Tar Baby Series
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From left to right. Mangrovia, Surge, Plume, Water Level Marker.
The Mean Prediction of water level rise as 4.9 feet (1.5 metres) was taken from reports & articles by; the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), Dr. Orrin Pilkey (Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, Director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines (PSDS) at Duke University), Department of Water Engineering, UNESCO-IHE Delft, The Netherlands, The United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009, Martin Vermeer of the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland and Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. The latter two climatologists published a study in December that projected a rise of 0.75m to 1.9m by 2100 which was retracted from the journal by February 2010 due to inconclusive data regarding ice sheet melting. The apparent inconclusively of this data was arrived at by the illegal hacking of emails at the climate-change research center in England in Nov. 2009 and subsequent online distribution in an attempt to also suggest exaggerated findings and collusion amongst the world’s leading climate change scientists. Jeffrey Sachs, Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University is also a special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals. He claims that the current state of ‘Climate War’ is fueled by the same skeptics - individuals and organizations that firstly sided with the tobacco industry to discredit the science linking smoking and lung cancer, and who secondly tried to discredit evidence that sulfur oxides from coal-fired power plants cause acid rain, and who thirdly said that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) do not cause the depletion of the ozone. Unsurprisingly these ‘skeptics’ who reputedly use The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page as their free speech platform for their free market and economic aims, also once claimed that second hand smoke did not cause cancer.
‘Tar Baby’ is derived from “The Wonderful Tar Baby Story”, the second of the Uncle Remus Plantation stories where Br’er Fox uses Tar-Baby (a doll made of tar and turpentine) to cunningly entrap Br’er Rabbit.
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References: IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change www.ipcc.ch Dr. Orrin Pilkey (Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, Director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines (PSDS) at Duke University) www.coastalcare.org and the book, The Rising Sea - Orrin H. Pilkey and Rob Young Department of Water Engineering, UNESCO-IHE Delft, The Netherlands www.springerlink.com The United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009 www.unep.org www.unfccc.int Martin Vermeer of the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland and Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany www.guardian.co.uk Jeffrey Sachs, Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University is also a special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals www.guardian.co.uk/profile/jeffreysachs www.guardian.co.uk/environment/hacked-climate-science-emails
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