A newly published article in the Guardian attempts to scaremonger Bostonians by claiming rising seas will inundate large swaths of Boston.
Only the very wealthy will be able to pay for expensive measures to keep the sea at bay, the article claims.
However, sea-level rise is nowhere near the threat the Guardian claims.
Climate zealots have the idea that cities that have withstood rising sea levels for centuries will suddenly pack up and leave if threatened by a few inches in the present day.
The Guardian does, however, make one valid point: Boston, like many U.S. coastal cities, is mostly built on landfill.
For example, Boston’s Logan International Airport was built on a series of sandy islands, and now is one of the busiest airports in the United States.
It is normal for landfills to gradually subside over time, and that makes those areas more susceptible to the small amount of naturally occurring sea level rise that has been occurring since the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850.
The bottom line is that Boston has been dealing with sea-level rise for well over a century, and the city has won. There’s no acceleration in sea-level rise.
Boston tidal gauge data show sea level is rising at the very same rate it was a century ago:
And, if you look at the 2010-2020 decade in the graph, it appears there has been no sea-level rise at all in Boston during the past decade.
Similarly, New York City has been mitigating sea level rise far longer than Boston, and none of the overhyped apocalyptic predictions have come true there, either.
The Guardian article also fails to give readers the full story behind the 2014 photo they used of a firefighter wading through a flooded section of Boston, suggesting the flooding was caused entirely by climate change.
Interestingly, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientifically illustrates a rare event that caused flooding in a section Boston in 2014 that was the cause of the flooding in the photo the Guardian used in 2020.
The flooding was the combination of two events: a higher than normal tide driven by a supermoon event and a storm surge pushed onshore by a powerful nor’easter, much like hurricanes produce storm surges.
The MIT team writes:
“The result? Normal tides in Boston are between 9 and 10 feet, but this storm brought a little something extra. The city saw the highest water level at 15.16 feet, with storm surge topping 4.88 feet mean higher high water (MHHW). The nor’easter also dropped more than a foot of snow in the Boston area.”
Blaming “climate change” for flooding driven by two coinciding natural events is a fool’s errand. And no, Bostonians, you will not have to run for the hills to escape sea level rise.
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Does anyone even pay for the Guardian ?
It is the CNN of the UK .
Seen the usual propaganda on the BBC news of Greenland loosing its ice caused by global warming . Its true off course but the exact thing happened 100 years ago and the locals were growing vegetables etc and an iceberg broke away which the titanic hit and sank . When the Danes invaded it hundreds of years ago it was ice free then which is why they named it Greenland . Facts please .
“A newly published article in the Guardian attempts to scaremonger Bostonians by claiming rising seas will inundate large swaths of Boston.”
So what should we do?
Should we cut emissions?
Will that help?
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The Guardian of what? Stupidity? Fake news? Sensationalist headlines? Maybe the truth wouldn’t hurt sometimes like Climate models are all rubbish or Computer models programmed by money hungry fakes or climate changes every day and always will and we have no idea what we are talking about but can’t help ourselves.
The Guardian, Monbiot, are obsessed with their religion. Anything that happens is due to AGW climate change. And sense of history is entirely lacking. Why take it seriously? It is also very left wing ideologically driven.
The Guardian sounds more like Surer Market Tabloid do the know the whereabouts of the bat Boy right now? The Guardian and the New York Times have lot in common with the Weekly World News