“The
urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to
rule.” —H. L. Mencken
Over
70 plus years, I haven’t seen any marked sea level rise anywhere. Mira Mar
Beach, Padaro Lane, Santa Claus Lane, Redondo, Hermosa, Santa Monica, Malibu, Miami,
Fort Lauderdale; Obama’s new $15 million ocean view in Martha’s Vineyard;
Venice, Italy (In November 1966 a huge storm raised Venice’s water level to
more than six feet above the norm per Rick Steves), and The Maldives (been
shrinking and growing for eons). All still there, right? All beachfront
property selling for millions of dollars, right? Sure, there are occasional
freak (King) tides, powerful storms, and big waves that damage and destroy
property, but that’s been going on since folks chose to park next to the ocean.
I
could elaborate on Milankovitch cycles, Vostok Ice Cores, terrestrial
subsidence, 1970’s Ice Age Scare, government data tampering, corrupt search
algorithms, journalistic bias and fraud, politics and money; hottest, coldest,
wettest, driest weather, historical articles putting the lie to climate change,
etc., but I’ll spare us all the trouble.