Global Warming Alarmism On Exhibit

Will global warming flood the Meadowlands? That's the most recent Record piece to pose that kind of alarmist question. They assume that to be a fact - anticipating that ocean levels will rise and flood much of the coastline 90 years into the future.

Monitors are being installed in the Meadowlands to track the rise in sea levels. The height of every sand dune from Sandy Hook to Cape May is being mapped to determine which stretches are most vulnerable. Environmental officials, meanwhile, are developing a plan to curb emissions from power plants.

“New Jersey’s working on many fronts to confront global warming and the doom and gloom associated with it,” said Elaine Makatura, spokeswoman for the state Department of Environmental Protection.

More than $106 billion in real estate in coastal counties will be at risk from rising sea levels and more frequent storms by 2100 if global warming continues along its present course, according to a report issued Wednesday by the National Conference of State Legislatures with help from the University of Maryland’s Center for Integrative Environmental Research.

Parts of the Meadowlands and areas along the Hackensack and Passaic rivers that feed it will be inundated or flood more frequently as sea levels rise, the report said.

Never mind that no matter what is done in the US to curb US domestic emissions, the emissions worldwide will continue to increase in the Third World, more than offsetting any decreases domestically.

That point gets lost in these kinds of reports. Yet, the Record's editors somehow managed to include the fact that these dire reports are conditioned on whether the predictions pan out. The dire predictions may not come to pass and that means that the supposedly dire costs to the state may not come to pass either.

These reports are based on computer models. To project into the future, the scientists have to make assumptions. If the assumptions are wrong, the model will be accurate as far as the assumption is concerned, but is still wrong.

The Record goes out of its way to use the global warming alarmism to question economic development throughout the state, including in Atlantic City and the Meadowlands and quotes an anti-development spokesman to highlight this. Considering that environmentalists fight tooth and nail over development anywhere in the state, it's a wonder that any new projects that help the state's economy go forward.

The world is constantly in a state of change, and the current climate is no different. Are world temperatures increasing or decreasing? Well, it depends on who you talk to and the time span in which you put the past decade. Temperatures have actually been no warmer than they were a decade ago, which should fly in the face of the claim that COx emissions play into global warming since proponents claim that COx is a leading indicator of warming - the more COx in the atmosphere, the warmer it will get.

Curiously, that has not been the case. Also, there's a minor issue with the sun that bears watching. Other planets are showing the same kinds of warming over the same period of time as the Earth, and yet there are no SUVs, cars, or industry to explain such warming. Solar output variations may explain this, but that would severely undercut the whole global warming cottage industry.

Global warming proponents are using their dire predictions to foster massive expenditures, wealth transfer, and restrictive economic policies that will damage the global economy for decades to come.