THE NOT SO FINAL COUNTDOWN: Sea levels around NYC could surge up to 13 inches in 2030s due to climate change: state study.

Sea levels surrounding New York City are expected to rise at least 6 to 9 inches in the 2030s and potentially up to 13 inches in some areas due to climate change, according to state projections.

The assessment done by the state Department of Environmental Conservations also claims that sea levels in the lower Hudson River could swell by 23 inches in the 2050s and up to 45 inches in the 2080s.

“Sea level rise is one of the most direct and observable effects of climate change in New York and DEC is required by law to develop science-based sea level rise projections to guide decision making and permitting in the areas most at risk,” the DEC said in a statement.

Flashback: Quick Reminder: Nobody at ABC Personally Takes Their Global Warming Doomsday Predictions Seriously, Either.

New York City underwater? Gas over $9 a gallon? A carton of milk costs almost $13? Welcome to June 12, 2015. Or at least that was the wildly-inaccurate version of 2015 predicted by ABC News exactly seven years ago. Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015.

The segment included supposedly prophetic videos, such as a teenager declaring, “It’s June 8th, 2015. One carton of milk is $12.99.” (On the actual June 8, 2015, a gallon of milk cost, on average, $3.39.) Another clip featured this prediction for the current year: “Gas reached over $9 a gallon.” (In reality, gas costs an average of $2.75.)

On June 12, 2008, correspondent Bob Woodruff revealed that the program “puts participants in the future and asks them to report back about what it is like to live in this future world. The first stop is the year 2015.”

As one expert warns that in 2015 the sea level will rise quickly, a visual shows New York City being engulfed by water. The video montage includes another unidentified person predicting that “flames cover hundreds of miles.”

Then-GMA co-anchor Chris Cuomo appeared frightened by this future world. He wondered, “I think we’re familiar with some of these issues, but, boy, 2015? That’s seven years from now. Could it really be that bad?”

As I wrote back in 2015, “Obviously, no one at ABC thought so, since the network never moved their corporate headquarters from its tony Upper West Side address, despite attempting to scare the crap out of gullible low information viewers that Manhattan would be flooded in seven years.”

I PREDICT LONGTERM INCREASES IN SKEPTICISM TOWARD VACCINES IN GENERAL AS COVID FALLOUT CONTINUES: Only nine percent of older Americans were vaccinated against RSV before the disease hit this fall and winter.

When you abuse people’s trust, they trust you less. Or not at all.

VINDMAN SAYS A LOT OF STUFF: Vindman Says Trump Has ‘Every Intention’ to Destroy Democracy if He’s Elected.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Mainstream Media Warn If Trump Is Elected He Might Indict His Political Enemies, Imprison Detractors, And Rig Elections In His Favor https://t.co/mlKQLCKrur pic.twitter.com/IeYc9bogta

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 3, 2024

I BELIEVE IT: Study links sleep apnea issues to memory, thinking problems.

MICHAEL WALSH ON COVID: Now They Tell Us.

What lessons can we learn from this belated admission that the entire clusterkluge was a “mistake”? How to compensate for those who watched their loved ones die from behind a plate-glass window in Mengele Memorial Hospital? For those who — like a dear friend and mentor of mine — died from a second shot of the “vaccine” in the early days of the panic? For the families disrupted, restaurants closed, businesses destroyed, industries wrecked — and all with the witting complicity of the mainstream media, which so enthusiastically hosanna-ed the official narrative, despite the evidence of their own senses?

“Better to beg forgiveness than ask permission.” Isn’t that how the saying goes? I wrote my answer in this space almost a year ago. Never forgive, never forget I advised.

Related:

CDC Officially Changes COVID Guidelines To Whatever Your Uncle Frank Said About It Years Ago https://t.co/jCRp9ZSPto pic.twitter.com/iJPiHRbYc1

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 3, 2024

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COLORADO: Dems unveil ‘system-changer’ bills to limit oil and gas drilling, new emissions. “The bills, which have been in germination since the Legislative Interim Committee on Ozone Quality finished its work in December and in circulation in draft form for two weeks, aim broadly to reduce emissions in sectors ranging from transportation to energy to warehouses. But supporters made it clear that the primary targets of their proposals are oil-and-gas drillers and Suncor Energy, which operates the state’s only refinery in Commerce City.”

The Californication continues.

ROGER KIMBALL: Supreme Court rejects Colorado’s attempt to kick Trump off ballot.

The bottom line? “The judgment of the Colorado Supreme Court therefore cannot stand.” The cherry on top: it was a unanimous decision. “All nine Members of the Court agree with that result.” Ergo: “The judgment of the Colorado Supreme Court is reversed,” quod erat faciendum, or, in the words of the document, It is so ordered.

Of course, it was always absurd that the anti-Trump brigade should pretend to save democracy by keeping Trump off the ballot because otherwise the people might vote for him. It was just another example of the malodorous fact that, for these people, “democracy” means “rule by Democrats,” not rule of the people.

The SCOTUS order is cheery news for partisans of genuine democracy, in which the people, not a cabal of self-appointed elites, get to decide who will govern us. But any cheer that is extracted from today’s decision should be tempered by the name John Roberts, chief justice of the Supreme Court.

In the past, Roberts has shown himself to be cautious to the point of cravenness when it comes to appeasing the left. Every time he decides something that favors the conservative principles of originalism, he seems to get nervous and prevail upon the susceptible members of the Court to do something to soothe the left. He did it with Obamacare, and he did it more recently with voting rights and redistricting cases.  The question is, will he pressure his colleagues to throw Jack Smith a bone in the classified documents case that the Court just agreed to hear? Stand by.

While you’re waiting: Hot Takes: Delicious Media Meltdowns Commence After Supreme Court Ruling on Colorado Trump Case.

INTERVIEW: I talk about stuff with Karol Markowicz. Starts about 7:30 in.

GENERATIONAL THEFT: Somebody Set Us Up the $175 Trillion Debt Bomb.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Political Evangelism in Today’s Ireland.

UPDATE: British Ship Rubymar Hit by Houthi Missile Sinks in Red Sea.

A Houthi missile strike on Feb. 18 had blown a hole in the cargo vessel, Rubymar, which was shipping 22,000 metric tons of Saudi fertilizer to Bulgaria. That evening, the crew abandoned the vessel, flagged in Belize, and it vanished into the sea late Friday after taking on water for two weeks.

The Houthis have carried out more than 60 attacks in the Red Sea region, upending the shipping industry’s ability to travel through one of the world’s busiest commercial waterways, which connects Asia to Europe and beyond through Egypt’s Suez Canal.

The U.S. and its allies have sent warships to the Red Sea, and the U.S. and the U.K. have conducted airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen to deter the group from more attacks on the shipping industry. But the Houthis have proved resilient, saying they will continue to attack what they say are ships connected to Israel in response to its invasion of Gaza, though many of the vessels have no connection to Israel.

They’re at war with civilization.

THIS IS CORRECT, OF COURSE: Smackdown on CO: Unanimous SCOTUS Rules States Cannot DQ Trump on 14A; RNC: ‘Pure Election Interference.’ A lot of lefty law professors — and some conservatives who succumbed to TDS — managed to fool themselves otherwise, but this was always a dumb argument.

The opinion is here.

A friend messages: “Rule of law pokes its head up, looks around, says wtf? Some good frkn news for a change. Some good news for the frkn republic. Could it possibly be the beginning of a return to sanity? Eh… probably not. A shot across the bow of those who have been trying to declare political opposition defacto illegal and illegitimate.”

UPDATE:

In Major Blow To Democracy, Supreme Court Rules Voters Can Vote For Favorite Candidate https://t.co/T7dw1OCvYC

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 4, 2024

ANOTHER UPDATE: The delulu is strong in this one:

The Supreme Court has betrayed democracy. Its members including Jackson, Kagan and Sotomayor have proved themselves inept at reading comprehension. And collectively the "court" has shown itself to be corrupt and illegitimate.

It must be dissolved.

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) March 4, 2024

Remember, these are the people who tell us that Trump must be kept out of the White House because he has contempt for our institutions.

MORE: A reader writes: “Haha, Olbermann sounds kinda insurrectiony.”

SCENES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: Shocking Video Shows Teens Licking and Sucking Toes at School Event.

BE PREPARED: TROND Travel Power Strip, 2-in-1 Detachable Portable Charging Station with 3 AC Outlets. #CommissionEarned

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s ice-hunting VIPER moon rover getting ready to slither to the launch pad.

VIPER will land near the lunar south pole and search for water ice and other resources that could help support NASA’s future Artemis astronauts. Those moon explorers will include the first woman and the first person of color to set foot on the lunar surface; they’ll do so on the Artemis 3 mission, which is currently targeted for 2026.

VIPER will spend 100 days roaming the lunar south pole region, collecting data that will reveal where water ice is most likely to dwell and determining how easy these resources will be to access.

In the process, VIPER will become the first-ever resource mapping mission on another body in the solar system. These resource maps will be a vital step in establishing a long-term human presence on the moon.

He who controls the water, controls the Moon.

ONLY A MORON, A TERRORIST, OR A LEFTIE PROFESSOR COULD THINK OTHERWISE: Israeli scholar to Notre Dame audience: Hamas ‘not morally equivalent’ to the IDF.

FORMER NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR JIM MARTIN: DAVIDSON’S DEI EFFORTS GO TOO FAR. “Recently, all Davidson College student-athletes were required to watch a film entitled, ‘I’m Not Racist, Am I?’… Regardless of what you think, say or do, it insists that if you’re white, you are racist. If you’re of color, you cannot be racist. In their lexicon, ‘racist’ is just a synonym for ‘white.'”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Sounds like a hostile educational environment on account of race to me.

THIS JUST IN: Supreme Court rules Trump can remain on ballot.

Just The News reporting that:

Donald Trump can remain on the 2024 presidential ballot in a decision that comes one day before the Colorado Republican primary after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the top Republican contender is ineligible.

Ruling itself at link.

TOO FUNNY: Border Patrol Union Doubles Down on Biden Dis.

THOU SHALT NOT CONTRADICT THE NARRATIVE: Prof says ‘all hell broke loose’ at Harvard after his study found no racial bias in police shootings: Roland Fryer recently detailed the extreme backlash he says he faced for releasing findings that contradict popular left-wing narratives on policing. “Fryer says that colleagues told him ‘Don’t publish this,’ warning that ‘You’ll ruin your career.'”

I remember when we were told that higher education was about the quest for truth.

CHUTZPAH: Lawyers who voided Elon Musk’s ‘excessive’ Tesla pay package want $6 billion fee. “The law firms said the fee works out to an hourly rate of $288,888 for representing Tesla shareholder Richard Tornetta in the lawsuit to rescind the massive compensation package.”

DEAL OF THE DAY: Hori Hori Garden Knife, Garden Tools with Sheath. #CommissionEarned

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Garland’s Goons Arrest a Journalist but Trump’s the Threat to Democracy. “The one upside to all of the projection that the Dems do these days is that we know what their plans are. That’s especially true when it comes to all of their caterwauling about Donald Trump and anybody who votes for him being a ‘threat to Democracy.’ It’s one of the main talking points of the stump speech that DOCTOR Mama Jill Biden is giving, as part of the updated Basement Strategy.”

FLASHBACK: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.