Washington D.C. Is Sinking Into the Ocean

Time ^ | 7/30/15 | Tessa Berensen

[VinL]

All the political gridlock in Congress and name-calling during election season may not matter as much when Washington, D.C. sinks into the ocean.

According to new research conducted by geologists at the University of Vermont and the U.S. Geological Survey, the land in the Chesapeake Bay region, including the nation’s capital, is sinking rapidly. The sea level in the Chesapeake is rising at twice the global average and faster than anywhere else on the East Coast, the researchers say, which means D.C. will sink 6 or more inches in the next 100 years.

The sinking is caused by melting ice sheets which caused underlying rock to bulge upward. As the ice melts, the rock bulge drops. Scientists say this will cause more flooding in the region, which is already getting worse from global warming.

“Right now is the time to start making preparations,” said Ben DeJong, lead author of the study, in a University of Vermont press release. “Six extra inches of water really matters in this part of the world.”

[VinL]

Ahhhhh, stop teasing me. You go, Global Warming!

[Shady]

Yes, let them believe it and when Hades Ices Up then we can all guffaw...

[Slings and Arrows]

Go go global warming!

[ColdOne]

OK............buh bye!

[humblegunner]

Washington D.C. Is Sinking Into the Ocean

[ealgeone]

How can one body of water connected to the Atlantic rise faster than other? Shouldn’t we be seeing this in all bays/inlets, etc along the eastern coast.

Sounds like a problem more money is needed to fix!

[HarleyLady27]

Will it happen BEFORE we can get rid of obuma???????????????

(hoping)

[WilliamofCarmichael]

sinking? wouldn’t flushed be more appropriate?

[nascarnation]

Doesn’t this conflict with the MSM version of Caliph Baraq’s accomplishments?

[dfwgator]

Solves that whole “Redskins” issue.

[alancarp]

“Right now is the time to start making preparations...Six extra inches of water really matters in this part of the world.”

Good luck with that. Social Security and the nation's budget at large are already well under water and nobody in Washington gives a you-know-what.

[VinL]

very clever.

[microgood]

Best news I have heard in a long time.

[SpaceBar]

Too easy.

[Da Coyote]

TIME?

That collection of top scientists, er, collection of “journalism majors”?

Bwahahahaaaaaaaaaa!

[Flick Lives]

I see the problem. It’s sinking too slowly.

[CodeToad]

We can only hope like hell...

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Too bad catastrophic sinking is not “in the cards.”

[Organic Panic]

Global warming? Didn’t they get the memo?

And how is melting ice in Antarctica or Greenland (if you accept the premise) completely localized in Chesapeake Bay???

[faithhopecharity]

that headline is the best news possible out of WashDC