Monday's Energy Absurdity: Hey, Remember How Al Gore Said the Maldives Were Gonna Disappear?
Yeah, that was just another lie.

DAVID BLACKMON
APR 08, 2024


Among the dozens of false fright scenarios pushed by Al Gore and other leaders in the climate alarm movement is the prospect of rising sea levels rapidly subsuming islands all across the planet and low-lying coastal cities like Miami Beach.

Specific to Miami Beach, who else remembers when, back in 2017, Al Gore made tons of news by claiming that coastal town was about to be subsumed by the Atlantic when, during a brief visit there, he witnessed sea water flooding some isolated sections of that sand bar island? His alarmist pals in the media were only too happy to cooperate, running with fright stories under glaring headlines touting Gore’s panicked rhetoric.

Of course, it turned out that Gore had simply witnessed a well-known, timeless phenomenon that Miami Beach residents call “Kind Tides”, which happen during times when the earth, sun, and moon are aligned in a way that maximizes the moon’s gravitational pull on the ocean. The city blocks Gore saw being covered by seawater have been being covered with seawater regularly for untold centuries.

Funny thing, though: Pretty much none of the media propaganda outlets who trumpeted Gore’s ignorance made any effort at all to correct their stories, because the narrative is far more important than the truth. Who could’ve foreseen that one, huh?

Not that anything like that inconvenient truth would ever deter Gore from continuing his highly profitable quest to brainwash the public about climate change. There are trillions of dollars at stake in maintaining the fright, after all. In his movies and public statements, Gore has unerringly touted his narrative that global warming would cause rising sea levels - or, more accurately, accelerate the sea level rise that has been happening at a steady pace since the end of the last major ice age more than 10,000 years ago.

He and others make a regular habit of talking specifically about the prospect of Pacific islands like the Maldives being among the first to be inundated in just a few decades. Naturally, that’s not happening, either.

Today brings a story from a group of Chinese scientists who have found that the Maldives and other Pacific islands are not only holding their own against the dreaded rising tides, they’re actually rising themselves. In a paper published in the International Journal of Digital Earth, the researchers found that an “amount of land equivalent to the Isle of Wight has been added to the shorelines of 13,000 islands around the world in just the last 20 years.”

Oh.

Here’s an excerpt from the story reported by Net Zero Watch this morning:

This fascinating fact of a 369.67 square kilometer increase has recently been discovered by a group of Chinese scientists analyzing both surface and satellite records. Overall, land was lost during the 1990s, but the scientists found that in the study period of three decades to 2020, there was a net increase of 157.21 km2. The study observed considerable natural variation in both erosion and accretion. Of course, the findings blow holes in the poster scare run by alarmists suggesting that rising sea levels caused by humans using hydrocarbons will condemn many islands to disappear shortly beneath rising sea levels.

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The scientists identify many reasons why islands can grow in size despite the small annual rises in sea level seen in many parts of the world. It is noted that island shorelines are constantly changing due to factors such as tides, winds, nearshore hydrodynamics, and the transport of sediment. On inhabited islands, human actions such as fish farming and land reclamation can be important.

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The Chinese findings are important in helping destroy the claim that many low-lying islands will simply disappear beneath the waves in the near future due to human-induced climate change. They show how shoreline changes are a persistent and ongoing process that is subject to many natural and human influences. Most of the poster islands used for climate scares such as Tuvalu and the Maldives have increased in size of late, and are hardly suitable to whip up fear of a claimed climate ‘emergency’. Sea level rise is not a “predominant” cause of the changing coasts, the scientists note.



And now, as the late great Paul Harvey would have said, you know the rrrrrrest of the story. You’re welcome.

That is all.

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This reminds me of the Gilligan's Island episode where the Professor thought the island was sinking, only to find out that Gilligan had been moving his depth gauge stake further out in the lagoon. And it would be a joke, but for the fact that so many people believe this horse shit.

Read/listen to Crieghtons’s “State of Fear”. It is fiction, but not by much.

Shifting of tectonic plates and subterranean activity has long been known to cause land masses to rise and fall so this isn't too surprising.

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Originally posted by downtownv:
Today brings a story from a group of Chinese scientists who have found that the Maldives and other Pacific islands are not only holding their own against the dreaded rising tides, they’re actually rising themselves. In a paper published in the International Journal of Digital Earth, the researchers found that an “amount of land equivalent to the Isle of Wight has been added to the shorelines of 13,000 islands around the world in just the last 20 years.”

While I don't think Gore's wackiness holds any water, I'm not sure how much I'd trust the paper or the journal cited if they think the Maldives are in the Pacific instead of the Indian Ocean. Or maybe, in a Hank Johnson moment, the Maldives decided to float around to avoid being inundated or being tipped over?

Bezos is a pretty vocal climate change alarmist but he just spent $68 and $79 million, respectively, for two waterfront homes in Miami that he is bulldozing to build a mega mansion, plus $90 million for a third house to live in during construction. He certainly isn't behaving as if Miami will soon disappear, and I've found that is a more reliable indicator of what folks believe than what they say.

Fun aside - the $90 million house last sold in 1998 for ... $2.5 million. That's a heck of an investment.

Yep. The global elites all own a shit-ton of waterfront property. Tells you everything you need to know about their belief in "the science."

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Fun aside - the $90 million house last sold in 1998 for ... $2.5 million. That's a heck of an investment.

And what does Engoran think Mar-a-Lago is worth?

Prepare yourself for thermonuclear level stupid.

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Originally posted by bigwagon:
Yep. The global elites all own a shit-ton of waterfront property. Tells you everything you need to know about their belief in "the science."

Also their belief in not wanting to share waterfront property with the Hoi Polloi.

All I can hope for now is that whoever has to explain this to poor little Greta Thunberg does so in a very kind and gentle manner. She is such a fragile child in a big bad harsh old world that just won't cooperate with her visions of doom and gloom.

Be kind. Be gentle. Killing the dreams of deranged idiots is such a harsh lesson in reality, not everyone will respond well.

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Originally posted by DaveL:
Bezos is a pretty vocal climate change alarmist but he just spent $68 and $79 million, respectively, for two waterfront homes in Miami that he is bulldozing to build a mega mansion, plus $90 million for a third house to live in during construction. He certainly isn't behaving as if Miami will soon disappear, and I've found that is a more reliable indicator of what folks believe than what they say.

Fun aside - the $90 million house last sold in 1998 for ... $2.5 million. That's a heck of an investment.

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Originally posted by DaveL:
Bezos is a pretty vocal climate change alarmist but he just spent $68 and $79 million, respectively, for two waterfront homes in Miami that he is bulldozing to build a mega mansion, plus $90 million for a third house to live in during construction. He certainly isn't behaving as if Miami will soon disappear, and I've found that is a more reliable indicator of what folks believe than what they say.

Fun aside - the $90 million house last sold in 1998 for ... $2.5 million. That's a heck of an investment.

Let’s not forget the Obama’s mansions by the sea on Oahu and at Martha’s Vineyard. Not the acts of people that believe climate change is rewriting coastlines. Just more proof of the lies they really expect the world to swallow.

Sunny Hostin just hit the record all time low --
Having to have Whoopie Goldberg tell her she doesn't know anything about science.

I’m still waiting on the acid rain we were promised.

A foundation built on lies, distortion, manipulation, compulsion, omission, hypocrisy and pseudo logic. These are characteristics of cults we’ve witnessed over the years. They all culminate in apocalyptic panic and desperate remedies. Now we see their predictions have not proved out beyond coincidence. We even have loons blaming the solar eclipse and earthquakes on climate change. They’ve been watching too many John Cusak bed wetter movies.

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Originally posted by jljones:
I’m still waiting on the acid rain we were promised.

...and global cooling, and running out of oil, and on and on.

Didn’t he invent the internet?

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Originally posted by shikemd:

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Originally posted by jljones:
I’m still waiting on the acid rain we were promised.

...and global cooling, and running out of oil, and on and on.

Because most people didn't have any access to the internet in those days, there are very few articles about the subject there.

Now the fear mongers point to the lack of extensive reporting of those earlier hoaxes as proof it didn't happen.

Just in the memories of us Dinosaurs who do remember all that hype.