grodscorp@grods.comWill somebody just slap this guy?
 | Posted by The Editor on Thursday 21 February 2008, 5:28 pm Categories: Environment, Media Tags: Tags: AndrewBolt, ClimateChange, dikes, dykes, Venice |
I didn’t think Andrew Bolt could gobsmack me anymore, being largely desensitised as I am to his drivel, but I was terribly wrong. I’m gobsmacked that has just sunk to new intellectual lows with this amazing distortion of facts.
ABC climate alarmist Robyn Williams last year predicted global warming could make the seas rise 100 metres by just the end of the century. Since he spoke, the seas should have risen 1 metre by his calculations, and drowned low-lying cities like Venice.
But, good golly:
No gondola rides were on offer in Venice on Tuesday as the canal city known for its struggle with ever-rising water levels was instead left high and dry by an exceptionally low tide.
Experts predicted that by Tuesday afternoon water would be 70 centimetres (28 inches) below sea level after a record 80 centimetres below was set on Monday, the ANSA news agency reported… The lowest level reached before Monday’s record was minus 77 in 2005.
The exceptionally low tides in Venice were caused by a nearby low pressure system. They’ve happened before; they’ll happen again. Venice is also plagued by floods (the last as recently as three months ago), so severe that the Italian government is building a huge series of underwater dikes (walls, that is — not the kind that Bolta has in his private video collection.) What Bolta’s getting so worked up about is a natural variance that has nothing to do with the theory of human-induced climate change that he is so, so desperately trying to disprove.
But never let facts get in the way of a good old distortion, hey?
GrodsThink Ep.29 (26/8/08)
