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| Fig. 1 See The Future |
Before the year 2009 there were no events called 'king tides' by the warming commentariat.
For hundreds or thousands or millions of years before Humble Oil-Qaeda began to use its energy to melt the ice sheets of the planet Earth, the monthly high tide marks were well below the place where beach homes came to be built (e.g. Fig. 2).
Yes, way before the year 2009 in Australia the full Moon would align with the Sun, but since it had no king designation there were no events called 'king tides'.
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| Fig. 2 Once upon a time |
There were only high tides.
Then the king designation erupted from the minds of an Oil-Qaeda influenced Aussie or two, then spread like all trances do (Wikipedia).
Soon, some more astute scientific thinkers realized that a better designation would be "The Future Low Tide Mark", and they began a movement (King Tide Stuff).
The gist of it is the mantra "today's king tide mark is tomorrow's low tide mark", which indicated to them that coastal tide events could be a way of envisioning the future (Fig. 1).
This began an effort to record what the future would look like at coastlines around the globe:
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| Fig. 3 Future sea level potential (USGS) |
"King Tides Project International is an initiative delivered by a network of organizers on coastlines around the world. We are citizen scientists, capturing data and images showing what the future sea levels will be and what is at risk.
The King Tides Project helps people all over the world understand how sea level rise will impact their lives."
(About King Tides Project, emphasis added; cf. home page, about page, participate page, maps page, and join a project page). Notice that there was 263.5 feet of sea level change potential circa the year 2000 (Fig. 3).
We can see the efficacy of the averages of king tide dynamics in graphs that are also the averages of sea level dynamics (Tidal appendices: Countries, A-F, G-M, N-S, T-V).
The previous post in this series is here.
