Al Gore never warned us about this! Tonight, this very nigh, the oceans will rise just as the former vice president and Nobel Prize recipient, and the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been telling us it would. Of course, Gore and the IPCC do say it won’t happen for decades and when it does happen, it will be because of the global warming selfish humans are causing by burning carbon-based fossil fuels in our cars and trucks, and burning coal and natural gas in the plants that make the electricity we all depend upon.
Depending on a variety of factors, the IPCC’s Fourth Report predicted that global warming will cause sea levels to rise anywhere from seven to 23 inches by the year 2100. That’s enough to engulf places like Ocean City on Maryland’s Atlantic coast and Padre Island on the Texas Gulf Coast.
But The Heritage Foundation’s David Kreutzer points out that the sea-level increases that will occur tonight won’t have anything to do with Global Warming.
No, it’s all going to be the result of … the Moon, which Kreutzer notes “reaches the perigee of its orbit. In addition, there will be a full Moon. The combination will push high tides to 1.6 feet over the normal high-water mark. 1.6 feet is pretty much the IPCC’s projection of sea-level rise by 2100. Of course the impact of tonight’s flooding will be worse since we won’t have 90 years to prepare and adapt.”
You can read all about what the Moon will be doing tonight here. And you can read more of Kreutzer’s work at Heritage here.
Does this mean we won’t need a Cap and Trade system after tonight?
