Title: 3 Feet Higher and Rising

3 Pictures on Cover misleading

Chaos?

JB- weatherman

“Much of what you have seen is Propoganda?

Pg 19: “No single event can be attributed to Global Warming”

"Just as no Lung Cancer can be attributed to a single pack of cigarettes"        

Students ignored

50-150 yr impacts after pollution stops

MARA – Penn State-2000 study

Sea Level rise 4”-1’3” by 2030

Sea Leve rise 1.5’-3.5’ by 2095

Pg 19 Quote: IF MAJOR ICE SHEETS MELT, THEN YEAH- I’m PRETTY SURE MOST OF DELMARVA WOULD BE LOST” Penn Stae’s Brent Yarnal

Quoted a Baltimore Grocery Cashier “Severe Weather might be Global Warming.  The serious debate over Global Warming is over”

ry Cashier “Severe Weather might be Global Warming.  The serious debate over Global Warming is over”

William Gray and Max Mayfiel

d both testified to congress that Katrina and 2005 season were part of cycle, not Global Warming!

Picture and title sounds affirmative by misleading!

Source- Who are they? Why not exlained that image is based on Cat 2 hurricane and 3 Ft. Sea Level rise in 2095? worse case scenario?

1m = 3’3”  Ocean City boardwalk is higher than that during high tide.

Tom Hopkins organized the event and he takes offense to notion that chaos broke out.

Why not labeled METEOROLOGIST?

Out of context.  Referred to Tom’s relevance to Isabel.  He agreed with me!

My quote, but no credited!

Horrible analogy.  Lung Caner is very rare- people did not live long enough to get it 100 years ago. 

Students were part of debate and enjoyed it.

True- NO MAGIC BUTTON

Model errors? 7 Day forecasts are not perfect! 

Wide Rage of potential water levels?

Alley (hidden in body of story) “Probably take Centuries” to melt ice sheet

When did a grocery clerk become the benchmark of consensus?

Hasn’t Severe Weather existed before?

Dust bowl in 1930s?

False Perception can be based on limited data:

Last June: Picture taken in White Marsh, Federalsburg, or Montgomery County.

If someone was visiting for a week and took pictures, they would say that this place always floods!

2002 was the driest on record through August

2003 was wettest year on record breaking 114 yr old record.  So what about 1889?

2006- Driest March on Record

But in 1910-

2nd driest March followed by 2nd wettest April. Both #1 at the time.

Analagy- Last 10 of 30 years of Hurricanes- ignores mid 30s-mid 50s

Small data set can miss larger cycle.  Yes 2005 was warmest and 2006 1st 6 months  are warmest,

10 of 15 warmest years since 1990