Al Gore's Climate Reality Project brings on Miss Rhode Island to talk about sea level rise

As a native RIer I could find this embarrassing. But then again I’m pretty used to the astonishing ignorance of my fellow-citizens. Sometimes you just have to LOL.

So you don’t have to be blonde to be dumb?….

Steven Mosher says:
September 15, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Obviously not! PMSL 🙂
and anyway – Lukewarmers aren’t a team – they are more of a hedge betting group! …..LOL.
and anyway part 2 – when are you gonna accept that the planet simply is not performing according to the dire CAGW based predictions and ergo, something in the data/methodolgy/models/predictions is clearly not right?
If, using the oft warmist quoted analogy of a ‘sick earth’ – the earth was that sick and the ‘doctors’ were giving prognoses and treatment regimes – we could be pretty sure the patient would be being given the wrong medicine/treatment as they still don’t have an adequate understanding of the (alleged) problem. (which of course begs the point, is there actually a problem?)

I’m worried global warming will cause Rhode Island to float away, and eventually, inevitably capsize. With those darn Tea Partiers having such a stranglehold on the budget, who would pay for the cleanup?

I’ve see a video of her that says she is a “Climate Project Presenter (Trained by Al Gore)”.

Sorry, but I have to link to this… ;->

Here she is with the Goracle…
http://www.loe.org/images/content/070112/Miss-RI-and-Gore.gif

So a skeptical meteorologist is not qualified to speak out on AGW because he’s not a climatologist. But Miss Rhode Island is qualified as an AGW enthusiast. No double standard there.

Now, guys, watch it. From one who’s well beyond the point where such activities have an overwhelming priority, tje fact she’s dumb doesn’t necessarily imply that she’s not dangerous. Quite the contrary.
But I have to admit that the indefatigable, unquenchable. persistent dogged ignorance of the CAGW crowd is amazing, even to one with such long experience in stupidity (my own and humanity’s) as I have.

Sorry, I am confused. I thought that the latest Miss Rhode Island was this blonde at 11:44:

She said that evolution should be taught at schools much like all other perspectives how we all came to being. 😉 Is that a different Miss contest? Miss USA vs Universe vs Multiverse vs Globe?

Well that was 2:17 I won’t get back . I admit that I haven’t watched any of this claptrap – is it all this bad ? After reading about half of the posts on this , I will assume the answer is mostly yes .

The current average sea level rise is 3.2mm (1/8″) per year, that comes to 160mm (6.3″) in 50 years, not much. 39 feet = 11.887mm and at 3.2mm per year, it would take 11,887 / 3.2 = 3,715 years. Then again, given that we are overdue for another ice age, we may be entering the next ice age by then.

You people are being really unfair after Miss Rhode Island is as well qualified academical to talk about AGW as St Gore is .

I’ve always noticed the tendency in myself to pay more attention when a beautiful woman is speaking…

Ask any cult leader or nightclub owner. Get the hot chicks and dudes will fall all over themselves to get in.

Steven Mosher says:
September 15, 2011 at 12:47 pm
dear god.
can we please get better people talking for my side.
my team sucks
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LOL,
You need more modeling, much more.

Higgins didn’t have a clue, but suggested that in the next 50 years it would be in the neighborhood of less than half a meter.
I don’t think he was talking about sea level and Ms. Rhode Island was not buying it at all. She was probably thinking “never in a million years you perv.”

Lubos,
When was the last time you caught a glimpse of Miss Multiverse? 🙂

I see Al Gore invoked Miss Rhode Island, who has a degree in religion to talk about rising sea levels ( heh I just won the tall class of Mr North America Saturday, actually its the N American Bodybuilding championships) shouldnt I be called upon since I am a spiritual person too. Nah just a dumb bodybuilder.. negates my degree , you know.
You know whats funny? Remember the Woody Allen movie Bananas, where Woody Allen ( he was a revolutionary in a banana republic in the movie) was on trial for subversion and they called on Miss America to testify against him, because she is Miss America. He had to get that idea from that. Anthony should call him and find out if he ever saw the movie Bananas, though he may have missed it cause it was out around the time of Love Story, which I am proud to say I HAVE NEVER SEEN. BTW the best scene in the movie is when Woody Allen was his own lawyer questioning himself, and the judge had him bound and gagged, and he still got a guy to run in and confess… from another trial.

The only thing that was abundantly clear from watching that clip, was that Ms. RI was batting her eyes at him, relentlessly,while he was making a fool of himself.
When she was talking she kept looking back at him, to check if she had properly scraped him up off the floor he nose-dived into.
Love bites: He didn’t do his homework and was a dimwit, while she was quick with the evasive answer (political sidestep). He might even be dull enough to not notice her fawning attention.
There certainly wasn’t an ounce of climate reality anywhere in that room.

I really wanted to make a crack about the “ortho-doxy” … but it’s uncharitable to mock the afflicted.

@Russell C
Time to play “Are you Smarter than a Beauty Queen?”
The fact is “Rhode Island” is connected to the mainland, aka the “Providence Plantations,” by bridges.
Thanks for playing.
The good news is that neither the Ile of Rode, an early US colony founded by a woman, nor the Providence Plantations, founded by Roger Williams, appear to be at risk of flooding due to sea level rise.

Centimeters, millimeters are the same as feet and inches aren’t they?

I watched the first 2 minutes and lost the will to live … I decided to kill the video before it killed me! The trouble is, of course, that the questions were excellent but to answer them truthfully would have been extremely embarassing. A sealevel rise of 15 cm (6 inches in US units – 1.5 times the width of your hand) in 50 years is not exactly world-shattering.
Seriously, what twaddle! This is the best that Al (call me Vice President, even though I’m not) can come up with??? Mind you, it is hardly surprising when Al thinks the Arctic will be ice-free in what is now well under 5 years.

Well, there is more from Miss Rogers. What can come closer to a Climate Change Priestess? Please check out at http://ecotretas.blogspot.com/2011/09/climate-reality-religion.html
or see the video directly below:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v237pSmbVU8&w=384&h=246]

Anthony,
The source for the 39 feet reference in my response is here:
“World on the Edge” – Author: Lester Brown, 2011. See page 75.
“How far might the sea level rise? Rob Young and Orrin Pilkey note in ‘The Rising Sea’ that planning panels in Rhode Island and Miami assume a minimum rise of 3.5 feet by 2100. A California planning study uses a 4.6-foot rise by century’s end. The Dutch, for their coastal planning purposes, are assuming a 2.5-foot rise for 2050.
If the Greenland ice sheet, which is well over a mile thick in places, were to melt completely, sea level would rise 23 feet. And if the West Antarctic ice sheet were to break up entirely, sea level would rise 16 feet. Together, the melting of these two ice sheets, which scientists believe to be the most vulnerable, would raise sea level 39 feet. And this does not include thermal expansion as ocean water warms, an important contributor to sea level rise.”
– Allison Rogers

Yea Frank I’m with you. Old stoner from the 70’s. I use my bong so I can laugh at this alarmist tripe. I’ve always been an environmentalist; always recycled whenever I could. I pick up other’s garbage at the beach. I think the Brazilian rainforest should be protected. Whales, seals and yes, polar bears must retain there habitats.
I believe all this should happen through capitalistic solutions. I have observed that wealthier countries are able to protect their ecologies. So with the consumption of fossil fuels, economies grow and wealth increases, hence efforts in ecology increase.
When I first heard the doomsday horsepoop from Gore and his ilk, I new it was a con job, I just new it. So I went searching for other skeptics and found many. Now I’m a “Wattsupper” . I’ll burn one and relish each debunk. I especially like it when the “warmistas” (love that euphamism) stick their foot in their mouths. Incidences of which continue to increase.
ZEPPELIN RULES!

Do you guys have the whole 24 hours? I was working and only caught a little. But it seems like there was a guy from Brazil telling the audience you just have to put your trust in the scientists and your faith will bring about a carbon free future with no more storms, no more droughts, no suffering. Not sure if he said no more earthquakes be seems like there was an image of an earthquake. But it was totally like a religion. Just have faith and we will have heaven on earth. A world with no more suffering. It was golden! Or so it appeared from my distracted memory.

Yes, Ms. Rogers, and 15,000 years ago 2 miles of ice sat on top of New York. 5 billion years from now or so the Sun will explode. Unless you put some kind of rational timescale on these things, the numbers are nothing but amusing bits of trivia with no direct relevance to anything.
that’s the important bit that apparently no one ever told you.

It’s like a scene from Mad Men

Well, 4-6 inches is less than half a meter, so I guess Higgins’ answer was correct.
Allison, thanks for participating here with your citation.
Keep in mind that the 39 feet is only a wild projection, It’s a very extreme hypothetical, similar to “What if aliens came to earth”. I trust you will eventually work through your youthful propensity toward such horrific fantasies and will one day assume a more positive and realistic world view.

I have yet to see any planning, anywhere by anybody, of what to do if the sea levels decide to drop precipitously, as in a repeat of the Little Ice Age.
Every sort of planning is afoot for only 1 face of the coin of climate.
Harbors would need dredging, as well as entrances to canals, navigable rivers and access to dry dock would be impaired.
Modern Maritime would be caught flatfooted.

Robroy says:September 16, 2011 at 8:09 am
I Know how to spell knew. I just blew it. Yes, you all can blame the bong.
If you knew what the new gnu knew, you’ld be alright.
Is “you’ld” a contraction for ‘you all would’? Being a northern boy I may have missed out on a regional colloquialism.

Oh good grief, so we’ve sunk so low as mocking a young person’s interest in religion? Shame on you all, especially Anthony for selectively setting the stage for making fun of the person rather than talking about the facts.
But since it seems to be more important to you to talk down to a lovely lady, here’s a couple other credentials you missed: Her religion degree and her Masters in Education was from Harvard. She’s also studying Studying National Security Strategy at the Naval War College.
She’s obviously an intelligent person with a diverse background. Plus judging from her reply, she has more class than you and no need to defend herself from your personal attacks.
Which is more than I can say for myself. I think y’all are pathetic.

Hi Anthony,
Thanks for providing your readers with the link to the video of my comments during the Tonga panel of the Climate Reality Project. I’m happy that my remarks are getting attention and appreciate your help bringing traffic to the video.
Some readers of this blog might be interested to see what I had to say on the other panels I was part of. They’re all available in their entirety here: http://climaterealityproject.org/video/.
I was on these six panels:
Victoria (the panel starts at 43 minutes, 20 seconds)
Tonga (starting at 34 min, 03 sec)
Aukland (starting at 17min, 30 sec)
Solomon Islands (starting at 39 min, 28 sec)
London (starting at 39 min, 04 sec)
Husavik (starting at 35 min, 50 sec)
Those who watch will see that I made four main points (all based on comprehensive assessment of scientific evidence): 1) climate is changing, 2) humans are causing climate change, 3) human caused climate change poses considerable risk to human society, and 4) basic economic principles suggest that putting a price on greenhouse gas emissions would bring net economic benefits to society.
Best wishes,
Paul Higgins

Thanks for the link Anthony.
Paul