Posted on 03/04/2021 7:43:52 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Off the coast of England, there's a tiny, wind-swept island with the remains of a lifeboat rescue station from the mid-1800s. The workers who once ran the station on Hilbre Island did something that, unbeknownst to them, has become crucial for understanding the future of a hotter climate: They recorded the tides.
The data, scrawled in long, handwritten ledgers, is just one example of the tens of thousands of pages of tidal measurements stored in archives around the world. Now, scientists and historians are racing to digitize them in an effort to understand how fast oceans are rising. The aging notebooks establish a historical baseline to compare with today's changing world.
Sea level rise is accelerating around the globe, likely to displace millions of people who live in coastal communities. Forecasts show between 3 and 6 feet of rise by the end of the century, or potentially more, depending on how much heat-trapping pollution humans emit.
Knowing exactly how much inundation to expect and how fast it's happening in each city can be tricky. Sea levels rise at different rates in different places due to the movement of the Earth's crust and ocean currents.
Long-term historical data, diligently tallied when the shipping industry was king, provide a window into these geologic processes and help improve the complex computer models scientists use to forecast the future. Those forecasts are crucial for helping cities prepare, whether it's building infrastructure to protect themselves or moving people out of harm's way.
Still, the vast majority of these historical records come from Europe and the U.S., leaving a glaring data gap in the Southern Hemisphere. That has researchers scouring archives of the Global South, including the ledgers of former colonial powers.
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Global Warming PING!
No one ever thought of looking at century old photos?
Oh, yes! Let’s move back to the climate change hoax since it seems the COVID hoax has about run its course.
Some things never change.
Que Obama’s House that is 70 yards from the sea.
I have yet to see any proof whatsoever of rising waters. The water line at Battery Park in NYC, the bell/float at south tip of Key West, etc. are still the same as they have always been. I haven’t read about Obama putting his $17 million beach estate in Nantucket up for sale or abandoning it to rising water.
So if we need to go back to century old shipping logs, the answer must be: Not very fast at all.
What we do know is that it fluctuates....but we do not know the cause of the fluctuations.
And those written records go back how far?? Till the beginning of time?? Right!!
GRANT MONEY is forever.
Do they plan to adjust the old data [downward] to be consistent with outputs of the Gorebal Warning Models?
If you start out with the assumption they’re rising, you’re already screwed.
Actually, the oceans are not rising. If you look at the data, they are rising in some areas, dropping in others, and unchanged in still others.
The reason? The earth is like a big paper bag of molasses floating in space. The molasses is not solid and the surface is constantly changing.
That is, in some areas the LAND is rising while in others it is dropping. And they may both reverse in a few thousand years.
This may help, but there is a LOT of reading and charts here:
https://realclimatescience.com/2019/01/accelerating-sea-level-fraud-in-climate-science/
Maybe the island was SINKING............................
“leaving a glaring data gap in the Southern Hemisphere.”
Maybe it went the opposite direction averaging it all out.
Global Warming PING!
We had the whole month of February here in central Jersey with the ground covered completely with white GoreBull Warming.
There are ancient ROMAN era docks that are under water, so 2000 year per meter or so................
I’m 40 miles from the shore and 650 feet above sea level. I’m good.
Maybe the island was SINKING............................
I’m sure to these propaganda spouting morons, the island sinking was an independent variable.
Idiots.....
Oceans aren’t rising, land is sinking.
We need another Noah’s flood.
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