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 ...
Sea levels began to rise 18k years ago at the end of the last glacial period. They have risen about 135 meters since then which is an average of 7.5 millimeters per year. That is an average of 750 mm per century (29.5 inches) which is far more than the average over the last century.
From 1880 to 2000 sea level rose about 20 cm or just under 8 inches. Far less than the nearly 30 inches per century average over the last 18,000 years.
My vote goes to the intelligentsia who disdain the freedom and open space of suburbia and instead push “Smart Growth” which forces buildings to cluster together and form large clumps of cement heat traps which artificially raise the surrounding temps by several degrees every day - more and more weather forecasters are quoting city temperatures that are regularly - summer and winter - significantly higher than the suburbs - I know intellectuals could never be stupid enough to champion actions that result in consequences they later or maybe even simultaneously condemn as leading to world destruction, but there you have it.....
What climate change?
There has been no change in Earth’s climate.
So the fault lies with those fools that believe that there has been any change.
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Mother Nature.
I blame the unsteady Mr. Sun and the wobbly-oriting-and-rotating Mother Earth.
LOL!
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