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How can I tell there's something amiss about Globull Warmering?
Florida history.
First we have the miracle of Castillo de San Marcos. It's widely painted and photographed. Despite the "rise of sea levels" all of the paintings and photographs show pretty much the same water levels. If I can't tell sea level apart from the tides, there's no measurable rise in the sea level. More damning is you can see where high tide is or will be and it's the same, for centuries.
Second we have the famous Florida orange.
Citrus farming in Florida used to range all the way up to the Georgia border. Now it doesn't begin until well south of Tampa.
What happened?
Frost. Frost ruins citrus crops. If it was getting warmer, old orange groves would be viable again.
Looking at the weather map and where the frost is expected tonight, no oranges to my immediate north.
Yeah, the cash crop on the East Coast of Florida used to be pineapples, until it got too cold to grow them. They were replaced by orange groves going all the way up to the FL-GA border. Then, from 1974-1976, frosts destroyed groves from the FL-GA border all the way down to just above Orlando.
ReplyDeleteUsed to be depressing driving up the Turnpike to see nothing but dead grove after dead grove. Except when they replaced the dead groves with housing.
Just locally, just south of Gainesville and Micanopy on 441 was a place that had a tower so you could climb up it and look at the vast groves while your parents were buying local citrus products.
All gone.
The biggest indicator that Global Warming is bupkis? Look where all the rich and elite are buying houses... Like Barky the lightbringer. Both in Hawaii and in Martha's vinyard. On the water, just feet above high tide.
Another thing...if Global Warming is really raising the level of the oceans, wouldn't that mean that areas of the sea that are dangerous or impassable due to reefs would become safe to cross?
ReplyDeleteOne would think so.
DeleteThen there's all the Pacific Islanders who say the ocean is the same height it's always been since their ancestors sailed to the island.