On Tuesday’s NBC Today, NBC weatherman Al Roker warned viewers that climate change was “threatening some iconic American landmarks” and even touted predictions that Washington D.C. may soon be underwater as a result.
The only problem with that dire forecast? NBC has been making that same wild claim for the past 30 years.
“In fact, experts say climate change, it’s already here and it’s causing our sea levels to rise. That is threatening some iconic American landmarks,” Roker announced at the top of his report, the latest installment for the network’s Climate in Crisis series.
Moments later, William Sweet of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sounded the alarm:
“The sea-level rise flooding of the coast has already begun…One foot of sea-level rise by 2050, we’re really talking about big problems at that point.”
Roker feared: “And the impact of those rising sea levels are already being felt up and down the east coast, from Boston, New York City, to Norfolk and Miami.”
After hyping how “The tide is also creeping towards the launch pads in Cape Canaveral, Florida,” he added: “At the rate, we’re going, climate researchers predict a future where major cities, including our nation’s capital, could look like this.”
An animation produced by the environmental activist group Climate Central appeared on screen, showing D.C.’s National Mall covered in water.
In addition, Roker fretted over the Statue of Liberty being submerged and declared that the remains of America’s first colony in Jamestown, Virginia “is at risk of being washed away.”
Following the taped segment, Roker hyped that “the window is fast closing” to take action on climate change. Co-host Hoda Kotb chimed in:
“Well when you see that artist rendition of what goes on in D.C., what that would look like, it really kind of hits you hard to see those monuments under[water].”
As it turns out, that “window” has allegedly been “fast closing” for three decades. On May 4, 1989, Today show, environmentalist Dr. Paul Ehrlich reported for the NBC broadcast and breathlessly predicted:
“…we could expect to lose all of Florida, Washington D.C., and the Los Angeles basin…we’ll be in rising waters with no ark in sight.”
The following year, on January 11, 1990, Ehrlich doubled down on his hysterical assertions, delivering this epic rant:
There is an even greater threat that scientists can only speculate about. As global temperatures rise, they may cause the massive West Antarctic ice sheet to slip more rapidly. Then we’ll be facing a sea-level rise not of one to three feet in a century, but of 10 or 20 feet in a much shorter time.
The Supreme Court would be flooded. You could tie your boat to the Washington Monument. Storm surges would make the Capitol unusable. For Today, Paul Ehrlich in Washington, DC, on the future shoreline of Chesapeake Bay.
NBC, along with the rest of the liberal media, have engaged in similar fearmongering for years, with reporters also seeing New York City doomed to being “lost to the sea.”
Read more at NewsBusters
Well either that Gerry or the top of Fort Reno Park has been eroding too.
Besides who says rising sea levels are bad ? Do the fish complain and besides
isn’t washing away Washington just natures way of cleansing away a non productive nuisance ?
Lets not forget Washington was considered a swamp before it was a swamp .
So what is NBC actually saying …well look folks if we just go back to living in caves we will stop the climate from changing . Hey even set the average world temperature while we are at it . Just give us your money , guns and freedom then sit back and enjoy the useless turd lifestyle you are so entitled to .
All these useless media outfits do is try to create boogie men , the more boogie men the more regulation and socialism they can push for . Not a long term
winning proposition .
Isn’t the real question why have so much of USA MSM become socialist cheerleaders ? Don’t they realize they will not exist ? But maybe that’s the point . Go out of business and walk away from those bad investments that have sunk the pension plans . No self interest there .
Just throwing this out there…
An 1884 map of D.C. gives the elevation at Fort Reno Park as 420 feet above sea level.
https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/ids:7349745
The (most recent) highest natural elevation in the District of Columbia is 409 feet (125 m) above sea level at Fort Reno Park in upper northwest Washington.
A sea level rise of 0.0814814814814815 feet per year or
2.483555555555556 CM per year.
The “Average rate of sea level rise for the world’s best long-term-trend (LTT) tide gauges amounts to about 3½ centimeters per century.”
https://climatechangedispatch.com/tidal-gauges-negligible-sea-level-rise/
Saw something on The Weather Channel this morning that I found curious. Looking at various forecasts for Midwest locations, the predicted low temperature was much higher than the current temperature. eg, Williston, N.Dakota, was at 49 degrees F but the forecast low was 62! Sioux Falls was 61/70. Ft. Wayne, Indiana was 61/70. Decatur Illinois was 58/64. Anyone care to comment or explain the discrepancy?
Since real data won’t support their agendas people like Al Roker have to resort to lies. We need to keep in mind that the exaggerated claim of sea level rise by NASA is 10.5 inches by 2100, and the level that we are more likely to see is half of that. It is also very common for the environmental left to try to saying something is already happening when it isn’t. The trouble is, many hear the lies, not that many know the truth.
Back in 1993 NBC programe DATELINE faked a truck fire of a GM truck by rigging the whole thing claiming the fire had been caused by the gas tank rupturing it was all faked and NBC got in hot water for it all this is not the first time the NBC Peacock has lied
No, Al Roker. Washington is already a swamp, and you’re too stupid to realize that you’re soaking it in.