Posted on 07/24/2014 10:15:40 AM PDT by lbryce
Here in southeastern Virginia, our biggest city, Norfolk, is saddled with an unwanted claim to fame. As The Washington Post has reported, Norfolk is the place "where normal tides have risen 1.5 feet over the past century and the sea is rising faster than anywhere else on the East Coast."
NPR notes that the Norfolk area "is particularly vulnerable because the land is sinking as sea levels are rising."
Scientists from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science here at the College of William and Mary predict, according to the Post article, that "if current trends hold, by the end of this century, the sea in Norfolk would rise by 5.5 feet or more."
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Isn't this akin to saying "When I fill my bathtub the left side rises higher than the right side."
The climate changes. It has been changing ever since there was a climate. There are natural mechanism that are responsible for the changes. To claim that human activity is now responsible for the change, is to deny the forces of nature.
and..... the plates are moving.
The Sun!
I blame watermelons. Instead of working with energy groups and captains of industry who could successfully implement conservation policies which both protect the environment and still be profitable, he watermelons took a “take no prisoner “ approach and caused this.
In laymens terms, “unintended consequences.”
” If sea level rise isn’t equally distributed there can only be two reasons.”
A third reason is salinity, which is gravity-related. Where a freshwater river runs into the ocean, the water level will be higher as measured by satellite, because the fresh water is not as dense. The opposite happens when seawater is more saline than the average.
But for the most part, the level is close to the same all over.
The science deniers will deliberately confuse erosion, ground sinking, and storm surges as “proof” that the seas are rising and we must adopt a global communist economy to stop it.
Like blaming someone for gravity or adiabatic expansion.
They said it is rising faster because the land is sinking.
Climate change causes land to sink?
What a non-story. Or out and out fraud which is usually the case.
Yes, salinity would also be a factor. But we’re told that AGW causes less rain, so we can rule that out ;-)
Climate change stories would be best reported in MAD magazine.
100 years of sea level data at Northfork Naval Base
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/est/est_station.shtml?stnid=8638660
the SUN
This kind can:
However, I checked Google Earth and I don't see glaciers anywhere around Norfolk. So I'd say it is natural settling of the sedimentary deposits that Norfolk rests upon. A minor detail the author of this screed glosses over.
I think they concentrate on fixing the sinking land problem and report back. It may be evil George Bush digging a huge sink hole under the city like he did in New Orleans before evil Karl Rove cranked up his hurricane machine. About as probable as global warming, but either way it sounds like a good reason to start the looting.
This is simple pot banging.
I don’t have the time to explore this in detail right now but this area has a number of tidal gauges which give very different rates of increase. The global rate of increase is about 20 cm per 100 years or 2mm per year. This area has a higher rate of rise than that but it is definitely not uniform, with Sewall Point being a distinct outlier. The chart at the link gives you all the local tidal gauges. If you click on them you can see the data for that location.
http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/299.php
Mister Freeze
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