The September issue of National Geographic was devoted to the idea that we are facing a disastrous flooding in the near future. They had the bad taste to illustrate this with a picture of the Statue of Liberty with the sea reaching up to her waist some 70 m above the present sea level. This is a complete misconception of physical possibilities in nature itself.
The firm scientific facts fully to dismiss all such flooding ideas have been presented by Professor Don J. Easterbrook last week on WUWT, and I don’t need to add further facts.
There is another side of this tragedy, and that is the question of how and on what grounds a top-magazine can be fooled to disgrace itself so very much. The IPCC and its supporting boy-scouts seem totally to have lost contact with reality in their claims of sea level rise and disastrous flooding events of low-lying islands and coastal areas.
Claims of a sea level rise by 2100 in the order of 1-2 m or more are simply impossible because it would upset all knowledge and all observational facts we have achieved over the entire time of scientific investigations.
In the article in National Geographic references were given to three scientists who were said to be responsible for the “facts” presented. Those persons are:
Philippe Huybrechts (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Richard S. Williams Jr (Woods Hole Research Centre, US)
James C. Zachos (University of California, US)
They should all know better than to allow the falsification of facts and the discarding of all accumulated knowledge in geology and physics.