Update #2: Prof. Michael Mann warns hurricanes may ‘literally force us to relocate the major coastal cities of the world’ – Recipe for climate ‘catastrophe’

Update: Climate Depot Note: Science Friday has misquoted Mann in it’s September 1 article. Screenshot from published article:

The exact key quote from Mann available from the podcast is: “Ultimately, we will have to, in some cases literally retreat — gracefully retreat, from our shorelines as sea level rise continues.” (Full podcast here, Mann’s quote at 2:35 remaining in audio.) Climate Depot has officially made the correction for Science Friday. Science Friday has still not corrected its error as of Sept. 2.

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Penn State Prof. Michael Mann, a prominent United Nations IPCC scientist, is now warning that Harvey is signalling a “new normal” in Hurricanes due to man-made climate change. Mann, a longtime climate activist who was embroiled in the Climategate scandal, says the world will have to “retreat from our shorelines as sea level rise continues” because of “global warming.”

“Ultimately, we will have to, in some cases literally retreat — gracefully retreat, from our shorelines as sea level rise continues,” Mann said in a website podcast on “Science Friday” in a September 1 article titled”Hurricane Harvey And the New Normal.” Excerpt via Science Friday:

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If we continue down the road we’re on and make no adjustments to climate change, Mann says, then these sorts of events could eventually become two-year or three-year events. “In other words,” he said, “we get a Harvey-like event impacting the Gulf Coast, or a Sandy-like event impacting the New Jersey and New York City coast once every few years … Imagine having to deal with something like that every few years.” At that point, Mann says, “”Ultimately, we will have to, in some cases literally retreat — gracefully retreat, from our shorelines as sea level rise continues.”

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Climate Depot Note: Mann’s claims about extreme weather, sea level rise and “global warming” have been challenged by the data, studies and other scientists. See: Climate Depot’s New ‘Talking Points’ Report – A-Z Debunking of Climate Claims

Despite the fact that world has seen declining extreme weather events (See: Extreme Weather Expert: ‘World is presently in an era of unusually low weather disasters’) — some climate activists want to criminalise dissenting view of “global warming.” See: Mag: After Harvey, ‘climate change denial should be a crime’ – ‘Denial can and will leave people dead’

Mann’s specific claims about Hurricane Harvey are disputed by many scientists. See:

The so-called “consensus” is very unclear about hurricanes.

See: What Hurricane ‘consensus’?! ‘Global warming’ causes MORE hurricanes — Except when it causes FEWER hurricanes – Stop the confusion! Global warming will cause less hurricanes or more hurricanes or more powerful but less frequent hurricanes or have no known impact on hurricanes and will cause less rain or more rain. In other words, predict every possible outcome and you too can claim you predicted it! No matter what happens with hurricanes, the climate establishment can confidently claim, they were right.

Mann joins a long list of doomsayers who have predicted similar end times predictions about “global warming.” In 2004, the UK’s Sir David King suggested Antarctica would be the only place left on Earth cool enough for humans to live.

Global warming campaigners have seized the opportunity to link Hurricane Harvey to their cause, just as they have done with previous hurricanes.

Here we go again: Every hurricane is ‘what climate change looks like’ according to climate activists

Climate activists waste no time blaming, exploiting and claiming every hurricane that makes landfall in the U.S. is “what climate change looks like.” Hurricane Harvey is the latest hurricane to get this treatment. Below are a few examples. (Also see: What Hurricane ‘consensus’?! ‘Global warming’ causes MORE hurricanes — Except when it causes LESS hurricanes)

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2017: “Harvey Is What Climate Change Looks Like” – Politico Magazine – By ERIC HOLTHAUS – August 28, 2017: Harvey is what climate change looks like. More specifically, Harvey is what climate change looks like in a world that has decided, over and over, that it doesn’t want to take climate change seriously.

# Flashback 2005: Boston Globe: Katrina’s real name: ‘Its real name is global warming.’ – By Ross Gelbspan – August 30, 2005: “THE HURRICANE that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming.” – August 30, 2005: “THE HURRICANE that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming.”

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Flashback 2012: Superstorm Sandy Is ‘What Global Warming Looks Like’ – Environmental News Service – October 30, 2012: Dan Lashof, who heads the Natural Resources Defense Fund, blogged, “This mega-storm is just one more sign of the new normal that will continue as long as we keep avoiding addressing climate change. Just like the unprecedented droughts, flooding and heat we all experienced this year, storms like Hurricane Sandy is what global warming looks like. This is the new normal.” Dan Lashof, who heads the Natural Resources Defense Fund, blogged, “This mega-storm is just one more sign of the new normal that will continue as long as we keep avoiding addressing climate change. Just like the unprecedented droughts, flooding and heat we all experienced this year, storms like Hurricane Sandy is what global warming looks like. This is the new normal.”

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