Tyrion Lannister: I believe what a few honest men tell me they've seen, my queen, rather than what "everybody knows".
http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/earth-science/satellite-data-shows-largest-co2-increase-earth-tropics/
http://www.climatedepot.com/2017/07/26/sea-levels-are-falling-nasa-data-sea-levels-fell-in-2016-from-jan-2016-to-march-2017/
You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried. We just learned that rainforests produce more CO2 than they consume, and are the largest source of atmospheric carbon. And sea levels are
falling, not rising.
But don’t worry – the government is NOT backing own from it's predictions that NYC will soon be underwater. They’re too deeply invested in the narrative to back down.
Their credibility is at stake. They'll probably just extend the doomsday date another couple of decades, like those psychic apocalyptics do to keep book sales strong.
Stop laughing. I’m trying to be serious here. The fact that the government believes it HAS credibility to protect is the perhaps the biggest confirmation of government insanity that anyone could muster. This would be the same government which has produced: a $20 trillion federal debt; an opiod crisis; turned out schools into violent gang infested dropout mills; and hasn’t won a war in like forever.
You can spend an hour at NASA’s official “sea level” website, and not find any reference to falling sea levels as I recently did. There’s not a single chart showing it. To get the answer, wonks had to deconstruct the raw data (see link above).
I suppose the results would be similar if you went to the DOE (department of education) website, you’d never realize that 1/3 of all students never complete high school. Half drop out, if they were unlucky enough to be born in a deep blue city; the kind where the police no longer respond to 911 calls unless it involves an “officer down”.
If you visit the Pentagon website, you wouldn’t find out that we have more than 2,500 military bases, probably half of them redundant.
The government does disclose – it is required to – that the national debt is $20 trillion. However, it doesn’t mention that’s $200,000 for each of america’s 100 million families – because it doesn’t have to. And there is no pretence anywhere that there is a plan to fix this though better government policy.
At this point in my top post rants, I usually insert the phrase “back to (top post subject)”. And bait whichever PJ purveyor of misleading official government data to prove his thesis, or (more responsibly) to take a more bipartisan and objective approach; to avoid continuing to appear like one of the pathetic “party members” in 1984. My approach never works, though.
In response to the current findings, I’m certainly NOT going to propose clear cutting rain forests. Or that put our 401K balances into property insurance company stock on the theory that falling sea levels will result in less coastal damage. People will immediately build on any spit of sand which emerges – see photo below of Ocean City Maryland which wasn’t even a place 200 years ago, until a hurricane CREATED it.
Rather, I’m going to do what I always do, and what I believe is right: remind readers that if we see politicians, government payroll scientists, corporations, or foreign dictators telling us some crisis is unavoidable UNLESS we do as they say, we should exercise extreme skepticism, and investigate more deeply.
My touchstone: Live frugally and put something away for the future in case the “safety nets” get shredded. Stay sober. Read. A lot – from a variety of sources. Don’t hate the guy next door because he belongs to a different church, political party or warehouse shopping club than you do.
And don’t count on an eternal reward after death. The only heaven we’ll ever know is likely the one we create here and now, during our lifetimes.
"Don't worry. We have federal flood insurance, honey. And besides, 50 feet of sand has been enough to protect this building from hurricanes ever since it was built . . . "
