort Denison show no sign of slipping under the waves soon.
Even the Isle of the Dead, in Tasmania, seems not to be the proof of accelerated rising sea levels that it was claimed to be.
But, ignore all that, children. Who are you going to believe? Your lyin’ eyes, or the globalists demanding more of your money?
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