Of course, if warmists said nothing much bad will happen as we FINALLY completely emerge ftom the "Little Ice Age" , and good things will happen. More rainfall from the increased water vapor, temp. moderated by increased cloud cover, bigger crop yields due to uincreased availability of CO2 , then asking for hundreds of millions to study climate would be greeted by snickers from Congress.
Claim that unless you give them BILLIONS as the WORLD HAS A FEVER, and WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE unless we get MORE BILLIONS may be too much to resist for many.
Al Gore saw it as a wealth creation device and he's now worth something north of $90 million.
I have spent long hours looking at , reading, and thinking about the issue, and I've nutshelled it in my post.
http://www.bayoffundytourism.com/tides/
on the right , check the erosion on the rocks at high tide. If anywhere, a rising sea level would show, and it does not.
Peter, I live on what could be called the beginning of the Bay of Fundy, our largest river in places has mud flats that span over a mile to deep water on both sides of the river.
I have been out Kayaking and had the tide go out so fast one minute I had 6 feet of water under me, 200 yards to shore and paddle as fast as I could I still got caught on the flats.
There may be 3-4 other places where this does occur in the world, but few Americans can imagine that scientific act even when they see it with their own eyes.
For the old timers that were around in the early 1930's a rumor began that the government had decided to build an electric plant using tidal power. Back then they figured harnessing all that power could supply enough power to light up the east coast down to North Carolina west to Philly. This was naturally about 70 years ago.
All work stopped on that project when WW2 began, the story goes all machinery was place in storage and the workers and designers, engineers were sent to Portsmouth N.H. to build Submarines and to Bath Maine to build big man of wars.
The rumor is that every few years the government checks on the stored machinery that is now falling apart but the blue prints still exist.
It is told that after the war we could not resurrect the program due to the objections of the power industry.
All tall story's perhaps, but I have heard these story's all my life.
BTW, the River that is the boundary between Maine and New Hampshire was not created by natural acts. There was at one time a good size island in the mouth of the river that at that time Navy or civil engineers decided to blow up that island to allow larger deep water draft boats into the harbor.
The whole darn island was blown sky high and something happend no one could forsee, The tides came rushing in at great speed, low tide caused some areas to become complete mud flats.
My mom still lives on our ancestral home on the river where it narrows to about 2 and 1/2
foot ball fields or less and on a nice day at a full moon time, we all enjoy sitting on her front lawn and getting much fun watching as craft try to buck the out going tide. We place bets on how long any one craft will stand still with their engines going full bore ahead---most fun for us locals that know the river.
Super tankers go right by the house with the tide and those behemoths are really moving.
My river is perhaps the 3 rd. fastest navigational river in the country, all from taking out that island that acted as a cork to controll billions upon billions of tons of water that came in or out every 6 hours.
Heading up the coast into Maine because of the configuration of the land and sea bottom, one will find miles of deep water mooring for their boats----Then suddenly when one gets to your neck of the woods one cannot believe their eyes,
At low tide docks on stilts are 15-20 feet in the air and mud flats as far as the eye can see'
I have heard storeys about the wealthy at one time finding it fun to take out horse drawn carrages onto the flats to race and the tide came in so fast the horses could not out run the tide.
I can believe it, I have been to the bay and seen how that could happen.
I believe we need to solve some of our power problems with tidal power's hoe it works all my life and I believe that power is is the strongest and renewable power source we have----no problem with disposable after effects, all ways there like clock work.