Bleeding Edge

Human industry, Civilization, Automobiles, Air Travel, and Flatulating Cows — all contribute to some serious global warming, and that in turn according to the United Nations Climate Organization, has caused the 3.7mm Sea Level Rise, that we apparently experienced over the last years.

Apparently, climate change is making the seas rise faster than ever, and this appears to be what the UN wants to warn us about so that we can change our lives around and start wearing a hair shirt while flogging ourselves for our sins on the way to till the fields by ourselves without the benefit or assistance of any cows, bulls, draft horses, mules, or even donkeys, because all of these beasts fart a whole lot of methane out the back end and that causes sea level rising…

On an aside António Guterrez, Secretary-General of the United Nations allowed men to draft their wives and place them under the yoke so that they pull the plow, reasoning that large human barnyard animals are better suited for this job, since the cows flatulence is a pathogen for our climate.

This the UN chief, had said after he had just warned the world that last years’ sea level rise had hit an unprecedented 3.7 millimeters. Apparently, the sea levels across the world are rising faster than ever, according to the United Nations that has warned us, that we urgently need to increase our action to stop dangerous climate change.

In a report released on Thursday, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a UN agency, painted a dire picture of all the key indicators of global warming.

The last four years were the warmest on record, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are at record levels and rising, and a global average sea level rise of 3.7 millimetres in 2018 outstripped the average annual increase over the past three decades.

The findings in the group’s annual State of the Climate report will bolster efforts by António Guterres, the UN secretary-general, to make governments commit to more ambitious carbon cuts at a landmark summit in September.

“There is no longer any time for delay,” wrote Guterres in a foreword to the report.

Last year was the fourth warmest on record, bringing the global temperature 1°C warmer on average than before the industrial revolution.

The WMO Press Release is available here, the actual report is available here.

Of course the report predicts more rapid sea level rise in the future. From page 16 of the report:

Over the period January 1993 to December 2018, the average rate of rise was 3.15 ± 0.3 mm yr-1, while the estimated acceleration was 0.1 mm yr-2.

If the UN estimate is correct, starting from 3.15mm per year this would result in a sea level rise of around:

d = vt + 0.5at2
d = 3.15 x 80 + 0.5 x 0.1 x 802
d = 572mm or just under 2ft of sea level rise by the end of the century.
If this rate of sea level rise per year continues, our children’s children might have to deal with 2ft of additional sea level by the end of this century.

Unlike others, I’m not immediately afraid of what the Green New Deal would do to the economy and our government. After all, this isn’t going to pass — not today, not any time soon certainly, but after reading the Green New Deal, I’m mostly afraid of not being able to get through this with a straight face, so I write today to you, because I want to consider the Green New Deal with the seriousness it deserves.

The Cold War as we all know, was won without firing a shot, but overcoming Communism in the 20th century is the way to kill the Green New Deal while overcoming climate change in the 21st century, hopefully without firing shots at each other…

Yours,
Dr Churchill

PS:

Talking about the weather… can be rather dangerous these days amongst the fools all around and especially inside the UN…