Another Sea-Level Scare Story Drowns Under Scrutiny

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WRITTEN BY STERLING BURNETT AND ANTHONY WATTS ON FEB 9, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS

Another Sea-Level Scare Story Drowns Under Scrutiny

miami coastA recent debate in The Nation claimed Miami should either make plans to evacuate from the Florida coast or become the model of adaptation in response to rapidly rising sea levels from climate change and the refugees that will result from it.

The story is not just false, it is laughably inept. [emphasis, links added]


There is no evidence the United States faces the loss of any major coastal city due to climate change or that climate change has or will create climate refugees.

The Nation published an exchange between Daniel Aldana Cohen and Samantha Schuyler titled “Should We Start Preparing for the Evacuation of Miami?”

https://climatechangedispatch.com/another-sea-level-scare-story-drowns-under-scrutiny/

[catfish1957]

Well doesn't that just wet algore's knickers?

Understand this has pretty much has been static since placed at present location since tri-centenial.

[DB]

Well doesn't that just wet algore's knickers?

Understand this has pretty much has been static since placed at present location since tri-centenial.

Apparently that isn't the location or the actual stone from the era of the Pilgrams.

[catfish1957]

Apparently that isn't the location or the actual stone from the era of the Pilgrams.

Possibly, but the point was that this was where this particular stone was placed in 1920, and there doesn't show to be any discernable rise in sea level.

[Wingnut]

Apparently that isn't the location or the actual stone from the era of the Pilgrams.

Damn Pilgrims.  They took their Plymouth rock and went home.