We continue to find laughable errors in the state-by-state climate impact report released yesterday. Today we have this claim in the White House climate impact report for Georgia about coastline for the State of Georgia being threatened by sea level rise: (h/t Ryan Maue)
For comparison, California has 840 miles of coastline.
Map from NOAA US Tides and Currents website
According to the U.S. International Borders: Brief Facts”, by the Congressional Research Service, Table 3 lists the value for Georgia:
It took me about 20 seconds to locate this data. Georgia has 100 miles of coastline, not 707.
If you use the NOAA method, where they measure the outline of every estuary, inlet, peninsula, etc that touches water, we get a value for Georgia of 2344 miles:
Source: http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/mystate/ga.html
No matter which method you use, you can’t get 707 miles.
Add this to the list of laughable data claims already discovered, such as the claim that the president’s home state of Hawaii has 31 counties (it actually has 5), it seems to me that that the White House doesn’t know how to do basic research using a search engine.
Besides, Savannah, GA seems to not have disappeared in the face of its measured sea level rise:
Source: http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8670870
Surely it must be embarrassing for the White House that a “flat earther” blogger like me has to point these factual errors out to them.
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Al Gore’s center of the earth being millions of degrees hot is another one. The Whitehouse might need some type of cosmic radiation shielding to cut down on this craziness.
“… center of the earth being millions of degrees hot … .” [Gary Pearse 7:09PM]
Laugh. Out. Loud.
No mention in this report of by what means the US president intends to electrify Africa. If the energy sources be green, then the continent is doomed to remain dark, I’m afraid.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/30/world/africa/south-africa-obama-pledge/index.html
Re: Virtual Tsunami in Montana. A dam collapse leads to a flood (perhaps of tsunami-like proportions) not a tsunami. However, a wave in the impounded water, generated by a seismic event, is a tsunami. Should the tsunami then collapse the dam there would be a tsunami caused flood, where separating the flood extent from the tsunami extent would be difficult (and moot).