Guest ridicule by David Middleton
From “The Stupid, It Burns” files…
Mayor issues directive on climate change
The Commission says the city should plan for 3-feet of sea level rise by the mid (mid-what?)
By: Nikki Schenfeld
Posted: Jul 16, 2018HONOLULU (KHON2) – The City of Honolulu’s Climate Change Commission presented the “Sea Level Rise Guidance and Climate Change Brief” to Mayor Kirk Caldwell on July 16, prompting him to sign a directive requiring all departments and agencies under his jurisdiction, to take action to prevent sea level rise.
The Commission says the city should plan for 3-feet of sea level rise by the mid-century and if action isn’t taken now, nearly 4,000 structures on Oahu would be flooded, and nearly 18 miles of coastal roads would become impassable.
“The sea is rising, we see it all around our island, everyday everyone in this room, when you go to the beach everyone sees the erosion,” Mayor Caldwell said.
“If you take no action and we live with the consequences, then what happens to Waikiki?” he added. “Our largest industry $15 billion in revenue—what happens? If we don’t take action now we’ll have worse consequences later.”
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“The Commission says the city should plan for 3-feet of sea level rise by the mid-century”… I guess, in all fairness, they didn’t say which century…
1.48 mm/yr = 0.058 in/yr —> 3 ft in 618 years. 2636 is mid-century-ish… Mid 27th century.
Thus spoke the stupid Mayor, Kirk Caldwell, . . .
But I repeat myself.
Be that as it may, the place will be better able to take a hit from storms or large waves.
I’ m sure Hizonor knows that he is full of crap. This behavior is callled flaunting ones virtue and is indicative of an internet-centered, progressive lefty> I do not know Mr Mayors political bent but i’ll venture to say he belongs to the aforementioned ilk. Good luck to him.
Of course the sea is eroding Hawaii. The Pacific tectonic plate has been sliding over that mantle hot spot for a long time, resulting in an island chain stretching thousands of miles to the northwest. Many of those individual seamounts now underwater were once islands and were eroded down by the ocean. Oahu will eventually go the same way.
Mayor Kirk Caldwell sounds like a latter day King Canute to me:)
One can’t fault the mayor, or even the commission.
They’ve been told incessantly by every single institutional scientific authority that AGW is real, and sea level rise will happen. The National Academy told them, and still does so. NASA and NOAA told them. The IPCC told them. The APS has told them. All the scientific societies have fallen in line. None of them have taken it back, or indicated a hint of doubt.
It’s not burning stupid. It’s burning criminal negligence. This business shows the financial consequences of the criminal and spontaneously organized cabal of incompetents who have bet on the come of CO2 and climate.
They have claimed to know what they manifestly cannot know. They have cynically misrepresented dissent as partisan politics or greed. They have been aided by a complicit MSM.
One shouldn’t laugh at the mayor. He, after all, is behaving honorably in the social context of AGW. One should instead register a cold anger at the incompetent promoters of AGW who have so terribly degraded science.
“If you take no action and we live with the consequences, then what happens to Waikiki?”
You will get sand from offshore, LIKE YOU DO NOW. You’d think the dang mayor would know that.
WELL……..obviously the bloody volcano is doing it’s best to raise the
bloody Island as far above sea-level as it can !
AND IS IT APPRECIATED !???
NO !!!!
NOT A WORD OF THANKS !!
Bloody tourists ! Burnt a couple just the other day with a NEAR MISS !
Anyway , that will deter them and STOP them WEARING DOWN THE ISLAND
by walking around on it !!
Religious fanatics can see evidence of God in a tortilla or screen on a door.
Why are we surprised that a politician can see a cri$i$ in a oerfectly calm sea?
Was my language too strong, mod? 🙂
Having had the good fortune of traveling to the Hawaiian Islands on multiple occasions I think the good mayor has an even bigger problem on his hands.
On every island populated and accessible in the chain (well, I haven’t been to Lanai or Molokai, so they may be exceptions) you can find plaques detailing the history of the Hawaiian Island chain explaining how they came to be via volcanic activity. Those same plaques point out that Kauai, the northernmost major island and oldest of the large group, is sinking into the sea due to both plate tectonics and erosion (erosion greater than the formation of sand caused by other erosion). The youngest (and largest) of the Islands, Hawaii, as all are aware is growing and serious geologist know full well that there will be another Hawaiian Island in the distant future south of the Big Island. None of us will be around to see it, but Kauai will be smaller if it’s there at all by the time the new island breaks the ocean surface.
I first visited Oahu in 1974 and most recently in 2010. The amount of beach space, anecdotally of course, on Waikiki was roughly the exact same over that time frame, subject of course to the tides. Oceanfront property on any of the Islands commands a premium. Yet we hear people on our visits talk about how the beach “seems” smaller (on any of the islands) simply because they are mimicking what they hear in the media. They never account for the tides and I would concur: at high tide the beach is smaller than it is at low tide (duh).
Hawaii faces any number of serious issues, predominantly culturally. The mayor would be far better off spending his time and efforts on that.
To stop at Kauai misses the story. Midway is in the chain. The Hawaiian Islands extend past Midway, all the way to the Emperor Seamounts. A model at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, shows this.
As does Google Earth.
Visiting French Frigate Shoals is on my bucket list.
Don’t know who is more ignorant in this gloom and doom episode, those advising the Mayor, the Mayor or the people that elected him and will probably re-elect him. Of course the Mayor is using this as a really big distraction; he must be up for re-election. If he can get his electorate worrying about catastrophic sea level rise then he hopes you want notice the day to day problems that are going unfixed. Having worked around local government it is not clear to me what exactly the cities agencies are suppose to do if catastrophic sea level rise was happening. I am betting the Mayor and friends are planning a really big tax hike.
Best thing that could happen to Oahu would be for it to be drowned under 3 feet of water.