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UVM study: Washington DC Sinking Into Sea
University of Vermont ^ | July 28, 2015 20:42 GMT | Joshua E. Brown

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at uvm.edu ...


TOPICS: Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: beltway; chesapeake; climatechange; climatechangescam; climatedeniers; dc; districtofcolumbia; forebulgecollapse; globalwarming; globalwarmingscam; sinking; university; usgs; uvm; vermont; washington; washingtondc
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

No they won’t.


41 posted on 07/28/2015 10:05:45 PM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!)
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To: Up Yours Marxists
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 above sentence is completely bass-ackwards. Not sure if it's a deliberate lie, but it's 180 degrees wrong. Areas under continental ice sheets are pressed down by the immense weight of the ice, and when the ice melts undergo a process called isostatic-rebound just like a cork bobbing in water up once you remove your finger holding it down. The effect is very measurable with modern geodesy techniques, and has been used along with moraines and other landforms to estimate paleo glacial thicknesses.
42 posted on 07/28/2015 10:11:40 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Up Yours Marxists

43 posted on 07/28/2015 10:16:52 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

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.


44 posted on 07/28/2015 10:21:44 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Redcitizen

“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!)


45 posted on 07/28/2015 10:23:28 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

There must NEVER be any changes to the land, oceans or climate in perpetuity.


46 posted on 07/28/2015 10:24:11 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Up Yours Marxists

More like the sewer.


47 posted on 07/28/2015 10:27:41 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

“Fart. “

That I can do!


48 posted on 07/28/2015 11:05:53 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Maybe their calling is below them. Way below them.


49 posted on 07/28/2015 11:08:50 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

What would happen if every American mailed a brick to the White House at the same time???


50 posted on 07/28/2015 11:44:29 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Up Yours Marxists
Only a tax increase can save our beloved capital!!!

Make haste everyone! Send Washington more greenbacks!!!!

51 posted on 07/28/2015 11:51:37 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: GingisK

But a meteor strike at the center of the city would speed up the slooooooow geological process -,a two fer!


52 posted on 07/28/2015 11:53:34 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Up Yours Marxists
UVM study: Washington DC Sinking Into Sea

Finally, some good news!

53 posted on 07/28/2015 11:56:28 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

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.


54 posted on 07/29/2015 1:49:54 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

It is because Ted Kennedy’s bloated carcas in Arlington is too heavy.


55 posted on 07/29/2015 3:03:42 AM PDT by WMarshal (“A man’s rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box, and the cartridge" - F. Douglas)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

“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.


56 posted on 07/29/2015 3:55:54 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Redcitizen

Good reason to relocate our capital to the geographic center of the US


57 posted on 07/29/2015 4:03:34 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

maybe I’ll have some beach front property then...


58 posted on 07/29/2015 5:13:20 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

They say that like its a bad thing.


59 posted on 07/29/2015 5:32:14 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: dfwgator

It was a swamp to begin with afterall.


60 posted on 07/29/2015 6:15:36 AM PDT by CPT Clay
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