NBC Alarmism: Global Warming 'Could Cause a Whole Lot of Damage Much Sooner'
Seizing on warmer than usual temperatures across the country on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams ominously warned viewers: "Much warmer weather can have a dark side, of course. And tonight there is a new projection that rising seas due to climate change could cause a whole lot of damage much sooner than anyone had previously thought."
Correspondent Anne Thompson used recent weather events to drive the point home: "The ferocious surge of the Atlantic powered by Hurricane Irene last August moved a lifeguard tower...broke through a sea wall, and sent water rushing into the streets of New York's Long Beach. A scene that will become more commonplace, a new study says, because of rising sea levels caused by global warming."
A sound bite followed of Benjamin Strauss from Climate Central, an global warming advocacy group whose mission statement reads:
The climate crisis isn’t just some far-off threat: it’s a clear and present danger. Galvanized by this sobering reality, Climate Central has created a unique form of public outreach, informed by our own original research, targeted to local markets, and designed to make Americans feel the power of what’s really happening to the climate. Our goal is not just to inform people, but to inspire them to support the actions needed to keep the crises from getting worse.
Thompson simply described the organization as a "non-profit group."
Reading from the Climate Central script, Thompson proclaimed: "Who's at risk? By 2030, the 5 million Americans living on coastal land less than four feet above high tide lines. By 2050, it expands to 6 million people living less than five feet above high tide levels.... Loading the dice, heat-trapping gasses from burning oil, coal and gas, melting polar caps and glaciers and warming the ocean."
Some balance was provided in the otherwise slanted report as Thompson cited "climate change skeptics" who "say you can't blame the rising oceans all on global warming." Cato Institute Senior Fellow Patrick Michaels explained: "The sea level rise caused by climate change is actually less than the sea level rise caused from land sinking, and we can't stop it."
On the January 31 Nightly News, Williams and Thompson similarly used the mild winter to push the global warming agenda, with Thompson even seeming to blame climate change for two deaths.
In contrast, back on November 1, the broadcast saw an early snowstorm as evidence of climate change, with Williams fretting: "Everybody out East said the same thing about this freak snowstorm, 'This kind of thing didn't used to happen. This never happened before.'"
Here is a full transcript of the March 14 report:
7:12PM ET TEASE:
BRIAN WILLIAMS: Still ahead here tonight as Nightly News continues, record highs across this country again today. But is it getting too warm generally? A warning tonight about a growing threat from the changing climate.
7:15PM ET SEGMENT:
WILLIAMS: You're looking at what is a very early start to the cherry blossom season in Washington, D.C. It's early, but it's beautiful. And a lot of people have hotel reservations for later in the year. And with temperatures across a lot of this country with 20 to 40 degrees above normal now, no surprise that the blossoms are out and blooming. National Park Service, by the way, has been forced to move up the date for the start of the official peak cherry blossom season.
This afternoon, the temperature in Chicago, Illinois, was the same as it was way down in Naples, Florida, a balmy 81 degrees. Much warmer weather can have a dark side, of course. And tonight there is a new projection that rising seas due to climate change could cause a whole lot of damage much sooner than anyone had previously thought. The report from our chief environmental affairs correspondent Anne Thompson.
AL ROKER: That is one angry Atlantic.
ANNE THOMPSON: The ferocious surge of the Atlantic powered by Hurricane Irene last August moved a lifeguard tower...
ROKER: Woah, look at that! That house is taking off.
THOMPSON: ...broke through a sea wall, and sent water rushing into the streets of New York's Long Beach. A scene that will become more commonplace, a new study says, because of rising sea levels caused by global warming. Benjamin Strauss of the non-profit group Climate Central, says the odds of a hundred-year flood happening by 2030 doubles for 2/3 of the places studied.
BENJAMIN STRAUSS: We found that once a once-a-100-year flood becomes a once-a-decade flood fastest in southern California, where we expect to see that within a couple of decades.
THOMPSON: Who's at risk? By 2030, the 5 million Americans living on coastal land less than four feet above high tide lines. By 2050, it expands to 6 million people living less than five feet above high tide levels. In New York City, the danger is not just to the low-lying areas where millions live, but to the very way people get around. The funnel-shaped New York harbor could worsen storm surges that could flood the city's vital subway system. Loading the dice, heat-trapping gasses from burning oil, coal and gas, melting polar caps and glaciers and warming the ocean. Measurements taken in Bermuda show 58 years of increases.
TONY KNAP [BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES FORMER DIRECTOR]: The temperature will be in red, there's more heat in the top couple of meters of the ocean than in the atmosphere.
THOMPSON: But climate change skeptics say you can't blame the rising oceans all on global warming.
PATRICK MICHAELS [CATO INSTITUTE SENIOR FELLOW]: The sea level rise caused by climate change is actually less than the sea level rise caused from land sinking, and we can't stop it.
THOMPSON: A future dependent on the ocean and threatened by it. Anne Thompson, NBC News, New York.
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It's sooner? Didn't Ted
Submitted by bretzysdude on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 1:17pm.
It's sooner? Didn't Ted Danson in 1990 say that because of global warming, the oceans would disappear in ten years?
I think Danson was screaming
Submitted by bassndude on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 1:39pm.
I think Danson was screaming about the oceans be devoid of life in 10 years. Could be wrong, but at any rate, all the sea life was supposed to be dead 20 years ago, according to Danson.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
That wasn't all Danson was screaming about back in 1990.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 1:45pm.
LOL.
SoL.....go to your room!
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 2:26pm.
That post needed a warning.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Damn SoL
Submitted by cocodrie on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 2:32pm.
I was just about to eat dinner. I guess I'll fast for sometime now.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Okay, sicko.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 3:20pm.
First, you need a warning on dat stuff, like blonde say, yo?!?
Second, is it a Name Dat Floater contest?
I'm going with ;
A - Michelle,
B - Whoopee, or (my favorite)
C- Buckwheat?
At least we know why Ted is praying for the tide to come waaaaaaay in. Maybe it will cover the sight of that up!!
Really SoL... I think I just threw up in my mouth!
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 3:55pm.
This is pure proof that celebrities are all on drugs!
Now that must be what Danson
Submitted by bassndude on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 4:20pm.
Now that must be what Danson was talking about that killed the oceans.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
Oh, I see........
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 1:25pm.
your "war on women" meme is blowing up in your face, so quick, switch back to the tired old BS of "Globull" warming. WEAK!!! Think they are showing a bit of desperation??
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
Recycling
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 4:07pm.
Man oh man. The Dims are reallyyyyyyyyyyyyy into recycling.
Say no more!
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 1:32pm.
. . . Climate Central has created a unique form of public outreach, informed by our own original research, . . .
Well, if that statement isn't a self-disqualifier, I don't know what is.
30 seconds of googling got me this...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 8:54am.
...Wikapedia page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Central
(Sorry. Links not working)
Please read the first paragraph.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Again? Really?
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 1:36pm.
Hurricanes are destructive. Who knew? (As a native Floridian, having lived through quite a few of them, I say this with my tongue firmly in my cheek).
Begrunt is correct, the War on Women is a loser, Panetta in Afghanistan is a loser, The Won's continuous lies about oil are a loser.....so we get to the old standby....Globull Warming.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Never though I'd see the day, ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 3:26pm.
... that we would have to disarm our own marines before letting the Secretary of Defense address them in a combat zone.
That shows a level of fear and paranoia never before seen in the USA. It's pretty common in totalitarian countries, but .....
Never mind. I'm beginning to understand the problem.
Non-profit?
Submitted by deadeyedan on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 2:24pm.
Maybe that should read more like "non-prophet".
Climate Central is where George (non-profit) Soros hid Heidi Cullen, the erstwhile Weather Channel climate guru who demanded that the American Meteorological Society strip the "Seal of Approval" from broadcast weathermen who did not concur with the Prophesy.
CLIMATEGATE (now I & II plus FAKEGATE) - the revelation that the pseudo-scientists at East Anglia University know just as much about the atmosphere as Harvard law professors know about the Constitution
Aaaaah. Great catch, dan!
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 2:38pm.
Turns out that she's not only employed by Climate Central -- she's the interim CEO.
I'm not surprised that the MSM uses this group as a source.
He said what?!
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 2:33pm.
Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams ominously warned viewers: "Much warmer weather can have a dark side, of course.
Racist!!
Tug, good catch, but ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 3:31pm.
... Global Warming (Cooling,Static, whatever) is going to have to get much worse faster if it beats the RBFSOB to the destruction of this country.
I don't think that an asteroid can beat this hemorrhoid president to the destruction of the planet!
What, me worry?
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 5:20pm.
According to the Mayans, the world ceases to exist after December this year.
Might be true...
Submitted by Rukus on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 3:25am.
If Barry get's re-elected in Nov. Shudder!
Every year long about
Submitted by cocodrie on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 2:38pm.
Every year long about March or so this global warming sets in and I have to break out my short pants until December.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
NY Harbor, long been a funnel - sea level rise isn't increasing
Submitted by Gary Hall on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 2:43pm.
Ah gee - thanks for the "new" news, Anne.
Did AGW create the "funnel-shaped NY harbor? The same "funnel-shaped" harbor which has funneled past storm surges into the city.
1821 HURRICANE
Reaching the City on September 3, 1821, the storm was one of the only hurricanes believed to have passed directly over parts of modern New York City. The tide rose 13 feet in one hour and inundated wharves, causing the East River to converge into the Hudson River across lower Manhattan as far north as Canal Street. However, few deaths were attributed to the storm because flooding was concentrated in neighborhoods with far fewer homes than exist today.
FTR - it is true that relative sea level is rising at a faster than the global clip. The difference would be because of the well understood land subsidence along this part of the Atlantic seaboard - and, notably around the New York Harbor. However, the rate of sea level rise here, has not been accelerating; rather, chugging along at the same clip of rise for the past 100 years. They are at risk, but not from AGW.
FTR - A couple weeks back, your's truly, once again made a call to NOAA - their sea-level monitoring/trend unit - and spoke at length with one of their scientists, an oceanographer, and he was dead clear in confirming NOAA's view that there is absolutely no evidence that in their 100 year + global sea-level trend records, of any increase in the rate of global sea level rise - zippo. Repeat - there is no acceleration in the rate of sea level, globally, even after the past supposed 70+ years of increasing CO2 emissions. Oh hum - wake me up when it starts, OK?
Also, of note, when I pushed him a bit on trying to be specific in separating out the period prior to the 1940's to that after, in regards to sea level rise - he jumped on the temperature issue (I'd indicated that "they say" was more warming after), saying that the earth has been in a solid warming cycle for about 150 years, and most of that was prior to 1940.
Those darn scientists.
(;~/ gary
Wait!! The seas are rising?
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 2:45pm.
I thought that Baracka stopped that when he was immaculated. I is so confused, now.
Warming
Submitted by NewLife56 on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 3:45pm.
I hope it is real..no more snow? YAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Ocean's are rising, stop the
Submitted by dscott on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 3:47pm.
Ocean's are rising, stop the presses, newsflash, the oceans stopped rising and now the trend is negative. SHOCK, an Obama campaign promise all Conservatives are glad king Canute kept!
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/files/2011_rel4/sl_ns_global.png
And yet CO2 kept rising? Now over 390 ppm
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
What's the problem here NBC, can't get your facts straight? The GAT (global average temp) trend has been negative for years, choosing either 1998 or 2005 or 2010 peaks still gets FALLING global temps unless you insist on a starting year like the 1970s ice age scare you were promoting back then. Choosing 1934 gets you a zero temperature trend. And you wonder why your credibility is dropping like a stone whenever you make such ridiculous statements.
There is propaganda and there is stupid, propaganda is only believed when the public has no other facts to judge the message in context. You look stupid when telling the public a message they know is factually WRONG. It's like Obama saying he doesn't have all the facts but then says "the police acted stupidly", you get laughed at. The MSM has all the credibility of Al Sharpton claiming a bunch of white guys gang raped Twana Brawley. By the way Al, you still haven't properly apologized to the nation for your bigoted elevation of race baiting when the allegations were shown to be false. I won't hold my breathe, the MSM will pull an Al Sharpton with AGW as well. The facts clearly show the trend in GAT has little to do with any trend in CO2 levels. Ocean levels were rising long before any claim of CO2 influence.
Who is the poster on here that is a physicist that completely
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 3:59pm.
discredits global alarming over and over again? First of all, shame on you as the libs would have it;)... Secondly, thanks for actually adding more peer reviewed statistics and facts that show how much a farce global alarming really is.
That would be hydrodyneDM
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 4:06pm.
One smart dude.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Yes, that's it thanks Blondie!
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 4:10pm.
*nm
De nada
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 4:17pm.
As I said, one smart dude. Doesn't have terminal linkitis, as did our old PopTech, but beautifully makes the case, nonetheless.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
And the shame was...
Submitted by Rukus on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 3:32am.
PT could dispute (link) AGW like no other. Too bad his PDS over-rode everything else. And yes, he was a link-o-saurus supreme. : )
The infamous CRU of the University of East Anglia . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 8:03pm.
. . . just recently published a report reluctantly conceding that there has been no global warming for 15 years. Fifteen -- years.
I believe also NL is one.
Submitted by dscott on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 4:07pm.
I believe also NL is one.
NBC Global Warming Alarmism alert
Submitted by needle on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 4:23pm.
Increased Global Warming Alarmism (GWA) can have a dark side, of course. And tonight there is a new projection that Brian William’s NBC Nightly News will have more and more extreme reports due to cherry picked information that could cause a whole lot of damage to liberals’ sanity much sooner than anyone had previously thought.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Al Gore Says He's Building an Ark
Submitted by HollyW on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 4:30pm.
Al Gore told MSNBC's Chris Matthews that he's dressing up as a priest so he can listen to confessions in third world countries. He also said he plans to build an ark because of the impending doom of global warming. http://www.thedailyrash.com/al-gore-becomes-a-priest-plans-to-build-ark
Ok tons of carbon, at dinner time...
Submitted by upcountrywater on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 4:49pm.
Hay if one wants to dine out like this, pay for it yourself and quit billing me for it.jpg
You Didn't Build That.
On Facebook once
Submitted by Shreve on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 4:53pm.
I made a comment about "When is global warming when you need it?" when it was down in the teens.
A liberal friend of mine commented "Climate Change doesn't affect the weather."
Now that it is warmer than normal, same friend said "This Climate Change is making my life miserable."
Oh, Noooooooo! A new reason to be alarmed!!!
Submitted by needle on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 4:55pm.
“PATRICK MICHAELS [CATO INSTITUTE SENIOR FELLOW]: The sea level rise caused by climate change is actually less than the sea level rise caused from land sinking, and we can't stop it.”
Oh, for Pete sake, thanks Patrick; now we are likely to start hearing from Al Gore’s sole mate:
Call in the US Army Corps of Engineers by the thousands – no, make that tens of thousands!
Quick, we must prop up sinking land here, there, everywhere!
Hurry, hurry!
Spare no expense!
Florida is sinking!!! Wait a minute, maybe that’s OK; but what about New York!!!!!!! OMG!!
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Global warming....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 5:14pm.
is the reason we here in the southern portion of the Demokratik Republik of Kalifornyastan are bracing for a "winter storm" this weekend, with snow levels expected down to 2000' altitude.
Global warming....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 5:14pm.
is the reason we here in the southern portion of the Demokratik Republik of Kalifornyastan are bracing for a "winter storm" this weekend, with snow levels expected down to 2000' altitude. (I live at 3200')
Hello from a fellow Kalifornian.....
Submitted by dyardley on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 6:34pm.
Cowboy, I live in Central Kalifornia and we've been promised rain for 3 days now. Sunny and beautiful right now. It would be funny, if we didn't need rain so badly. So, we're praying for rain, snow or whatever here. Hope you don't get tooooooo much snow.
Greetings from the "Peoples Republic of Los Angeles"....
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 7:04pm.
My meteorologist friend tells me this new storm will be a "March Miracle" due to the amount of rain he see's coming.......Lord knows we need it.....got to keep the LADWP Gestapo from raising the rates.....AGAIN!!!
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
Please keep the rain on the left coast
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 7:22pm.
I'm having a St. Patrick's Day party and hoping the weather is nice enough to hang outside. Especially since I've got some smokers coming and they'll need to go outside to smoke.
The Oceans are rising! … and I have proof!
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 5:24pm.
The results of my 40 year study:
- When I was about two years old my folks took me to the beach and walked me out into the water until it was up to my knees. I estimate the water was about 8” deep at my knee level.
- About 40 years later, I was on the beach and walked out into the water until it reached my knees. The water depth (at knee level) was now approximately 22 inches!
Conclusion: In the 40 years between the two equal measurements, the water level of ocean raised by 14 inches.
Read it and weep!
- Grump :o)
These predictions are as accurate as tea leaves & palm reading.
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 8:43pm.
Perhaps Anne "Panty Wad" Thompson should try getting a climate prediction from a "learned" practitioner of phrenology next, assuming said practitioner could read over the point on top of her head.
"A scene that will become
Submitted by Snappy on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 8:55pm.
"A scene that will become more commonplace, a new study says, because
of rising sea levels caused by global warming."for the past 50 years we have been building in floodplains and below sea/water level behind crumbling sea walls and dikes in disrepair.FIFY
I do my part to stop greenhouse gases.
Submitted by wingnut55 on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 1:07am.
I am with Pat Sajak in holding my breath several times a day to control the CO2 coming from my body. If we all do our part we can save those rich people's property from being covered by the sea.