Sheesh! Must every news story include a leftwing agenda?
Yahoo! News published an article by Diego Urrdaneta of AFP about the 100th anniversary of Miami Beach. However, Urrdaneta could not restrain himself from merely including facts about the anniversary of Miami Beach. He had to leave us with the swan song about how global warming (or "climate change" as they now call it when the warming didn't happen) is causing the sea level to rise. Here is the first part of the story before it descends into global warming demagoguery:
Miami Beach (United States) (AFP) - Thousands of tourists and residents basking in the hot sun filled streets of the art deco district of Miami Beach to celebrate its 100th birthday on Thursday.
"Happy Birthday, Miami Beach," yelled one of the party promoters through a loudspeaker from one of the bars along Ocean Drive -- the seaside avenue lined with hotels, bars and restaurants. It was closed to traffic all day for the festivities.
People strolled about sipping mojitos or beer, riding bikes or walked to the beach in swim trunks to enjoy a gala concert featuring opera singer Andrea Bocelli, Gloria Estefan and ex-Bee Gee Barry Gibb as a week of celebration came to a close.
The city rose up 100 years ago as a group of investors bought up land and turned it into a playground for the wealthy. It's now a magnet for tourists -- 14 million last year.
So how does the article end? Perhaps with a bit more about the history of Miami Beach? Nope. It goes completely off-topic to subject us to a lecture on the horrors of a sea level rise that takes place in computer projections:
But the city is also looking to the future. City hall has organized for Friday a conference on rising water levels as a result of global warming. It is one of the main challenges facing this resort which is just 1.2 meters (four feet) above sea level.
The Florida coast has already seen 12 inches (30 centimeters) of sea rise since 1870, according to 2014 figures from the World Resources Institute.
Another nine to 24 inches are anticipated by 2060.
Miami Beach residents are commonly seen wading through knee-deep waters to get to their homes and businesses during high tides and floods.
Officials are investigating the use of tidal control valves and new water pumps to improve drainage as the authorities try to find long-term solutions to keep the city going.
A 30 centimeter rise in the sea level since 1870? Gee, we all know how extremely accurate that 1870 instrumentation was for measuring every silly centimeter. Another instrument would also be cameras since the beachfront of the Fountainbleau hotel which has been there over 60 years is at about as wide in 1954 as it is now when you look at the photos. As for the anticipated sea level rise. So far only observed in computer projections.
The readers themselves noticed the annoying intrusion of the global warming agenda into the story:
Right, the idiot who wrote this story just HAD to get the Big Lie in about Global Worming.
How did a story about Miami's 100th anniversary become a story about "global warming".
If anyone bothered to fact check this article; they would find that sea level rise world wide and in Florida has remained remarkably constant for the past 300 years. "Another nine to 24 inches" of sea level rise by 2060 is based on predictions that the rate of rise is going to suddenly increase. This is possible but not probable.
12 inches of sea rise since 1870, I wonder whose butt they pulled that figure from? Sea rise or settlement of land mass? This area has been developed since the 20's. The Rockfellers, Kennedys's and anyone with money has had homes in the palm beach area for close to 100 years. Some of these places have piers that are a 100 years old, Funny, none of them are underwater. Call me a naysayer, but at least I have common sense.
Oh no! A story about Miami Beach, and they couldn't resist talking about global warming/sea rise eh?
Exit Question: Will "Rising Sea Levels" be redefined as "Sea Level Change" if no rise is observed in a few years?
