From the “confirmation bias breeds delicious irony” department comes this hilarious moment when one climate alarmist gets pwned by the fake predictions of another.
Back in 2012, Andrew Freedman was working for “climate Central” and published a ridiculous story about sea level rise and New York LaGuardia airport.
I pointed out immediately how ridiculous and wrong his story was…
Freedman was trying to show that LaGuardia was susceptible to sea-level rise, and beclowned himself in the process with the faked-up photos depicting what it looked like. I commented then:
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 archaeologists will find fossilized passengers with half chewed peanuts still in their mouths.
The problem with Freedman’s article depicting 5 and 10 foot sea level rise is that LaGuardia is 21 feet above mean sea level:
Source: http://www.airnav.com/airport/KLGA
I added then: (with a slight grammar/spell correction added today)
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.
…yet it remains published at Climate Central today, and traps the unwary and the confirmation biased.
Today, it came full circle, and trapped former NYT Climate and Environment editor author Andrew Revkin, when he retweeted this:
The photo, when enlarged, is this:
It wasn’t even the right city.
NYT’s former climate and environmental editor author Andrew Revkin, pwned by Climate Centrals former writer Andrew Freedman over a fake image. It doesn’t get any more hilarious than that.
ADDED about 5 mins after publication…
But Revkin at least has the good sense to own up to the mistake:
Now if only Andrew Freedman can convince Climate Central to get rid of that ridiculous article with the faked images.
UPDATE: Other news sources were taken in by the faked up image as well:
They write on their website:
Note: Initially Wrong Photo was posted without knowing. We got the photo from the tweet news. After sharing the news on AeroChapter we came to know that the photo is a wrong one. So we changed it on the website, but couldn’t change what posted on FB because FB has no option to change photos. Also the posting couldn’t deleted because within minutes there are hundreds of shares.
Sorry for misleading. Actually it was not our intention to mislead
“We got the photo from the tweet news.” At last someone has admitted the source of ‘fake news’.
Repeating crap you read on twitter is NOT journalism. It’s a damn shame that Revkin and his cohorts think it is.
Yes, “we got the photo from the tweet news” in an era when “senior writers” of 25 report to “senior editors” of 30…not a good mix.
Plus 5 feet, SLR wouldn’t reach up that high on the airliners even if the LaG was at sealevel.
Nice work Andrew.
Anthony
Yes – It was a photo shopped, alternate reality picture of LaGuardia, but it could have been Houston!
This isn’t ‘fake news’. It’s alternate reality news, provided once again by the AGW alarmists.
That alternate reality must be the one where Socialism works.
As in an alternate reality Venezuela, perhaps….
Being reported here in Aus as “connected” to climate change.
Of course it is. If ever the citizens of OZ are convinced that they are the victims of a seriously bad hoax they just may rise up and lynch their political leaders and then their climate scientists.
Climate Crazed Polar Bears Riding Sharks Through Flooded Streets of Houston
Details at 11.
I meant Film at 11.
Mere ignorance and ideological blindness. Not that intent to lie we normally get.
The “tweet news”! That’s a new one. The tweet news is for twats.
I read an article saying that air traffic congestion and delays around NY City would be greatly reduced if LaGuardia were closed. It doesn’t handle that much traffic, but the aircraft circulation cone for it cramps those for JFK & Newark airports and complicates routing for controllers.
The article said that elites who frequently commute to Washington DC like it because the driving time to/from Manhattan is much less than that to the other airports. So that’s why it’s still here.
BTW, the Airbus plane that landed in the Hudson (after taking off from LaGuardia and having a bad bird strike) had a feature on the undercarriage to block the inflow of water. It sank only because a passanger opened the rear door.
Roger Knights
First rule of floating.
Don’t let the water in!
It’s physically impossible for that to happen at Bush Int’l. Wrong type of terrain.
And here I had the feeling Twitter was dead.
Bwaaaaaaahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!! *snort* bwaaaahahahaha.
I needed that today!! Thanks Anthony!
I have my plane (a Piper Comanche 250) at Palo Alto airport (KPAO). The highest elevation of the runway is 6.8 feet MSL. The airport has been in existence since the 1930’s. We are still above sea level!
Actually it was not our intention to mislead
Oh, but thanks for showing how easily you are misled.
Laguardia is 21 ft above sea level and those planes are sitting in about 15 feet of water.Sea level has been rising close to 6″ per century for a long time with no acceleration.
So, actual sea level will reach the level depicted in the picture in 7195 years…assuming the steady rate continues.
I suspect, however, that someone will be smart enough to move the planes by then.
I’m sorry what was his mistake ? Because when he “owned up to it” he didn’t articulate just what he did wrong. He didn’t admit to not following any procedure or process that would have revealed his mistake BEFORE publishing it … I suspect he DOESN’T have any process to ferret out fake news/photos … this is what happens when religious followers make things up on the fly … there is a reason every potato with the face of Jesus on them isn’t declared a “miracle” by the Church …
So no, he didn’t own up to anything … he got caught with his pants down around his ankles and wants to act like it could have happened to anyone … if he wants to get off with AGW porn at least he should do it in the privacy of his own home and mind …
Hey Anthony-
Maybe now they’ll remove the photo???!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/08/28/no-the-shark-picture-isnt-real-a-running-list-of-harveys-viral-hoaxes/?utm_term=.27d707f88c66
Or…maybe not! At least it’s now shown as a “hoax “.
“fossilized passengers with half chewed peanuts still in their mouths.”
Not allowed surely due to peanut allergy risk?…..
Elf n safety would have a conniption fit…
Revkin visiting WUWT may be very good for his knowledge, and perspective. For example, Andrew, sealevel rose about 130 metres from the last glacial maximum just over 20,000 years ago, and the planet did that all on its own without any influence from CO2.
The well known sealevel curve at that link shows most of that sealevel rise happened over 10 000 years. 130 m in 10 000 = 13 mm / year.
Church & White 2011 estimate global average sealevel rise from 1900 to present at 1.7 mm / year.
So, natural variability demonstrated by the planet 10 times greater than present rates of change. And of the present measured rate of change, how much can be attributed to CO2?
Where is the alarm?
Where’s the Spruce Goose when you need them?
Fact check, fact check and fact check….. and before you publish…. Fact check one more time…. You would think that in this day and age of the Internet and photoshop that major media out lets and journos would be a wake up to simple jests and joke photos…. But apparently not.
Photo looks like the north side ramp (Cargo and Delta aircraft parking) at ATL.
And if you’ve ever been to Houston, you’d know that’s about a year’s supply of Delta planes for either airport…