[Diana in Wisconsin]

*SNIP*

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.

[PGR88]

There’s a site on youtube called “climate news network.” I’m surprised youtube allows it to exist

The have provided sea-level measurements at major ports in Europe, New York, etc... over the last century (where accurate measurements are available)

The average sea-rise over that time is something like 1 centimeter.

[JBW1949]

Rep. Hank Johnson claims Manhattan is going to flip over because of all the weight...

[VideoDoctor]

As rising oceans threaten NYC, study documents another risk: The city is sinking

The END is NEAR! /s

[Reno89519]

Rising oceans?! Where, seriously, and how soon. I read recently that no one alive today will see a noticable rise in their lifetime.

[oldvirginian]

Someone correct me if I’m wrong... but didn’t they at one time sink ships and cover them with stone and dirt to create more land in San Fagcisco to build on?
If all that compresses or slips at the same time I imagine the results would be biblical.

[Degaston]

People need to understand how geology works and accept that change is always happening to the continents, mountain ranges, and elevations of locales globally. But, yes the 1.7 trillion tons of weight for concrete, metals, and other substances does have an impact. However, that’s just a small speck in the big scheme of things for planet Earth.

[x]

The version I always heard was that the rock taken out weighed more than the skyscrapers that were built.

As for buildings that aren’t skyscrapers built on land that isn’t bedrock, is sinking usually that much of a problem?

[johnthebaptistmoore]

The next version of West Side Story will be very interesting, but stupid. Flooding San Francisco would get rid of the stink there.

[lizma2]

[Gay State Conservative]

I'll believe the oceans are rising when Osama Obama,algore and Zuckerberg sell their beachfront mansions and move to Colorado.

[JimRed]

That natural process happens everywhere as ground is compressed, but the study published recently in the journal Earth's Future sought to estimate how the massive weight of the city itself is hurrying things along.

It is probably still rebounding from the hundreds of feet of ice that covered it until 12-15,000 years ago.