JF Mezei wrote:

On 2018-02-17 08:10, Scott M. Kozel wrote:

Millions of people have lived for decades at sea level waterfront,
like my parents have, and call bullcrap on the Fake Science claims
that sea level is rising, when they can see for themselves that on
seawalls and dock pilings that the water level has not risen in the
almost 50 years that they have lived there.


When sea level increase is smaller than average size of waves, the
markings on seawalls and dock pilings reveal nothing.

You can't take a few cm of average sea level rise independently. It is
more of a side effect of global warming.

1- Sea level rise is indicative of ice cap melting. Reducing ice cap
also resiudes albedo since you replace a white surface with a dark one
which means more of the sun's energy is absorbed by planet.


Actually, no. The majority of sea level rise so far is purely from
thermal expansion. The north polar cap melting will have little to no
effect on sea levels, since that stuff is already floating and so is
already displacing water and so increasing sea level heights. The
south polar cap, which is largely on land, is a different matter.


2- Warmer waters and more water means more frequent and stronger storms.
Stronger storms dump more water (Houston). And higher sea levels means
that storm surge is amplified. (Sandy which flooded lower Manhattan,
destroying Verizon's copper wiring under streets, flooding tunnels etc).


Actually, no. Both those cases were the result of peculiar weather
combinations and not climate (or so the experts say).

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Trump says he wants to save money by pulling out of Paris Accord. Does
this mean that he will redirect money to strenghten infrastructure to
better resist storms? Will he pay to buuild the new trans-Hudson tunnel
so the old one can be shut and repaired because of the damage from
Sandy? Of course not. Climate change deniers are blinded to all
eveidence so they don't even realise that they are already paying the
cost of climate change.


No, what he's proposing is NOT shipping billions of dollars to Third
World nations in the name of 'compensation' for Global Warming.


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