Sea Level Lies
Since President Donald Trump announced his intent to withdraw the United States from the globalist-spawned Paris agreement, climate alarmists have gone into apoplectic apocalyptic tailspin. After the president’s June 1 announcement, actor/activist Leonardo DiCaprio lamented that “today, our planet suffered.” Comedienne Bette Midler labeled Trump a “destructive megalomaniac.” Filmmaker Michael Moore tweeted that “Trump just committed a crime against humanity,” while billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer spat, “The Trump Administration has just committed assault and battery on the future of the American people. There can be no excuse for this willful crime.”
Some are even calling for his impeachment over his stated intent to keep his campaign promise to the American people. Writing for the Huffington Post, Marjorie Cohn accused the president of committing a “High Crime.” This professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law said Trump’s move threatens “international peace and security” and the “very foundations of civilization.”
If that sounds slightly to the Chicken Little extreme, keep in mind that these radicals blame man-made climate change for increases in violent storms, farmland destruction, food shortages, floods, drought, heat waves, blizzards, insect-borne disease, and species extinction. For example, in 2005 the journal Science argued that “global data indicate a 30-year trend toward more frequent and intense hurricanes.” Happily, reality proved otherwise. No Category 4 or 5 hurricanes have affected the United States since 2005. Katrina was a Category 3 storm when she slammed into poorly protected Louisiana that year. (According to NASA, hurricanes are classified by wind speed, with Category 3 winds “similar, or close, to the serving speed of professional tennis players.”) New Orleans was set up for disaster, not from man-made climate change, but thanks to the federal government’s absurd insistence on developing residential areas in low-lying swamp land, while for decades neglecting necessary, Congress-sanctioned levee improvement.
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