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In HomeAboutContact Et Tu, Virginia? Again with the Sea Level Rise
By Scott Huler | June 12, 2012 |  40 Share  Email  Print


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At the risk of becoming Plugged-In’s “Those crazies are at it again” correspondent, I would like to bring your attention to two noteworthy developments regarding sea level and politics, and then I hope to wash my hands of the topic — with higher sea levels making hand-washing especially convenient, of course.

LETS UNDERSTAND TEH WHOLE CYCLKE FIRST.


In case you're interested in actual data. In case.
The first concerns the Commonwealth of Virginia, which – thanks, neighbors! – is taking a bit of the heat off North Carolina’s legislature. In Virginia, as in North Carolina, reasonable lawmakers concerned about changing climate and sea levels commissioned a study. And like in North Carolina, less-reasonable types in the legislature couldn’t stand the idea of addressing things like “sea level rise,” which this piece from the Virginian-Pilot says are considered “liberal code words.” So in order to pass through the legislature the study addressed “recurrent flooding” instead.

Dumb enough, and at least the Virginian legislators didn’t try to legislate the scientific methods as their counterparts in NC had. (...)BIll sponsor Chris Stolle called “sea level rise” “a left-wing term,” after all. But they’re not liberal code words: they’re scientific terms. The Virginian-Pilot should have noted this. More, the Virginian-Pilot called the “recurrent flooding” term the legislators used a “more politically neutral phrase,” which is wrong twice.

In the first place, “recurrent flooding” is to “sea level rise” as “repeated breath holding” is to “drowning.” One is local and manageable; the other is systemic and catastrophic; pretending they’re the same is politics of a high order. More important, “recurrent flooding” is not a more politically neutral phrase. “Sea-level rise” is utterly politically neutral, because it is scientific, not political. It involves data and science, not politics and manipulation. “Recurrent flooding” on the other hand is a completely political phrase because it tries to soft-pedal reality. By buying into the belief that the very phrase “sea level rise” is somehow political, the Virginian-Pilot helps anti-science forces politicize even scientific language, to say nothing of science itself. Please insert your own “Yes, Virginia, …” joke here; at Plugged In we’re just too tired.

If people begin claiming the sky is green (just wait), saying the sky is blue is not political: it’s rational. Wearily agreeing to call the sky “blue according to some scientists” isn’t less-political. It’s suicide. So is this language.

Considering which, thank goodness for the North Carolina Coastal Federation, which is running a “Sea No Evil” contest on its Facebook page asking for suggestions for things besides the scientific modeling of sea level rise that the North Carolina legislature could render illegal. The answers are getting good: Rebecca Snider suggests banning medical tests, allowing diagnosis only on the basis of family history; Peter Walz suggests banning meteorological forecasting of record highs or lows, since there’s no historical record of those beforehand. The Federation hopes to eventually get a rational legislator to propose the best suggestions as amendments to the slightly less overtly crazy sea level rise bill when the NC Senate votes on it.

It’s nice to hear reasonable voices. Add yours to the chorus.

 About the Author: A writer who commonly explores science, culture, and the relationship between the two. Follow on Twitter @huler.
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AND LETS GET THIS ONE RIGHT ( BELOW EXCERPTS FROM BLOG):

"Bah, we all know the ocean is draining. Why, just this morning it fell almost 3 feet between 2AM and 8AM on the NC coast. Based on a completely linear extrapolation from this historical data from after 1900, we can expect the ocean to be completely drained by 2026! Fight the real scourge of Global Draining – http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=13192"

AUTHOR DID NOT TELL US YET WHERE HIS NALYSES IS GOING. I AM QUESTIONING TEHSE:

1. WATER FALL MEANS CLENER AND COOLER AIR; IN TROPICAL FOREST WHERE EVAPORATION IS HIGHT ALSO; IN MY MIND MORE WATER - LESS HIT. I AM TO CROOS THESE WITH GEORGAPHICAL REGIONS TO BE SURE THAT THERE ARE NO SELF PROPELLERS THAT DO OPOSITE ( If that is possible - i do not know of hand; I have to study these)

2. Costal damage of extreme proportion if water making, water drop, amnd hitting the air to drawth point were to be practiced. i THINK THAT OFFENDERS THAT LANDED AT MY AREA WITH GRAMND IDEA OF CONTROL,CAUSE THAT BY PUSHING THE CLIMATE MAPPING TO FAR ( INCLUDING DURING IRENE ATTACK). DO WE EVEN NEED TO TO EXTREME WHEN NO INTERVENTION IN THE NATURE. ANSWERS FROM MOST CONSCENCES NASAS THAT SEE OUR EARTH FROM THE SKTY AND OBSRVE MORE LARGE CLIMATIC EVENTS IS ALWAYS: 'NO'.

3. wATER IS MADE IN THE NATURE THAT CREATES MORNING MOSTURE EVERY DAY. WE SEEM TO BE BLIND ( WE DEMODNTRATE WATER MAKING ALMOST EVERY DAY AS THIS IS PERFECT AND EASIER WAY TO CLEN AIR FROM THE CO2 AND GREEN HOUSE NITRO CONTAMINAT -  DEVICE THAT  GETS THE LIGT INTO THE DROPESOF WATER AND THAN BIND THE IMPURITIES CONNECT9NG THEN AT THE GROUD LEVER IS CALLED "ROBI" IT CONTANT OF PLASTIC BATTER ( SEEMS TO BREAK THE LIGHT BETTER THEN THE GLAS) AND DROPPING IS ON SMALL SLANT ONE BY ONE; WHEN WE LOOK AT THE GROUD PUDLE THE AMOUNT OF WATER DROPPED FROM THE BUTTLE DISAGREES WITH HOW MUCH IS ON THE GROUND B/C IT IS MADE THERE USING THE SUN LIGHT AND 'GREEHOIUSE GAS')
ALL GETS CELAN IN QUETE IN THE AIR AS THE DIRTY SATELITES ARE ARRESTED THAT WAY IN THET MINI BIO CENTER; SOME THAT ARE NEAT LIKE THAT NATURE MADE OR HUMAN MADE WORK NOW IN BURLINGTON AND MERCERVILLE - THESELVES - THE WATER DROPPING LIKE THAT GETS AUTOMATIZED; TRE CAN DROW NECESSARY IONS FROM THE GROUD AND MAKE JUCE OUT OF IAND RELESE FROM THE BRACCH JON POINT CHALLENGING OUT WIT ON CLIMATE CONTROL LIKE THAT; MOREOVER ONE TAHT I REFERE TOO IS ACTIVE AT NIGHT AS IT DROWS FROM THE LIGHT HOUSE PERHAPS FOR MANY YEARS)


AT COPENHAGEN CONVENTION THE SURE THING THAT CONTROLS  CLIMATE WAS SAID IS THE RAIN FOREST; WHAT I DESCRIBE ABOVE IS A PRECURSOR OF RAIN FORST; IF PLACE HAS FEW TREES DROWING THE SUN LIGHT BY THE DROPS OF WATER WILL START VINES' GROWTH AND COLOR BIRDS AND THAT WHAT IT IS TO BE KNOWN AS 'GOOD ENOUGH CONTROLLER';
 OR MORE - IT IS BEST WHAT WE BE DOING ( TRIED OUT ON ROOFS IN MANHATTAN; ON GREEN VERTICAL WALS AND BUILDING AND VERTICAL VEGETABLE FARMS' ALL TRAPING CO2 GOOD ENOUGH ALREADY.

4. WE NEED THE BIG PICTURE WITH THE PROPER ANALYSES OF THE WATER CYCLE AS INTERCEEDS WITH THESE SOUGHT AFTER CO2 AND GREENHOUSE GAS. HAS FAR DO WE HAVE TO GO?