Image from the WUWT story: National Geographic’s Junk Science: How long will it take for sea level rise to reach midway up the Statue of Liberty?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Climate alarmists have broadened their desperate search for a way of engaging people’s attention, by compiling a list of iconic tourist attractions and national icons which they claim are “threatened” by climate change.
For example;
Statue of Liberty, U.S.A.
This statue has stood in New York Harbor welcoming millions of immigrants and tourists to America from around the world since 1876. That was when the statue, designed by sculptor Frederic Bartholdi and engineer Gustave Eiffel, was given to the U.S.A. by France in celebration of the 100th anniversary of American independence. The statue is vulnerable to sea level rise and extreme weather. It was closed for nine months following damage from Hurricane Sandy in 2011.
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Dozens of iconic tourist destinations including Venice, Stonehenge and Old Town Lunenburg, N.S., are threatened by risks linked to climate change, from rising sea levels to extreme weather, says the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Climate change-related threats to 31 World Heritage sites in 29 countries are highlighted in a new report released by UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Program and the Union of Concerned Scientists today.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/unesco-world-heritage-climate-change-threats-1.3600924
The article also claims lots of other important icons are threatened, such as Komodo National Park (Komodo Dragons), the Easter Island Statues, Stonehenge, Yellowstone – a real grab bag of high profile heritage sites.
Coral reefs, which have featured a lot in recent press, barely get a mention.
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I’m very worried about Mt Everest…
The last refuge.
I’m selling sites on Mt Everest. It’s first come first serve.
Get there before the water does.
I thought that Mount Everest was rising about 10 mm per year due to tectonics so with luck it’ll keep ahead of the lapping waves.
Sir Edmund Hillary had it so easy when he went up.
Although that earthquake in Napal apparently moved it sideways.
We need to get funding for some stout rope and figure out how to tie it down.
“This statue has stood in New York Harbor welcoming millions of immigrants and tourists to America from around the world since 1876. That was when the statue, designed by sculptor Frederic Bartholdi and engineer Gustave Eiffel, was given to the U.S.A. by France in celebration of the 100th anniversary of American independence.”
In 1877 Bartholdi was still working on the statue’s head in France. The whole statue arrived in New York in 1885. The pedestal was completed in 1886. UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Program and the Union of Concerned Scientists can’t even get history right. Much less predicting future catastrophes.
They’ve gone to the dogs,or at least, the dog.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/20/sunday-silliness-kenji-takes-on-the-ucs-chicken-little/
Same thing I was going to point out. Those of us who were arund for the 1986 centennial celebration know this, but apparently nobody in UNESCO is old enpugh to have a personal memory of this basic fact. Nor are they old enough to remember that the last hurricane to devastate the Gulf Coast of Mississippi was Hurricane Camille in 1969, deep in the middle of the cooling dip in global temps that ran from 1935 to 1975.
if you run the calculations, sea level will only rise by 74cm… centimeters
lol
Apparently Americans are not the only ones who have trouble with the metric system. 🙂
It’s much worse than that! sarc
If only we could re-film…”Those damn apes killed us with global warming!”
It’s true. I saw it in that documentary “The Day After Tomorrow”.
Last time I looked, Yellowstone was geothermally heated, and it’s lowest point (near Gardiner, MT) is about 1 mile above current MSL. Certainly they aren’t trying to imply that climate change will trigger a caldera eruption, as has been happening about every 600,000 years for a few million years.
Venice? VENICE? They’re seriously blaming VENICE on climate change? The subsidence of Venice has been well understood for a long time and climate change has nothing to do with it. Considering what the Venetians did to Byzantium, I won’t be entirely sorry if the buildings slip under the waves.
I thought sea level rise was going to destroy my home, I went down to my mud room and there was water every where. Then I realized it was just my washer had over flowed the slop sink again. Darn I was hoping for a government bailout.
Next, Bob, you de-ice your freezer and it flows all over the floor. Double the money!
That’s what’s so insidious about global warming! It knows to go after appliances!
Long time reader, this is my first post to WUWT.
They had a cover picture for an issue a few years ago, with the water that high on the statue.
That was the last straw for me. Cancelled my subscription after more than 25 years. NatGeo is shameful in the way push junk science.
Bob
CBC is a disgrace. They spew biased agitprop day in- day out.
+1000! Harper should have chopped it up when he had the chance!
Parasitic journalism and politics grows on top of wealth creation centers like algae. It blooms out into the surrounding countryside from time to time, usually with disdain by the locals.
Erh… before all that ice is melt this statue of liberty will be already gone, forgotten, and fossilized..
In case anybody is interested, the UNESCO report can be found here.
It is 108 page PDF (8.6 MB) of global warming doom and gloom models.
World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate
http://whc.unesco.org/document/139944
“This publication was made possible with financial support of the Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, France”
Did they include Ministry of Truth in there?
Might as well have, you with the awesome name.
I can’t take credit for the name.
From the “report”
AUUGH! Real information! Take it away! It burns! It burns! Oh! It’s not so bad!
Accurate information is caustic to alarmism you are right there
When I post things like this on the Grauniad comments, the mods delete them. One of the mods is the main protagonist in the comments and he deletes all your replies that debunk his nonsense, called Rockyrex or something.
The percentage splits in that colour coding are strange; they vary from 4% at the bottom end to 24% at the red end and unevenly spread in between. Well designed to make it look more alarming
Interesting chart, particularly if you are interested in specific threats to these sites. However, I think there are a few problems:
a) Israel does not exist, unless it has become part of the “Arab World” (pandering to the Palestinians now in the UN?), Europe, or Africa. Also, what happened to non-Pacific Asia? Australia?
b) The claim that illegal activities is/has affected only 22% of sites in the Arab World: even if it is only counting through 2013 (a lot of Daesh looting has occurred since), I have a hard time believing that looting has not been a bigger problem. I cannot wait to see the deliberate destruction and illegal activities numbers for 2014-2016. I am sure it will be way more than 20% of sites.
c) Identity, etc only has a negative effect on 2% of European and North American sites? With the demographic changes over the last few decades, I doubt this is true. If anything, historic preservation in the US is becoming more difficult as money is spread more thinly and sites connected with “dead white men” are vilified.
d) Are they seriously trying to claim that 0% of sites in the Caribbean/Latin America and Asia-Pacific were affected by war between 1979 and 2013? Even if there were no “official” wars (doubt it), there have been plenty of conflicts.
UNESCO needs to get themselves together. Even their non-climate related numbers appear fuzzy. I suppose we should be grateful that “Table 1” is not just a box containing the words “Climate Change is destroying 100% of sites”. Notice that the highest percentage of sites negatively affected by a cause that could (sort of) be considered AGW related is only 16%. Of all the actual threats, why are they (and the media) focusing on something that is so minor? Imagine how many sites could actually be better preserved and protected if UNESCO and the like worked on the big problems. More casualties of the AGW movement, though if you hate humanity, losing cultural sites is something to celebrate.
The report erroneously mentions Hurricane Sandy striking New York and causing damage. Sandy was not a Hurricane when it made landfall in NJ, it was downgrades to a Tropical storm. Why would anyone trust a document with such inaccuracies and gross errors errors.
It was, if fact, a tropical storm when it first made landfall in the US, somewhere around the Carolinas.
She’s standing up on that perch for a reason. She knew what was coming.
Yup, the French sent it knowing it would be a tide gauge in 2100.
We should be looking down on the high rises in Miami by now.
“For FIFTY YEARS scientists have known about global warming. This exerpt is from the well known educational documentary “Unchained Goddess” produced by Frank Capra for Bell Labs for their television program “The Bell Telephone Hour.” It was so well made, that it went on to live a continued life in middle school science classrooms across the nation for decades.”
From the looks of that sea-wall and the high water mark, there’s about 5 feet to spare.
At 12 inches of sea-level rise per 100 years, we’ve got about 500 years to do something.
What, me worry?
“This statue has stood in New York Harbor… since 1876.”
1886 (not 1876)…
For any Americans that are unsure of Stonehenge’s location – which the authors of the report must be assuming is most – it’s 30 miles from the coast and over 300 feet above sea level.
Need one say more ?
How does the distance from the sea affect the moles, rabbits and badgers than the UN thinks will cause its demise?
Venice, Italy
Venice is a city known for its beautiful Byzantine, gothic, renaissance and baroque buildings built amid a network of canals and 338 bridges. It’s one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, with 10 million overnight visits in 2013 and at least twice as many day visitors, the report says. However, it’s one of the World Heritage sites most at threat from sea-level rise.
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What’s endangering Venice :
https://www.google.at/search?q=cruise+ships+in+venice&oq=cruise&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j0l2.10717j0j4&client=ms-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
heck of a lot of displacement to add to the fact it is sinking
I once calculated w current sea level rise rate, it would take 90,000 years to cover the statue and 75,000 years to get up to her neck, aka, National Geographic pic level. I got scared, very scared. Ok, not really. My reaction was really disappointment I won’t live 75,000 years to see this.
More than likely humanity will be either a remnant of today numbers wise or totally extinct by 75000 years so no worries 😀
They will move the Statue of Liberty when the sea rises! It’s only a Statue not a geological feature.
They completely tore it down in order to clean it about 30 years ago. It can be done again if need be.
If the Park Service can move lighthouses, they can move or raise the Statue. I have faith in our engineers, less in sea level rising enough to be a problem while the Statue exists.
For detailed understanding of actual Sea Level Rise in NY Harbor, see my earlier piece on Hurricane Sandy at @ur momisugly https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/09/19/from-the-scientific-urban-legend-department-agw-sea-level-rise-made-sandy-more-destructive/ .
Liberty is in danger, but not from rising sea levels.
While it’s not terribly scientific, and there are many confounding factors, my minimal survey of modern and 1930s low-tide photos of Liberty Island indicate *remarkably* little change, I almost wonder if something about the bay or the island itself have mitigated normal sea level rise.
It really looks like there’s been zero. Again, unscientific, tides vary, etc.
Shouldn’t that be: “Climate pseudoscience threatens liberty”?