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To: raybbr

The sea level is not rising. The land is slipping toward the ocean by continental drift.


9 posted on 12/21/2014 5:36:53 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: bert

I guess the USS North Carolina is floating again.


11 posted on 12/21/2014 5:39:35 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: bert
The sea level is not rising. The land is slipping toward the ocean by continental drift.

Actually it is not continental drift, it is isostatic rebound. DC (and the entire area from Wilmington, NC to Trenton, NJ) is sinking because Quebec is rising. ~3 mi thick ice sheets are heavy.

12 posted on 12/21/2014 5:40:46 AM PST by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
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To: bert

The sea level is not rising. The land is slipping toward the ocean by continental drift.


...and subsiding from water use.

...and locally sea level is rising as currents shift (as they continuously do).

...and there is some sea level rising, as there has been whenever we recover from ice ages.

The biggest issue? We now build permanent buildings and can’t just shift them back from the waters edge.


21 posted on 12/21/2014 5:49:51 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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