Andrew Freedman writes in this Tabloid Climatology™ piece at Climate Central:
When Hurricane Sandy struck New York City on October 29, 2012, the dark waters of Flushing Bay poured over the edges of LaGuardia Airport, flooding parts of the facility’s 7,000-foot long east-west runway, and damaging lighting and navigation systems. The floodwaters created an eerie image of jetways ending in water, as if they had been converted into boat ramps.
This was not the first time that LaGuardia suffered major flooding during a storm, nor will it be the last. Due to climate change-related sea level rise, LaGuardia and other coastal hubs throughout the U.S. face a growing risk of flooding during even modest storms.
Now, wait for it….here’s the fake picture they rendered to show what this might look like:
What La Guardia Airport could look like with 5 feet of sea level rise, an amount that could occur by 2100, according to some estimates.
Click on the image to enlarge. Credit: Nickolay Lamm/StorageFront , for Climate Central, using Climate Central data.
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This is a ‘jumped the shark’ moment for Climate Central. Read the whole story here: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/coastal-us-airports-face-increasing-threat-from-sea-level-rise-16126
Gosh, I never knew that sea level rise was so abrupt that it would catch those speedy airliners off guard so fast they couldn’t move out of the way. The climate change onset was so fast…that maybe future archeologists will find fossilized passengers with half chewed peanuts still in their mouths.
UPDATE: reader “cotwome” provides this image of before and after LaGuardia was built.
Click for a larger image. Note the LaGuardia is all landfill, done in the face of sea level rise. But apparently future builders just won’t be able to keep up.
As they say, ‘the stupid, it burns’.
Read this story for some reality on NYC and sea level rise:
Freaking out about NYC sea level rise is easy to do when you don’t pay attention to history
UPDATE 2: Checking what the FAA says, LaGuardia is 21 feet above sea level by survey.
Source: http://www.airnav.com/airport/KLGA
So one wonders if there will be a retraction for the statement “What La Guardia Airport could look like with 5 feet of sea level rise” and of course the photo.
Tabloid climate hysteria is like dancing limbo. You can always go a little lower. And suddenly, you’re on your ass.
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Don’t they know that seaplanes always have a ‘high-wing’ configuration?
Did I see Bat Boy in that picture?
Airports are now just a thing of the past. Children just aren’t going to know what airports are.
FANTASTIC!! Loaded this as my screen saver. Have I noticed a further name change for ‘Global Warming’? It seems to have morphed into ‘Extreme Weather’
Five feet of sea level rise at the current rate would take over 500 years. They should close LaGuardia in accordance with the precautionary principle.
Actually, they should close it anyway for safety reasons. The runways are too short for normal take-off aborts without landing in the drink.
The red-tailed delta shark is most at home in shallow waters, where it is docile unless it runs low on peanuts.
Hover crafts?
And don’t forget, Climate Central is a bonafide research center. ……. oh, wait…..
“PBS NewsHour: Climate Central a research organization; Sorry, no. They advocate solving man-caused global warming” http://ow.ly/hVDB6
Oh, And not quite all sea planes are high wing: see the Russian ‘Ekranoplan’ skimmers. Neither quite either planes nor boats, I know.
Most of it used to be under water anyway!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hyperakt/4314016881/sizes/o/in/set-72157623184698673/
I think it’s one of the best examples of dumb persons practicing Tabloid Climatology.
I knew what you meant.
Well if you do not build the requisite sea defences against long foreseen problems you get inundated sooner or later.
Sandy was nothing unusual but the authorities either ignored or would not find the money for the relatively small improvements against exactly such flooding as it produced despite having the weaknesses in their flood defences pointed out to them time and again.
How convenient for the politicians who so disgracefully failed to update the infrastructure to line their and their friends pockets with the much needed money to blame the disaster .on climate change, wierding weather or whatever.
At least British politicians did eventually build build the new Thames flood barrier, disgracefully late and wildly over budget: but it works.
Kindest Regards
Mike McMillan says:
June 18, 2013 at 11:36 am
Actually, they should close it anyway for safety reasons. The runways are too short for normal take-off aborts without landing in the drink.
Now, now, no need to frighten the self-loading cargo. After the non-flying pilot says ‘V1’ you’re going flying anyway even if an engine does fail. Before ‘V1’ the plane can stop on the runway remaining.
All jets have plenty of power to take-off with one engine out. Not so much in twin engine planes with both engines out.
So they are also predicting that the planes in 2100 will look just like the planes now.
When you can’t sell your science through logic and rational discussion; make it up!.
To go off track for a minute, the Met Office are holding meetings today with meteorologists and climatologists (sycophants), to discuss if the recent spells of “extreme” weather here in UK are caused by AGW. I can tell you now what there answer will be and it won’t be no!
“””””…..What La Guardia Airport could look like with 5 feet of sea level rise, an amount that could occur by 2100, according to some estimates……”””””
Well not to worry, I just talked to a Boeing Engineer, and he says they are working on a revolutionary new plane that should be in service; based on the 787 Dreamliner schedule experience, by 2100.
A key feature of the new Boeing 2387 Snoozeliner, is a new giraffe undercarriage that holds the fuselage another five feet up off the tarmac, compared to the 787. The new undercarriage is being entirely modeled by software that runs on an iphone 76.
So I wouldn’t hesitate to fly in or out of La Guardia, in 2100, in fact you can even enjoy it in 4D on your iPud 21, running the same software, used to design the Boeing 2387.
Here in the UK late last night we had ‘Rise of the Continents’, a TV show where arch-warmist Professor Iain Stewart was shown on his hands and knees rooting around in the African desert for…fossilised teeth from a prehistoric whale! So, todays desert used to be an ocean, but now we’re panicking about sea level rise of 5″ a century? Dear oh dear.
If you can’t produce facts, make them up, seems to be the catastrophist motto these days.
I think I see a lonely polar bear clinging to a shrinking block of ice over their by Gate 78.
The japanese seem to handle it quite readily
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai_International_Airport
“The island had been predicted to sink 5.7 m (19 ft) by the most optimistic estimate as the weight of the material used for construction compressed the seabed silts. However, the island had sunk 8.2 m (27 ft) – much more than predicted. … “To compensate for the sinking of the island, adjustable columns were designed to support the terminal building. These are extended by inserting thick metal plates at their bases.”.
The picture is more like 25 feet higher rathr than 5 feet. The runway is listed as 19′ 8″ (6.00 m) MSL.
a jones says:
June 18, 2013 at 11:57 am
Well if you do not build the requisite sea defences against long foreseen problems you get inundated sooner or later.
Sandy was nothing unusual but the authorities either ignored or would not find the money for the relatively small improvements against exactly such flooding as it produced despite having the weaknesses in their flood defences pointed out to them time and again.
How convenient for the politicians who so disgracefully failed to update the infrastructure to line their and their friends pockets with the much needed money to blame the disaster .on climate change, wierding weather or whatever.
At least British politicians did eventually build build the new Thames flood barrier, disgracefully late and wildly over budget: but it works.
Kindest Regards
Of course if you have a Mayor that spends his time on the size of soda cup in fast food restaurants, pedaling bicycles (sic), and NOT ensuring building is out of sea surge and flood areas and NOT ensuring building codes against storms and NOT raising sea defenses as repeatedly warned – that is what you get.
One is reminded of this … http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0112-15.htm perhaps now the Mayor might set his mind to doing the mayor’s job.
@ur momisugly Luke says:
Have I noticed a further name change for ‘Global Warming’? It seems to have morphed into ‘Extreme Weather’
I think you’re a bit late with that observation. The smart money for the next move is ‘shortages’. There are likely to be a variety of infrastructure shortages in the near future – energy, water, etc. These are due to following collapsed and discredited Green policies – but I can see people starting to make Malthusian arguments that it’s really the fault of humanity not saving enough…