An Inconvenient Deception: How Al Gore Distorts Climate Science and Energy Policy by Roy Spencer

Author:Roy Spencer [Spencer, Roy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

There are multi-decadal variations, but from examination of the data there is no obvious evidence that the recent rise is any different from what it was before 1940, which is the earliest that humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions could have had any substantial effect.

In AIS, Al Gore visits Miami Beach during a street flooding event. It’s a sunny day with little wind, so we know the event is not due to a storm. Street flooding in Miami and Miami Beach occurs during high tides called “king tides,” due to the alignment of the Earth, sun, and moon. For decades they have been getting worse in low-lying areas of Miami Beach where buildings were built on reclaimed swampland. Skyscrapers have existed there for up to 90 years. Clearly, sea level has been rising naturally there for over 100 years, presenting a problem that probably no one was concerned about at the time.

But sea level rise in Miami Beach has actually been even worse than the global-average situation shown above. A study of the area published in 2017 entitled The Contribution of Land Subsidence to the Increasing Coastal Flooding Hazard in Miami Beach, by researchers in Italy and the University of Miami using satellite radar interferometry, revealed that the land there is actually sinking at a rate of up to 3 mm/yr (about 1 inch per decade). That almost exactly matches the rate of global sea level rise, making the effect of sea level rise (which is mostly natural) twice as bad in Miami Beach.

So, here we have Al Gore once again blaming a flooding problem on global warming, when the real proximate cause is clearly dominated by (1) natural sea level rise that has been occurring for over 150 years, combined with (2) gradual sinking of unstable land.

Has global warming made the problem worse? Maybe somewhat … who knows? But it’s clear that the low-lying portions of Miami and Miami Beach would have to deal with rising sea levels with or without human-caused global warming.

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