UPDATE: Allison Rogers, Miss Rhode Island 2006, responds below
UPDATE2: Paul Higgins, who also appears in the video, responds in comments here 2011/09/20 at 6:31 am
Because, well, Miss Florida wasn’t available.
Our friend Ecotretas writes: It is rising…
Climate Reality has had some good moments. Like the moment below, where Paul Higgins, Associate Director of the American Meteorological Society Policy Program tries to answer some pretty easy questions. The first one is how much has the sea level risen in the past 50 years? And how much is it expected to rise in the next 50 years? Easy to get the numbers, as it has risen about 17 cm in the 20th century, so a good reply would be half of that, or about 8.5 cm. And if it is rising at 3 mm/year now, and it is not accelerating, it would rise 15 cm in the next 50 years, less than half a foot…
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. Gosh, when scientists don’t have a clue, then the priests just jump in. Meet Allison Rogers, former Executive Director from Green the Capitol. Who is this cute girl, I thought? Well, like she was presented before, she has a degree in Religion and was Miss Rhode Island 2006! These beautiful girls just say whatever they hear, and for her, the sea level can go up 39 feet, well you know because all that ice from Greenland and Antarctica could just melt…
There were more questions. Higgins still didn’t know… We just can’t emit more CO2. You just have to see the video to get an idea how good this Climate Reality was… If you cannot see it below, or want a better quality, just go here, and fast-forward till 52:53
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Allison Rogers, Miss Rhode Island 2006, responds in comments:
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
WHAT is rising, when Miss RH shows up? Inquiring minds would like to know 🙂
This is sad and hilarious at once. All that’s missing is a bong.
“I don’t want to bogged down in the metrics here…”
They never do.
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.
We are all much dumber after watching that video. We award you no points MMGW pushers may god have mercy on your soul!!!!!
So you don’t have to be blonde to be dumb?….
I was going to make snarky comment. It would have been uncharitable.
These people would deserve pity if their agenda weren’t so destructive.
Regards,
Steamboat Jack (Jon Jewett’s evil twin)
dear god.
can we please get better people talking for my side.
my team sucks
As long as she didn’t say something like “Soon rising sea levels may imperil the bridges connecting Rhode Island to the mainland, and not long after put the entire island under water”……….
They are truly competing with Spongebob Squarepants to render people dumb.
“The study suggests just watching nine minutes of Spongebob Squarepants can cause short-term attention and learning problems in four-year-olds.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10751694
Dave said “This is sad and hilarious at once. All that’s missing is a bong.”
LOL… 🙂
I hate to say it, but as a nerd/geek who didn’t get much female attention… Gore should have chosen his speakers from this pool to get me to watch.
// I can’t decide if I’m being offensive to Gore, Warmists, or Women…
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?)
Wow. Al’s really pulling out the heavy hitters.
But’s what is disturbing in the short clip is the prevailing tactic of the entire movement to spout out conclusions and predictions without even the slightest bit of factual or logical justification, e.g.”… don’t want to get bogged down in the metrics here…”.
Miss RI, and the moderator, who is no slouch in the eye candy department either, do distract the critical thought process and help fuel the faulty conclusions by diverting attention from the BS they just shoveled.
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?
After watching that video with Miss Rhode Island and “the scientist” I have a massive headache.
Probably has to do with smashing my head against the wall wishing the pain of their presentation would end.
DanB:
You are so right. All those good questions and they can’t answer one of the frigging questions. Unfreaking believable. Where did they find that scientist? Is it Scott Mandia’s brother-in-law or something? Plus it’s scripted when they are stumped. For example, MS RI says we should defer to the expert scientist – who is clueless about sea level rise, natural rates of sequestration of CO2.
I bet she couldn’t find West Antarctica on a globe.
That was like watching “The View” on drugs.
I’ve see a video of her that says she is a “Climate Project Presenter (Trained by Al Gore)”.
Nothing like teeing it up so skeptics can hit it out of the park. Wow.
Sorry, but I have to link to this… ;->
The stupid! It burns!
Here she is with the Goracle…
http://www.loe.org/images/content/070112/Miss-RI-and-Gore.gif
Eye candy , more eye candy and quickly. We need help because our ratings are in the dumpster. Can we get one of these ladies to show more cleavage?
Sigh. One brain between the lot of them but I’d still take one home 🙂