Question:
Is this picture a good example of Global Warming propaganda from the Associated Press?
Maxx
2013-06-16 13:48:56 UTC
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The Associated Press is pushing the Global Warming agenda again today with the story linked below. The photo provided for the story leads you to believe that sea level rise is the cause for the submerged highway.

The displayed part of the caption for the photo states: "Sea level rise projections show Bangkok could be..."
http://news.yahoo.com/beyond-nyc-other-places-adapting-climate-too-105538665.html

But --- if you click the "MORE" button, you see the photo has NOTHING to do with "Sea Level Rise".

The real reason is revealed as "water run-off from northern provinces, where dams failed to contain unusually heavy rains." Also note, it's not a current photo but a file photo from Oct. 2011.

How many people will be fooled by this picture that has nothing to do with sea levels?

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Seven answers:
Sagebrush
2013-06-16 22:29:35 UTC
Ha! Ha! Climate Change officially takes thirty years. Ha! Ha! The author of that piece wants us all to believe that those people lined up there for thirty years so they could drown and lose their cars to climate change.



Looks like it fooled Antarctica though. Shows that greenies are not too bright. I saw one person on here write that those Maldivians are all going to drown because of the rising seas. Ha! Ha! What, do they have their feet nailed to the ground? If water rises, smart people move to higher ground. Greenies just sit there and cry for government help. Waa! Waa! Waa!



Notice the article mentioned that (gasp) some of the Netherlands was under sea level. And they only spend 1% of their money on dike maintenance. Gasp. Gasp. These poor paranoid greenies live in constant fear. Or maybe they are just upset that San Francisco spends more money on dikes. Greenies are irrational.



Then Antarctica points out that a house really wasn't Al Gore's house. Is that really as bad as Al Gore displaying a drowning polar bear stuck on an iceberg, not mentioning that polar bears can swim?



Then Antarctica doesn't believe the sea level isn't rising. Remember, the greenies, particularly Al Gore predicted that Manhattan would be under water by 1999.



Quote by Sir John Houghton, pompous lead editor of first three IPCC reports: “If we want a good environmental policy in the future we’ll have to have a disaster.”



And if there is no disaster they will make one up. A flood is a sea level rise. They can't comprehend that they are two different things.
2013-06-16 20:29:40 UTC
There is nothing wrong with the article Maxx. Are you saying that such sea level rise can't happen? Unless you either have a crystal ball or a computer model that actually works, you can not know that such sea level rise can't happen. And before you start talking about God's promise to Noah, God promised Noah that He wouldn't flood the whole Earth. He didn't say that there would never be any floods. Do you see anything in the article about building dykes around the top of Mt. Everest?







Of course not. Sea level rise is something that hasn't happened yet. Where would you think they would get such a photo? With Al Gore's time machine?







Mike L



< warmons complain about charts from years past skeptics post links to.>



You mean like videos of graphs taped to see-saws?

Or graphs with cherry-picked dates or geographical regions?
antarcticice
2013-06-16 19:35:16 UTC
Oh yearn, it's always propaganda this or conspiracy theory that with you guys and never any rational thought or evidence to back the empty claims,

What do you have here, if you actually read the story a real story on the effects of AGW on countries like the Netherlands which is to a fair degree already below sea level.

As even you admit if you read the caption it states this photo is due to local flooding not AGW so what is your propaganda, the suggestion that deniers can't read.

This is a common practice in modern media in many subjects where an actual image is not available they use something from a similar event.

All you have here is yet another example of the weak case deniers are trying to prop up by looking at minutia, while steadfastly trying to ignore the solid evidence coming from scientists. Even sillier given that apart from blogs the entire denier case is built on BS from fox news and it's sister media groups. The BS about "cooling consensus by scientists in the 70's" is built on just a couple of media stories, while the actual published scientific papers of the time tell a completely different story, but deniers try to ignore that as well.

Personally if someone is to lazy to read a simple caption then perhaps they should not be making fools of themselves by pretending they understand the issues.



Just a week ago I saw one of the uninformed (who has answered here) claim sea level was not rising at all, which is clearly not true, he, of course had nothing to back his claim, just as his comments about the Philippines seem to be by someone who's never actually been there, but that's denial for you.



Sea level is rising, that is a fact

http://climate.nasa.gov/key_indicators#seaLevel

It has in fact risen (since 2011) above the gradient seen since the early 1990's, even as deniers make absurd claims of it stopping.



Global warming relies on scientific data and scientists and if media sources are ignored that will have little effect on the science, but of course it would remove much of the the so called evidence denier's rely on, so are you you really want to make these sorts of claims.



I seem to recall a picture in a denier blog, of a house claimed to be Gores new sea side home, with no text under it, to correct any false impression, in fact some deniers still try to use that image, even though it proved to be fake long ago, but then of course I've never seen any denier admit to that either, deniers don't do that they just move on to the next lie and after a period of time try to recycle the older lies, which to me demonstrates they have no real interest in science or truth or facts.

A point frankly you just keep reinforcing with this sort of pointless nonsense.
?
2016-10-20 10:15:57 UTC
nicely, no longer even Al Gore is controlled through Al Gore. it fairly is an alien conspiracy, a conspiracy that is going as much as the optimal stages of the Intergalactic Robotron Confederation placed on Planet Mexico city, seem it up in case you do no longer believe me..
2013-06-16 15:09:50 UTC
Its propaganda and the warmons complain about charts from years past skeptics

post links to.



And the New Zealand greenies are jumping off the global warming bus .
?
2013-06-16 14:08:25 UTC
Of course the AP is pushing the issue. Every seemingly catastrophic weather event is now a news story. It's easy to communicate to people who just sit and watch the news without venturing any farther than their own city. Snapshots of the world is the only way the AP can get a reaction to their story.
Kano
2013-06-16 15:43:01 UTC
Judging by the comments, not many people were, interesting to note how public opinion is changing.


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