Posted on 10/31/2019 9:35:34 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Rising seas could affect three times more people by 2050 than previously thought, according to new research, threatening to all but erase some of the world’s great coastal cities.
The authors of a paper published Tuesday developed a more accurate way of calculating land elevation based on satellite readings, a standard way of estimating the effects of sea level rise over large areas, and found that the previous numbers were far too optimistic. The new research shows that some 150 million people are now living on land that will be below the high-tide line by midcentury.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
For goodness sakes, folks. Don’t panic. By 2050 there’ll be so much platic in the ocean that you’ll be able to drive to Europastan.
Good. More beaches.
And Hillary Clinton will still be running for President from the grave in 2050!
DOOMED, we are all DOOMED. /s
It could happen. Quite likely, the water will be frozen.
NYC, Seattle, and Chicago were once under a mile of ice.
Or maybe we will have a shallow sea like the one that covered the interior of the US during the Crustaceous Era. Climate and Geology change over time. Raising taxes won’t help.
As long as 242 W 41st St, New York, NY 10036 is washed away, it’s worth it.
This is series!
We have lost New Orleans, New York lost, Venice gone, Miami gone, Hawaii, a whole state, gone, Rhodes islan,what?!.... they’re not gone? Oh, never mind.
LOL!!!!!
How can you research something that has never occurred?
You may try, with complete futility, to predict an event with an infinite number of variables.
Same
Note that this increase has stabilized considerably for the last several thousand years. The most recent data from an actual measurement is here:
Note that there has been NO acceleration in this measurement over the last 50 years, the time over which catastrophic global warming is supposed to have been occurring.
The Dutch have been dealing with this kind of sea level rise for more than 2400 years. It's too bad the NYT can't handle it now.
Earthquakes actually put cities underwater, not because the sea level rise, but because the land slid off the edge and sank along with whatever sat on it.
No more thirty year mortgages, then?
not a single city will be erased by 2050.
*sigh*
sooo tired of these lies.
They were supposed to be underwater in 2005, then 2010 and now 2050. Someday, someone might suspect they are just making things up.
Comments now closed. Mine would have been: I expect that 35 years from now we will see framed copies of this article on the walls of dens in Palm Beach, Southampton, and Martha's Vineyard.
ML/NJ
What a joke. Ask any greenie this question: How much has the sea level risen in the last 30 years? The last 50 years? The last 100 years?
They cannot tell you. Notice that you will never see a mention of that in any of these articles. There is a reason for that. They don’t know the answer.
I can tell you that the sea level of the Chesapeake Bay is exactly where it was 50 years ago. And I have never seen any evidence to dispute that.
Well, it hasn’t erased ANY up till now ...
Hard to believe such ignorance abounds in functioning adults.
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