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I was watching our local news here in Charleston, SC yesterday and the new mayor John Tecklenburg was giving a speech. Mr. Tecklenburg was elected last year as our pundit Joe Riley retired. Joe had been our mayor as long as I've been around, and party lines withstanding, he was a really good mayor.
So, on to his replacement. The speech was given at our Charleston Aquarium downtown and it was on the impacts of global warming.
I don't have a transcript of the speech but the gist of it was that in the next 10 YEARS, that Charleston and coastal SC's water table is going to rise by 2 FEET. I'm wondering... If there's any scientists out there that study global warming and sea-level rises, is this just bull crap crazy speech or is there any shred of evidence that our sea level is going to rise 2 feet in the next ten years. If that's so, I imagine that basically the Eastern Seaboard will be drowned up to the Apalachian Mountains.
So, if you study these things, please chime in before I write this guy a letter asking him to explain himself.
He's out of his mind. The IPCC Report states sea levels are projected to rise between 1.0 mm to 2.0 mm per year and the data that this report pulls from states there is a large margin of error.
The most likely sea rise level by 2100 is between 80cm and 1 metre so two feet in ten years? Impossible and ridiculous.
I was watching our local news here in Charleston, SC yesterday and the new mayor John Tecklenburg was giving a speech. Mr. Tecklenburg was elected last year as our pundit Joe Riley retired. Joe had been our mayor as long as I've been around, and party lines withstanding, he was a really good mayor.
So, on to his replacement. The speech was given at our Charleston Aquarium downtown and it was on the impacts of global warming.
I don't have a transcript of the speech but the gist of it was that in the next 10 YEARS, that Charleston and coastal SC's water table is going to rise by 2 FEET. I'm wondering... If there's any scientists out there that study global warming and sea-level rises, is this just bull crap crazy speech or is there any shred of evidence that our sea level is going to rise 2 feet in the next ten years. If that's so, I imagine that basically the Eastern Seaboard will be drowned up to the Apalachian Mountains.
So, if you study these things, please chime in before I write this guy a letter asking him to explain himself.
FYI: Elevation changes are a lot larger than two feet. That's like a hill up to your waist.
The mayor is an agent of the government. Of course it's true!
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