One of Gore’s key contentions is that climate change is increasing the frequency of severe storms and causing ocean levels to rise, thus endangering coastal communities like Tangier Island.
That’s when James Eskridge, Tangier Island’s mayor, realized he’d heard enough of Gore’s nonsense.
I’m a commercial crabber and I’ve been working the Chesapeake Bay for 50+ years. I have a crab house business out on the water and the water level is the same as it was when the place was built in 1970,” Eskridge said. “I’m not a scientist, but I am a keen observer and if sea level rises are occurring, why am I not seeing signs of it?”
His point left Gore dumbfounded. How dare an ordinary citizen who knows all about living on an island challenge the great guru of the climate change hoax!
Recognizing that his sea level discussion was going nowhere, Gore shifted to the topic of severe storms.
Have [the storms] increased any?” Gore asked.
Not really,” Tangier’s mayor responded.
Ouch. That had to hurt. However, Eskridge did acknowledge erosion has been eating away at the island, but that is the result of the natural force of waves and storms, as it has been for centuries.
Eskridge noted the town has asked the Trump administration for help in building a sea wall to stop further erosion.
According to CBS News, Tangier Island has lost 66 percent of its land to erosion since 1850. Inconveniently, that was 15 years before the discovery of oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania. So the erosion can’t be blamed on fossil fuels.
Further cementing his reputation as a real loser, Gore must have suffered through the weekend, when his new movie, “An Inconvenient Sequel” thoroughly bombed at the box office. It came in 15th place, earning just under $1 million.
What the misguided environmentalist, moneygrubbing Gore fails to consider is people have a lot more things they’d like to do in the middle of summer than go inside to a theater and listen to him preach.
Source: Daily Caller
The Ocean floor is not flat so it’s not the same as adding water into a tub. Different areas around the world will be effected as things progressively get worse.
Except if you throw a bunch of c**p into the bottom of a bathtub, making it uneven, the water raises proportionately across the entire surface area of the tub not just over the areas you put c**p. Fluid dynamics 101,
Water is funny. Always finds level. So the sea is not higher in some areas, due to underwater landscape. Why it’s called sea level. The Maldive Islands look just the same as 50 years ago. You do not understand science. You are just what they want. Ignorant fools are easy to lead.
I guess you believe in water mountains too.. Water is self levelling .If the level is rising it will rise everywhere!! The propaganda has worked well on you..
What??? Your as full of it as he is…
Are you so stupid that you don’t realize water seeks its own level, regardless of the shape of the “container./” This has to be the most ignorant thing I’ve read this week.
Blah, blah, blah
Actually, the first oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859, not 19 years after 1850 as this article states…..
All you have to do to become a millionaire is get 1 million sheeple to buy your BS product for a $1.50.
Out of a billion people that’s not hard to do. I believe in climate change, you bet, it’s called a cycle.
The earth changes every day, Only man would be so arrogant to think that he is the major cause.