by frog
This is amusing.
National Party blogmeister David Farrar called out Labour MP Charles Chauvel for this Red Alert post, in which Chauvel says:
My aunts’ home in Tahiti, 6m from the high tide line, is no less likely to be washed away by rising sea levels than it was last year. Millions of people in their position in developing countries are no more able to afford to mitigate or adapt to the effects of human-induced climate change than they were in December last year.
Farrar’s response:
If that rate kept up, Charles’ auntie’s place will get swept away in the year 3000. Now regardless of sea level change, Tahiti is also sinking or subsiding at around 25 cm every 100 years. So in fact around 2700 or so it might get hairy.
Of course by then it will be 18 generations or so on from Charles and his aunt.
The problem for Farrar is that Chauvel was obviously talking about 6m horizontally, not vertically!
Cue in embarrassing backdown and obfuscation on the foreshore and beachfront slope in update to Farrar’s post.
Published in Environment & Resource Management by frog on Wed, December 1st, 2010
Tags: Charles Chauvel, climate change, climate cranks, david farrar, sea level
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
As with many debates, it seems that extremist views tend to stick in the public psyche. Many of the cold hard facts get swept away by the radicals. Putting ones head in the sand is no way to resolve it. Kia-ora
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Of course all this depends on whether the human race will SURVIVE by 3000!! We do not even know whether we will make it till 2100!
Regards,
Shruti N.
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Perhaps Charles Chauvel should have got started on ocean acidification, given the importance to our economy of our fisheries. At least the climate change deniers can’t argue (much) that our CO2 emissions aren’t affecting the oceans.
Trevor.
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