It will take hundreds of years — precisely when is unclear — before New York becomes America's version of Venice, which is famously sinking into the Adriatic Sea.
*SNIP*
New York City isn't the only place sinking. San Francisco also is putting considerable pressure on the ground and the region's active earthquake faults. In Indonesia, the government is preparing for a possible retreat from Jakarta, which is sinking into the Java Sea, for a new capital being built on the higher ground of a different island.
Maybe we can start a movement where thousands of conservatives jump up and down in unison in NYC to help it sink a tiny bit faster?
But Gord Downey (RIP) told me that New Orleans is sinking.
> New research estimates the city’s landmass is sinking at an average rate of 1 to 2 millimeters per year, something referred to as “subsidence.” <
What’s the +/- on this sinking claim? In other words, what’s the estimate of uncertainty? Such a value should be part of any scientific measurement. And it can be calculated. But we never see it when it comes to climate change.
Perhaps the estimate of uncertainty is on the order of the measurement itself. That would make the measurement worthless, of no value.
Not that anyone cares. Full speed ahead on spending billions of dollars to solve an unproven problem.
lol So maybe Climate change and the rising seas...just ain't so...
I thought Al Gore gave it ‘how many years’ in his little, fake movie. I thought it was supposed to be under water years ago.
Poor Obama. What’s he gonna do? What’s he gonna do when the rising oceans come for him?
1 inch every 20 years.....
[[ If rising oceans aren’t worry enough]]
OH but they are enough! More than enough!
I sit in my house day after day skart to death, afraid to wonder outside for fear of drowning. I wear a snorkel mask 24/7, and life preserver, AND Ive been vacci ated agai st the water virus, knowing that any minute a tidal wave could swallow us all alive
/s
"As the rising oceans threaten NYC...The city is sinking".
Sounds like one of those is the glass half empty or half full kinda things. It'll probably meet somewhere in the middle. Hopefully it won't flip over a la Hank Johnson.
NY Times: “Trump knew Trump tower was sinking in the river when he sold it.”
As rising oceans threaten NYC, study documents another risk: The city is sinking
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buh bye
It is incredible it took until 2023 for them to publish this. Heretofore, all their Chicken Little squawking was about global warming. Suddenly they discover trillions of tons of buildings push the earth down. It’s a well-known glacial phenomena forever.
Obviously fracking in the Dakota’s fault...
My concern is what effect will this have on bridge and tunnel tolls? :)
Welcome to New Venice.
In 1995, the NYT said the east coast beaches would be gone by 2020. Yesterday, they published an article stating the west coast beaches would soon be gone. That’s in addition to every other incorrect prediction made over the past 100 years regarding climate cooling/warming/change and dutifully published in the NYTimes.
What reference control data was used to measure this? Anything on the earth’s surface (which includes everything) has to be excluded because it is also presumably sinking.
If you use GPS measurements, their elevation readings are AT BEST accurate to one meter, rendering the entire study nonsense.
A couple of million obese people is who I blame.
;-)
Years ago, there was speculation that a large part of Manhattan Island had been deeply undermined and that at some point it could break off. I think they mentioned that a core sample had been taken inland and that it hit salt water.