Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/20/2009 5:59:24 PM PST by Lorianne
The sea level in Juneau is actually falling very rapidly:
"JUNEAU, Alaska — Global warming conjures images of rising seas that threaten coastal areas. But in Juneau, as almost nowhere else in the world, climate change is having the opposite effect: As the glaciers here melt, the land is rising, causing the sea to retreat. ___ Relative to the sea, land here has risen as much as 10 feet in little more than 200 years, according to the 2007 report. As global warming accelerates, the land will continue to rise, perhaps 3 more feet by 2100, scientists say."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Temperature in Juneau, AK now, per the WX channel is 18F.
The Canadian shield has been rising since the ice age. I believe its risen some 2000 feet.
Maybe somebody should alert Al and CRU!
Maybe somebody should alert Al and CRU!
So if I buy beachfront property in Juneau, and my front yard expands 10 feet, is that 10 feet mine to keep?
No need. It seems the NYT has the b!tching covered already.
The land in Wisconsin is rising as well from the last glaciation period.
There are signs on the road approaching the visitors center at Exit Glacier on the Kenai Peninsula. The first sign is a considerable distance away and reads 1896.
This means the government has been watching for 113 years.It is not new and certainly not the last decade.
The climate has been changing ever since our planet was formed. Where I’m typing this right now was covered under three miles of ice just 18,000 years ago (just an eye-blink in the life of Earth) during one of many ice ages - and at some point in the future it shall be once again - regardless of how much money Algore and his cult followers want to take out of my pockets today.
And they haven’t done anything about it until now? !!!
Shame!
| Relative to the sea, land here has risen as much as 10 feet in little more than 200 years, according to the 2007 report. As global warming accelerates, the land will continue to rise
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There weren’t as many cars 200 years ago, but they were terrible polluters.
Its called isostatic rebound, just another real truth that offsets the hype.
Correct, basic science. Great experiment for kids, do you have more water in your cup after the ice has melted or less?
Nick, that is one of the greatest comments on science I have ever read. Where are the Mark Twains when we need them.
That’s covered in Physical Geology, the introductory geology course.
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In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.