AN ASSAULT ON SCIENCE

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The Last Generation of Kiribati
Rising sea levels are forcing people to leave this island nation
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“We are water people,” Rupee’s grandmother says, explaining that her family had lived near the coast for more than two generations. It gave her family privacy and allowed them to escape the crowds and problems associated with living further inland.

In recent years, however, King Tides – as islanders refer to periodic, extremely high tides – have become much more frequent, turning Eita’s low-lying residential areas into an ever-expanding swamp.

Several years ago, the seawater finally swelled above the coast’s shallow banks of Rupee’s home. The high tides swept through the grounds of their property, reducing it to a lagoon-side islet.

A few hours previously, we’d walked through these parts. At the time, it looked like a dry moonscape. Now it was filled with several feet of seawater.
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At low tide, one can glimpse how the once-fertile soil has been transformed into a thick clay of mud, sewage and stagnant water. Stumps of dead coconut trees and car parts slowly rusting in the harsh Kiribati sun lend the seashore a post-apocalyptic feel.

During low tide, local kids play soccer on Rupee’s family lot. But when the tide is high, the ocean engulfs the family home along with entire other blocks.
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Am I the only one who's noted that most climate change deniers completely believe that a man once walked on water?

Miami Flooding Getting Worse With Sea-Level Rise

Because the Atlantic Ocean has risen about 9 inches in the past 80 to 100 years, the problem continues to deepen, said Jennifer Jurado, director of Broward County's Natural Resources Planning and Management Division.

"For many community members, who live in low-lying areas, the flooding has significantly increased in the last several years, compared to what they were experiencing two decades ago," she said.

Florida Keys Prepare For Sea Level Rise

A tidal gauge operating since before the Civil War has documented a sea level rise of 9 inches in the last century, and officials expect that to double over the next 50 years. So when building a new Stock Island fire station, county authorities went ahead added a foot and a half over federal flood planning directives that the ground floor be built up 9 feet.

Seasonal tidal flooding that was once a rare inconvenience is now so predictable that some businesses at the end of Key West's famed Duval Street stock sandbags just inside their front doors, ready anytime.

"It's really easy to see during our spring high tides that the sea level is coming up – for whatever reason – and we have to accommodate for that," said Johnnie Yongue, the on-site technician at the fire station for Monroe County's project management department.

Florida
The $27 Billion Question

Hurricane Sandy demonstrated clearly how serious the risks of rising seas and storm surges are for land near sea level. Here in Florida, the Florida Keys tell the story of rising seas better than most places, with 90 percent of the land mass at five feet above sea level or less.

Homes, businesses, infrastructure and people, as well as natural areas and native species are affected by sea level rise today and may be impacted by storm surge at any time.
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To find out how much or how little margin there really might be for adapting to rising seas, a team of researchers in the Keys, led by Bergh, collected high-resolution elevation data of Big Pine Key and the best-available elevation data for the remainder of the Keys and combined that with the various projections of sea level rise prepared by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and others.

The results were startling: Even the most conservative scenario of a seven-inch rise in sea level by 2100 would equate to dramatic changes in habitat for plants and animals.

“It’s worth repeating that the projected sea level rise of seven inches is actually the most conservative scenario under the IPCC,” says Bergh.

Further refinement of the research in 2011 with even more detailed elevation data, led by Florida International University, shows the property value of the land at risk of inundation from 5 feet of sea level rise is about $27 billion with 56,000 residents and 76,000 acres impacted.

Bergh cites several studies, including the empirical evidence of the tide gauge at Key West, one of the longest continuous records of its kind in the U.S. Its collected data indicate that from 1913 to 2006, the sea rose about nine inches. Considering how quickly the world’s glaciers and ice sheets are melting, it seems, notes Bergh, “far more likely that sea level rise in the Keys –and around the globe - will be significantly higher in this century than the last.”
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They will be no doomsday, just a progressive heating up of the climate, a slow change in coastline, and more and more extreme weather events eg hurricanes galore.

Michael Specter is a journalis making money off the global warming doomsday myth.

So why would his opinions on this subject carry any more weigh then anyone else on the planet?

And your statement is a logical fallacy, ad hominem. Why would a fallacious argument carry more weight than a valid one?