Climate Change?

not so fast

I heard an “expert” on the radio this morning talking about rising water in southeast Florida threatening coastal buildings.  All about climate change, not one word about common, old-fashioned beach erosion.  

The ocean does what it wants with beaches, makes entirely new inlets, washes whole island civilizations away overnight.  It is not worried about the sand in front of condos.  The ocean has a whimsical personality.  Ask oceanfront homeowners in New Jersey about rising water.  I can walk you to where the old inlet was in Fort Pierce, and I watched a new one form in Wilmington, N.C.  As an old fisherman told me at the fish house one day, “Harricans does it.”

Here in St. Petersburg there’s a huge hue and cry over dramatically rising insurance costs for people with homes in flood zones.  It’s an effort to make waterfront and flood zone residents pay a bigger part of the insurance burden their homes put on the rest of us.  Why should an inland resident help subsidize insurance costs for the owner of a fancy beachfront home?  It’s risky building out there, and the owner knew it when he built it.  If he’s pissed off about the new rates he has the option of paying off his home mortgage and dropping flood insurance altogether, taking the risk on his own shoulders.  In this discussion too there’s mention of global warming and how it’s going to affect real estate values in Florida and other states with coastal communities.  Scare tactics all around.

If you’re interested in climate change, there’s an interesting  website, Climatedepot.com, that stays on top of it.  Townhall.com also has John Ransom, who reports on the IPCC findings in an amusing style.  And don’t forget Mark Steyn, who makes a pinata out of stuffed-shirt “climate change experts”.  Millions of people think global warming is a hoax.  Countless climate and weather experts disagree on many of the points the global warming "scientists" present.  It's far from "established science."

Liberals, many of whom consider their thoughts to be “intellectual”, as opposed to commonsense observations by people who know a scam when they see one, believe in the “scientific facts” of global warming and will not consider contrary research, won’t discuss the reports of their own scientists that show what a house of cards they’ve built.  They’re like born-again Christians who tell you that your contrary religious opinions are brought by the Devil, therefore not worthy of consideration. 

Al Gore, Joe Biden and John Kerry believe in Global Warming.