The problem is not the drowning (although drowning is what they said about the fate of London’s dog population, a quarter century ago), but the ports for oceanic transportation. When the seas rise enough, the ports and their port cranes (the cranes that load and unload containers from ships) will be flooded and unusable. These cranes may be anywhere from ten feet to twenty or thirty feet above the current sea level and will be inundated soon, making the rising seas of immediate urgency. At the rate of four inches per three decades (1- ⅓” per decade), ten feet would be under water in only (let’s see, that is a foot every nine decades, so ninety decades for a ten foot increase) ninety decades, almost around the corner, possibly within our lifetimes (if medical care advances fast enough)! Holy smokes, we need to do something about CO2 emissions right away — except for China’s emissions, which turn out to not add to global warming, climate change, or the coming global Ice Age, so they can continue building coal-fired power plants in order to run their AI software.

Think of it: some of our ports could become useless in less than a millennium. Instead of celebrating, like we did on 1 January 2000, the next millennial celebration could be fraught with the rebuilding of some of our oceangoing transportation system.

Of course, when the next Ice Age comes — due any millennium, now — the seas will recede, forming a two-mile-thick ice cap that will extend as far south as Minneapolis (which may no longer be the loss I thought it was when I lived in a suburb). With that, we will once again have to rebuild our oceanic ports to the lower levels where the displaced water will end and the rivers will meet the new beaches. Climate Change is the scourge of mankind (and dogs and polar bears).

Oh, the humanity!

Global warming on the one hand, the coming ice age on the other hand, and people, dogs, and polar bears trapped in the middle.

We must prepare now! But first, we have to determine which direction it will all go, warming or cooling, otherwise we will prepare all wrong.

That’s enough sarcasm for this week.

One of the problems with extreme claims is that thinking people avoid association with those that are off the rails. Starship will hit $10.00 a kilo(several) and Starship has already failed/can’t work (Oler&co) for a couple of the extremes to avoid.

I was just engaged in an intense conversation with “progressive” who obediently preaches the “Science has come to a consensus about Global Warming”.

I pointed out that I have never changed my position on this issue, but Bill Gates and one of the founders of Green Peace and many more have had their come to Jesus’s moment regarding the subject.

I prepared this further response if I ever receive a continuation on the subject and will keep it unsent for the moment.

“Data I.E. Objective Science V Consensus: There is a difference.

“With sea-level rise high on the global agenda, numerous organizations have worked to make Copernicus Sentinel-6 the gold-standard reference mission for extending the record of sea-surface height measurements – delivering data with greater precision than ever before.”

RZ: “What makes this particular government press release unusual is that though it is about a climate-related satellite, it makes no mention of global warming and how the sea level rise that has been recorded by the string of similar orbital satellites going back to 1993 is going to eventually drown us all. Maybe that’s because that total rise measured since 1993 equals only about 4 inches. That’s 4 inches of rise detected in more than three decades. At that rate, a little over an inch per decade, it will take centuries to drown anyone, but only those who refuse to walk a few feet to higher ground.”

4″ of sea rise over 30 years (which is negligible and of little concern) and other recorded data points are probably why the likes of Bill Gates and others have had to abandon their religious Global Warming quest.”

We wait.