Sans Proof, Hysterical Politico Warns of Major Sea Level Rise by 2050

Barack Obama, former President! You may not know this, but both your Martha’s Vineyard island house and your Oahu beachfront property are at risk of flooding. You will lose the million dollars that you have spent on them both.

That’s Zack Coleman, who writes about climate change. Politico. However, the good news for Obama is that Coleman offers zero proof to back up his apocalyptic assertion on Monday in “Seas could rise up to a foot by 2050, posing ‘a clear and present risk’ to U.S.” 

Although that headline doesn’t sound all that certain with that “could” bit, the first sentence of Coleman’s article shifts to total certainty: “Sea levels along U.S. coasts will rise by as much as a foot in the next 30 years as climate change accelerates, leading to a ‘dramatic increase’ in millions of Americans’ exposure to flooding, scientists warned in a federal report published Tuesday.”

Coleman’s other warning to Obama is devoid any real data.

According to the report, tens or millions of Americans live in regions at high risk for coastal flooding. More people move to these areas every year. The report states that this combined with the rising sea level and other climate effects will make it more difficult for them to move and create flooding risks in key infrastructure sectors like transportation and energy.

Charleston, S.C. and West Palm Beach (Fla.) are most likely to see an increase in high-tide flooding due to rising sea levels. However, Camden, N.J. is more vulnerable to flooding that may overwhelm their sewers.

“This is a global wake-up call and gives Americans the information needed to act now to best position ourselves for the future,” NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said in a statement.

SHOW ME THE DATA

According to the federal government, storm surge and high tide heights are expected to increase. This will cause flooding and erosion, and could lead further inland.

The report highlighted near-term sealevel trajectories, as understanding the future sea level could help inform infrastructure and planning decisions for cities and towns. It backed up a conclusion of the last such federal sea level study, that the increase would accelerate after 2050, but it scrapped that 2017 report’s most extreme projection of 2.5 meters of sea level rise by 2100 because “uncertain physical processes” such as ice sheet loss are now seen as less plausible in the coming decades than they were when that report was published.

Or could it be that the projection of an 8 foot rise in sea level by 2100 made that federal sea level study a worthy target of mockery so they modified it to down to just a foot rise by 2050? You can read the rest of this article with the Nostradamus effect. PoliticoAlert for sea-level rise flooding before 2050