Posted on 07/28/2015 8:57:40 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
New research confirms that the land under the Chesapeake Bay is sinking rapidly and projects that Washington, D.C., could drop by six or more inches in the next century—adding to the problems of sea-level rise.
This falling land will exacerbate the flooding that the nation’s capital faces from rising ocean waters due to a warming climate and melting ice sheets—accelerating the threat to the region’s monuments, roads, wildlife refuges, and military installations.
For sixty years, tide gauges have shown that sea level in the Chesapeake is rising at twice the global average rate and faster than elsewhere on the East Coast. And geologists have hypothesized for several decades that land in this area, pushed up by the weight of a pre-historic ice sheet to the north, has been settling back down since the ice melted.
The new study—based on extensive drilling in the coastal plain of Maryland—confirms this hypothesis, and provides a firm estimate of how quickly this drop is happening. Additionally, the researchers’ detailed field data make clear that the land sinking around Washington is not primarily driven by human influence, such as groundwater withdrawals, but instead is a long-term geological process that will continue unabated for tens of thousands of years, independent from human land use or climate change.
The new research was conducted by a team of geologists from the University of Vermont, the U.S. Geological Survey, and other institutions. The results were presented online July 27 in the journal GSA Today.
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No they won’t.
Move the Supreme Court to Pocatello, Idaho; the House to Birmingham, Ala.; the Senate to Jamestown, N.Dak.; and the White House to Pahrump, Nev.
Leave the bureaucracies in Washington. As the lower floors of the buildins fill with water, fire the people using those floors.
“Cook a ribeye steak on a charcoal grill.”
Tomorrows’ dinner here, though it will be some really nice, thick porterhouse steaks! Only problem, we like them rare, so it won’t be a long grill time. And it won’t be on charcoal, but on an infrared natural gas fired grill with hickory nut smoke to expertly define the flavor!
And for you smokers out there, broken up hickory nuts (with the outer shell removed, is better for smoking than the hickory wood, in our completely unbiased opinion... :)
(We have done it both ways, btw, many times, and that makes us experts!)
There must NEVER be any changes to the land, oceans or climate in perpetuity.
More like the sewer.
“Fart. “
That I can do!
Maybe their calling is below them. Way below them.
What would happen if every American mailed a brick to the White House at the same time???
Make haste everyone! Send Washington more greenbacks!!!!
But a meteor strike at the center of the city would speed up the slooooooow geological process -,a two fer!
Finally, some good news!
I thought it was because much of Washington is reclaimed swampland. In Lincoln’s time, the area that would become his memorial was in the Potomac.
It is because Ted Kennedy’s bloated carcas in Arlington is too heavy.
“is sinking rapidly and projects that Washington, D.C., could drop by six or more inches in the next century—adding to the problems of sea-level rise”
So, let me see if I got this right: The land is SINKING and it is adding to the problem of SEA-LEVEL RISE!
WTF??????????
This is a proven fact that weather alarmists do not have IQ’s above 13....but it scares the hell out of 3/4 of our ignorant population.
Good reason to relocate our capital to the geographic center of the US
maybe I’ll have some beach front property then...
They say that like its a bad thing.
It was a swamp to begin with afterall.
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