A report commissioned by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, in preparation for next year’s climate leaders summit, highlights the terrifying risk that Boston might get a decent climate.
According to the press release;
Climate change could be even worse for Boston than previously thought
The consequences of climate change on Boston are expected to be far more calamitous than previous studies have suggested, a new report commissioned by the city says.
In the worst case scenarios, sea levels could rise more than 10 feet by the end of the century – nearly twice what was previously predicted – plunging about 30 percent of Boston under water. Temperatures in 2070 could exceed 90 degrees for 90 days a year, compared with an average of 11 days now.
And changes in precipitation could mean a 50 percent decline in annual snowfall, punctuated by more frequent heavy storms such as nor’easter.
Read more: Boston Globe
Click here to see the report.
In my native Hervey Bay, the maximum temperature stays just under 90F with frequent excursions above for 4 months per year, between December to March. It is a lovely time of year – you never get cold, the sea is as warm as bathwater, everyone just feels like partying and enjoying themselves.
The projected sea level rise is obviously a bit more serious, but as previously noted in WUWT, even if the sea does rise significantly, in the 1850s the people of Chicago demonstrated that they knew how to defeat a few feet of water. Other cities such as Seattle also found innovative ways to defeat the floods. What was done in the 1850s could easily be done with today’s technology.
Tropical Storms are rarely a big deal, with the right civic infrastructure. My hometown has no problem handling deluges of 3-4 inches in a few hours, because we have well constructed tropical drainage systems. Perhaps if Boston city hall authorities spent less money commissioning climate reports, they would have enough cash to fix the drains.
Of course, in the real world the chances of Boston realising the glorious subtropical climate of my hometown are remote. Any Boston residents who are feeling the cold will likely still have to plan a retirement in the warm South, rather than waiting for the less than reliable predictions of global warming models to bring their dream climate to their home.
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Time to dump the windmills and solar panels in the harbor! The Greenies are coming, the Greenies are coming!
One solar light if by land, two if by sea…
We’re worse than we thought.
When will it end?
They are 100% wrong.
They are 110% wrong.
San Francisco Bay Area alarmists are predicting an over five feet sea level rise, almost all of which supposedly happens suddenly after 2050. The San Francisco tide gauge record, the oldest in the Western Hemisphere, began in 1855 and leaving out the recent El Nino increase, shows a 107mm increase (4.2in) for the 158 years ending 2013, a rate of increase of 2.7″ per century.
http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/10.php
The tide gauge record further shows barely any increase for over fifty years. The current El Nino, while powerful, is over 2 inches lower than the 1983 El Nino record high of 32 years ago. Other West Coast tide gauges with long (~100 year) records – San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, and Victoria – show similar small increases.
Pipe dreams of alarmists are wrecked on the rocks of observations.
The sky is falling … so obviously it has to displace something at the surface. Since it apparently doesn’t have the mass to displace land, it must be causing sea level depressions offshore and that results in sea level rising along the coastlines. The more sky that falls, the higher the coastal sea level rise will be. The solution is clearly to keep the sky from falling.
If it is worse than we thought, then we must have thought wrong the first time, which makes it all the more likely we thought wrong this time as well. Repeating the same mistakes over and over again isn’t insane, it is habit.
They were wrong the last 21 times.
Nobody can wrong 22 times in a row.
Therefore, they must be right this time.
Looks like Senator Malarky is still loose. The facts are very simple:
CO2 is a “trace gas” in air and is insignificant by definition. It absorbs 1/7th as much IR, heat energy, from sunlight per molecule as water vapor which has 188 times as many molecules capturing 1200 times as much heat producing 99.8% of all “global warming.” CO2 does only 0.2% of it. For this we should destroy our economy, starve the world, cause hunger, riots and wars?
There is no “greenhouse effect” in an atmosphere. A greenhouse has a solid, clear cover trapping heat. The atmosphere does not trap heat as gas molecules cannot form surfaces to work as greenhouses that admit and reflect energy depending on sun angle. Gases do not form surfaces as their molecules are not in contact.
The Medieval Warming from 800 AD to 1300 AD Micheal Mann erased for his “hockey stick” was several Fahrenheit degrees warmer than anything “global warmers” fear. It was 500 years of world peace and abundance, longest ever.
Vostock Ice Core data analysis show CO2 rises followed temperature by 800 years 19 times in 450,000 years. Therefore temperature change is cause and CO2 change is effect. This alone refutes the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis.
Methane is called “a greenhouse gas 20 to 500 times more potent than CO2,” by Heidi Cullen and Jim Hansen, but it is not per the energy absorption chart at the American Meteorological Society. It has an absorption profile very similar to nitrogen which is classified “transparent” to IR, heat waves and is only present to 18 ppm. “Vegans” blame methane in cow flatulence for global warming in their war against meat consumption.
Carbon combustion generates 80% of our energy. Control and taxing of carbon would give the elected ruling class more power and money than anything since the Magna Carta of 1215 AD.
Most scientists and science educators work for tax supported institutions. They are eager to help government raise more money for them and they love being seen as “saving the planet.”
Read the whole story in “Vapor Tiger” at Amazon.com, Kindle $2.99 including a free Kindle reading program for your computer.
Google “Two Minute Conservative” for clarity.
Eric, you might want to take a look at this.
http://www.brattle.com/system/news/pdfs/000/001/079/original/Clean_Energy_Resource_Options_for_Massachusetts_to_Meet_GHG_Reduction_Goals_under_the_Global_Warming_Solutions_Act.pdf?1466514248
God….90 degrees….it’s above 90 here a lot in Texas…..It’s so horrible that I could only play 18 holes today….
ahhhh, it’s worse than we thought – seems like they never get tired of repeating this tired mantra…
Well, if it is the only one you’ve got – – –
This is so like the BS being thrust upon my city.
The local government has commissioned a few reports by an “expert” engineering group called for the record Tonkin and Taylor. Here is a link to the major one: https://thedemiseofchristchurch.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/tonkin-taylor-coastal-hazard-assessment-report-2015-stage-2.pdf
Like most report of this nature, it rambles on, but if one searches for “Sea Level Rise”and other relevant phrases, you can go straight to the important parts.
In spite of their references saying other wise and their reliance on NOAA’s GRACE program they are still warning us that a 1000mm sea level rise is expected by 2015 and the Christchurch City Council needs to start planning for this event right away. Planning means effectively attaching to the 18,000 property titles affected, a designation that this property is classified as being in an “inundation zone”.
Such properties will effectively be banned from improvements, possibly insurance and finance will not be forthcoming and the property values will collapse.
The above mentioned GRACE program or to give it it’s full name “Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment” is exactly that – an experiment and soon after NASA published this report https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-maximum) so there are no actual facts to support this predicted sea level rise that any honest person can detect
This is in spite of several references mentioned in the above mentioned report showing that there is no acceleration in sea level rise yet detected and the rate of rise remains at about 1.7 mm/year as it always has been since records begam about 150 years ago.
What is even more disturbing, you may notice if you read the report, is that Tonkin & Taylor grossly exceed the IPCC predictions.
This makes me believe that other forces are at play here. Could it be that Christchurch NZ used to be a member of ICLEI’ but is now one of the world’s 100 Resilient Cities. Interesting Resilient Cities is a Rockefeller initiative for “sustainability”
I recommend that citizens of Boston and other interested people should examine the Boston city website and other sources closely and find exactly where and from whom these crazy figures and intentions are coming from.
My blog has many relevant facts about my city which seem to mirror those of Boston.
http://www.thedemiseofchristchurch.com
This is serious stuff and is likely to affect all of us in some capacity or other in the near future.
Cheers
Roger
http://www.thedemiseofchristchurch.com
A one metre rise by 2015 would be remarkable indeed.
I myself happen to enjoy all of the seasons that Boston has to offer
Care to tell us about the extraordinarily high rates of skin cancer ?
Only people who don’t wear suncream…
What would Boston have done, if the study predicted the opposite? — Never mind.
You have got to love these people.
I guess if I live that long I won’t have to travel so far to the beach, but I have another 170 feet to go before my home is beach front in Florida. Really, I do believe the oceans will rise a bit each century, but the numbers are not in their favor. It took how long for Captain Cook’s death spot on the Big Island beach to be about 6 feet under water.
You got to love these people.
Paul Pierett
They could learn from the Malaysians and build a SMART tunnel:
Interesting idea. But the Charles River isn’t much of a flooding threat for Boston:
http://www.universalhub.com/node/4302
yet another case of scenariophobia.
And if they lose the mayoral race, the communique can come from certain neighborhood associations or maybe justice of the peace.