Gore said the single most common criticism he’d gotten from deniers of his global-warming claims was regarding the animation showing ocean water flowing into the World Trade Center memorial site. “It happened as of last October, way ahead of schedule,” he said, referring to Superstorm Sandy.
Actually he missed by almost 200 years. An 1821 storm surge also covered the WTC site.
In 1821, stunned colonial New Yorkers recorded sea levels rising as fast as 13 feet in a single hour at the Battery. The East River and Hudson Rivers merged over Lower Manhattan all the way to Canal Street. According to Coch, the fact that the 1821 storm struck at low tide “is the only thing that saved the city.”
Apparently Gore thinks we should measure mean sea level during storm surges.
(Huffington Post censors all information about the 1821 hurricane, because it is not approved by the Ministry of Truth.)