Poof. Just like that, global warming hysteria is starting to evaporate. Consider this from Lorne Gunter of Canada’s National Post:
Don Easterbrook, a geologist at Western Washington University, says, "It’s practically a slam dunk that we are in for about 30 years of global cooling," as the sun enters a particularly inactive phase. His examination of warming and cooling trends over the past four centuries shows an "almost exact correlation" between climate fluctuations and solar energy received on Earth, while showing almost "no correlation at all with CO2."
And…
…weather-satellite scientists David Douglass of the University of Rochester and John Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville nonetheless dealt the True Believers a devastating blow last month.
For nearly 30 years, Professor Christy has been in charge of NASA’s eight weather satellites that take more than 300,000 temperature readings daily around the globe. In a paper co-written with Dr. Douglass, he concludes that while manmade emissions may be having a slight impact, "variations in global temperatures since 1978 … cannot be attributed to carbon dioxide."
Ouch. Now, if any politician even THINKS about taxing energy during this recession (or during a growth period for that matter), he should be impeached. (Read the whole article here.)
Was there a conspiracy by socialists or greenies in the late 1960s to make the western powers pay for causing greenhouse gases, first supposedly causing global cooling and then as world temperatures began to rise global wamring?
The Western Atlantic’s Shoreline, Global Warming
and Planet Earth’s Wobble
Please understand: as the earth wobbles on its axis, the Atlantic Ocean/Chesapeake Bay shorelines advance and recede on a precise 23,000 year cycle. Based on the status of the polar ice cap vis a vis its line of declination to the sun. This has been going on for hundreds of thousands, probably for millions, of years. And no Obama Volt, windmill or government mandated bamboo shoot diet is going to change that!
However, there are some embarrassingly simple things that the current residents of today’s receding Atlantic shoreline can do to greatly modify the effects of this “sea level rise”. Specifically, we should stop squandering the navigation channel dredge spoils that the central government is, at some considerable expense, parking in a series of ill conceived (Chesapeake Bay watershed) USACE vertical dredge spoil sites. Including Craney Island and Popular Island.
And through the use of hydraulic rotary cutter head pipeline dredges and Rolligon amphibious ditcher-spreaders, use, instead, these navigation channel dredge spoils to reconstruct the fringe marshes and tidal creeks of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. And thus greatly modify the flooding associated with major rainstorms, hurricanes and big northeasters.
The answer to modifying the local effects of rising sea levels involves reestablishment/establishment of large, healthy fringe marshes (living shorelines). And by unblocking those tidal marshes that have been cut off from their estuaries by poorly planned roadways and rail lines.
Simply by depositing navigation channel dredge spoils on a long intertidal slope just seaward of certain bulkheads and eroded shorelines nearby, beautiful, vibrant fringe marshes could be reestablished in one short year. And by enlarging culverts that pass beneath obstructing roadways and rail lines. An acre of salt marsh can remove as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as can ten acres of (tree farm) pine or oak plantings.
The Global Warming “Scientists” like Al Gore, continue to ignore two of the most important studies on control of rising sea levels, reestablishment of critical tidal marshland sponge effect, as well as estuary tidal water cleanup.
The first is the work of former US Senator and American sportsman John Breaux. Witness: the pipeline dredging of shipping channels in the Mississippi River and placement of the associated dredge spoils, on long 1:6 intertidal slopes just seaward of eroded shorelines. So as to reestablish healthy fringe marshes.
Within one year, without marsh grass planting, and without rip rap sills, new living shoreline (fringe marshes) can be established (reestablished)’. These marshland restoration projects are ongoing or already established in Galveston Bay, in Little River Marsh, New Hampshire, in coastal New Jersey and Delaware, in coastal Louisiana, in south San Francisco Bay and elsewhere.
The second study is that of BC Wolverton, a NASA environmental engineer. Wolverton has shown that new (living shoreline) marshes can remove sediment, nitrogen, phosphorus, raw sewage, Hepatitis A viral particles, heavy metals, coliforms and PCBs from the waters that flow through them. During twice daily tidal cycles.
Accordingly, water clarity is markedly improved and thus the ability to grow submerged aquatic vegetation is enhanced! In addition to restoring the vital sponge properties of tidal watersheds. Sponge properties that are essential to modify the damage of rising sea levels. Especially during hurricanes, during heavy rains and during northeasters.
And pipeline dredge restoration of fringe marshes could be done for practically nothing. Especially when considering the savings in disposal (repositioning) navigation channel dredge spoils….cf: instead of transporting same to Craney Island, Popular Island and other USACE designated vertical dredge spoil deposition sites.
Pay attention! We need tidal marshes, not granite rip rap sills, volunteer trash pickup programs, oyster reefs, rain barrels, expensive Bacterra storm water filers, buffer zone shrub plantings and the other feel good-do nothing projects that you tree huggers are so anxious to promote.
Listen! To modify the effects of rising sea levels, we must reestablish the fringe marshes and unblock those tidal marshes that have been degraded by poorly planned roadways and rail lines. Once the tidal marshes are restored, the storm water will take care of itself! But not vice versa. I plead with you and your collaborators to use your library cards before you offer more illogical, poorly researched concepts as those you have presented on Frontline, as well as in other similarly positioned articles.
It’s about the sponge, stupid!
George Meredith MD, President
Linkhorn-Rudee Waterway Fund
To learn more about economical marshland restoration, storm water management search: George Meredith MD Marshland Pipeline Dredging Comments…..or just look at the heavy equipment that is being used in marshland restoration projects…Rolligon Ditcher Spreader, Hydraulic Rotary Cutterhead Pipeline Dredge and the precast 6 X 12 concrete culverts to place underneath roadways and rail line that block tidal flows…