More Lies From Heidi Central
By Paul Homewood
Because of rising sea levels related to carbon emissions, Boston’s future looks awfully watery, according to this interactive map from Climate Central published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday.
Goodbye, Back Bay. We hardly knew ye, Logan. Adios, Red Sox.
The map shows the future wet threat facing the United States, and areas around Boston fare poorly when looking into the research-focused crystal ball. The map lets users toggle between how Boston’s future could look with unchecked pollution compared to cuts on carbon use in both 2050 and in 2100.
More fraud from Heidi Cullen!
Sea levels at Boston have been rising steadily since the start of the record in 1921, at a rate of 2.81mm/year. This has nothing at all to do with unchecked pollution of carbon.
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8443970
Moreover the rate of rise was much greater prior to the 1970’s.
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/50yr.htm?stnid=8443970
Boston.com report that Climate Central is careful to say that the map does not project how much water will cover Boston by 2100.
Of course they don’t, because they know the facts don’t support their alarmist narrative. At the current rate of rise of 2.31mm, sea levels at Boston will be 8” higher, not the figure of 7 feet quoted in the study.
And what Heidi does not tell you is that the land all the way down America’s Atlantic coast is sinking, just as it has been doing since the end of the ice age. Around Boston, it is falling at a rate of 0.43mm/yr. Cutting CO2 will not have the slightest effect on this.
Climate Central is, according to Wiki, a nonprofit news organization that analyzes and reports on climate science. I wonder who is funding them to issue such false propaganda?
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Funding:
http://www.climatecentral.org/what-we-do/funding
The usual suspects, in other words.
Values
http://www.climatecentral.org/what-we-do
Scientific and Journalistic Integrity — We report the scientific facts of climate change however they fall.
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No Advocacy — We advance no specific policy, legislation, or technology to address climate change. We are scrupulously non-partisan.
I note they are a 5013c organization. Which means the government they produce propaganda for rewards them with tax-exempt status. That would be the equivalent of a “Big Oil” check, don’t you think?
http://www.climatecentral.org/what-we-do/climate-services
Thanks Mr Homewood.
Excellent show n tell. CC is the visualization arm of an effort to make it easy for potentially impacted communities to get a check. They do the marketing maps using psuedoscience. Post Sandy was a big hit for them. They have ties to England’s prestigious Oxford crowd as well as New England’s Ivy Intelligentsia. Think of them as a subcontractor for NGOs. They do beautiful work and have received much praise. Data manipulators and artists lead by a guy who knows how to get attention.
I wonder if Heidi knows that Boston was originally founded on a small peninsula surrounded by mud flats. In the 19th century, much of this was filled in to expand the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Boston#/media/File:Boston_1630_1675.jpg
So 18th and 19th centuries could adapt the area to human needs but in the 20th century that becomes impossible?
Have been there many times and learned about the city’s past on my first visits. Cullen should look into the history of the city of Boston instead of spreading these kinds of nonsens.
The hills were cut down and used as landfills for the coves and low lying parts.
These areas are now exposed to sealevel rise caused by the crust subsiding because of Glacial Rebounding to the north/west . (The area was pushed upward because of the weight of the ice sheet to the north and west)
Thanks, Paul.
This propaganda will continue as long as it produces revenue from the government.
Lets hope the recipients of the message will get tired of the constant unjustified alarm.
NOAA’s Tides & Currents is a very good source of information.
When I bought a house west of Boston (in Hopkinton) my mortgage provider required me to have flood insurance. Thought it was a bit strange because the house was 400 feet above sea level…I guess the mortgagees followed Climate Central.
We shouldn’t forget that most of Boston facing the harbor and the back bay is built on fill that consists of lots of a few hundred years of garbage. It might just be settling.
Back Bay Boston isn’t exposed to the ocean. It’s along the Charles River and there is a dam at the mouth of the river separating it from the harbor.
you might like this one
http://www.maximizingprogress.org/2010/12/boston-landfills-timelapse-anime-map.html
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