The Real Threat

Our Doom Is Sure

Catastrophism is a peculiar state of mind which sees the end of life as we know it drawing near.  Whilst the phobia is certain that the end is coming, the precise form of the threat can change.

In the 1970's Paul Ehrlich was warning us that overpopulation was going to destroy the planet.  The decade before that, Rachel Carson was solemnly declaring in Silent Spring that DDT was going to poison us all.  Nevil Shute was sketching out nuclear Armageddon in his dystopian novel, On the Beach. And then, in the eighties, there was the threat looming of a new Ice Age which would devastate the planet and see us all off to frozen graves.  But by the end of the next decade in the nineties the end of life as we knew it would come about through global warming.  The planet was going to cook to death.  And, of course, there was the multi-decadal threat from space asteroids hitting earth.

Now a new catastrophic threat is emerging.
  We have to consider the impact of lowering sea levels and the devastating effect it will have on coastal life and national economies.  Imagine all those wharves and boat ramps terminating on dry land, in some cases hundred of metres from the sea, even during high spring tides.  Think of all those ocean liners and container vessels stranded far from berths and wharves.

Yes, it is coming--and no-one is prepared.  Small Pacific island states, once thought doomed to inundation from rising sea levels due to melting polar ice caps, are going to have to cope with empty lagoons due to falling sea levels.  Their societal structures and cultural patterns will be destroyed.  These are amongst the many minatory implications of a recent NASA study proving that Antarctic ice, far from shrinking, is growing spectacularly.  More and more sea water is being "removed" from the oceans due to its transformation into ice.  Sea levels are dropping.

Antarctica is growing not shrinking, according to the latest study from NASA. Furthermore, instead of contributing to rising sea levels, the still-very-much-frozen southern continent is actually reducing them by 0.23 mm per year.

The study – by an organization not hitherto noted for playing down environmental scares – will come as a major blow climate alarmists.  For decades, they have cited Antarctica as one of the bellwethers of global warming catastrophe and have claimed – as the IPCC’s most recent Assessment Report did – that its land ice mass was slowly melting into the sea.

But the satellite measurements used in the latest NASA report tell a different story. Unlike previous studies – many largely based on guesswork because the continent is so vast and inhospitable, meaning that data is extremely limited – they use satellite altimeters to calculate changes in the surface height of the ice. What they show is that the amount of ice lost by glaciers collapsing into the sea has been exceeded by the gain in ice mass from accumulated snow.

According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008.

James Delingpole
Breitbart London

And what about the North Pole?  It has been long predicted by "experts" that the North Pole would be ice free by 2015.  Not so fast. 

 National Snow and Ice Data Centre

Arctic ice is making a comeback as well.  The foreshores of the globe are consequently under great threat.  It will be a catastrophe like none other.

Without a moment's delay, we must set up a UN panel to study the risks and dangers of global foreshore exposure which will change the way we live forever.   Help!