Posted on 05/03/2024 4:14:12 AM PDT by Libloather
Cities, towns and vacation spots across the American South are 'drowning' under rapidly rising tides that could soon put them underwater.
Ocean levels are at least six inches higher than they were a decade ago along a swathe of the country from Texas to North Carolina. An overall rising ocean is coupled with vicious tidal events that wreak havoc and kill locals, especially when they coincide with storms.
The problem is already affecting thousands of Americans living along the coast, and millions more across the US will feel it in the coming decades.
Climate change is steadily raising sea levels around the world, but the Gulf of Mexico is rising faster than almost anywhere else in the world.
'It’s irreversible,' Jianjun Yin, a climate scientist at the University of Arizona, told the Washington Post.
Scientists are perplexed as to why the region is so badly affected, with few other areas - such as the North Sea near the UK - have shown such as a similar increase.
An analysis by the Post found sea levels were rising twice as fast in the Gulf than the world average, and are dramatically accelerating.
Average sea levels in Charleston, South Carolina, rose 7 inches since 2010, which was twice as much as over the previous 30 years.
Tybee Island in Georgia rose 3.7 inches in 1980 to 2009, then 7.3 inches from 2010 to 2023, and Wilmington, North Carolina, rose 2.7 inches, then 7 inches, over the same spans.
Galveston, Texas, was the worst hit in the Post's research, jumping 8.4 inches in the past 14 years , which experts said was made worse by sinking land.
High tides flooded the area at least 141 times since 2015 and are expected to become far more frequent in the near future.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I see stories like this from time to time, and I never understand it. Is there a hill of water off the coast of the American South which is causing localized sea levels to rise? Is this hill of water not present over on the other side of the Atlantic?
Texas is on the gulf. North Carolina is on the Atlantic. This idiot is in Arizona.
Yeah...8 plus inches of rain in a 24 hour period has nothing to do with it. /s
If the sea level rises over here but doesn’t rise over there...
Just a guess but maybe it’s the method of measurement that differs and not the actual sea level.
Non idiots know, water seeks a level. The writer of this screed is an idiot.
Gilligan! what are you doing with that stick?
I use it to hold my crab pots. I had to move it deeper to catch the big ones!!
gilligan! I was using that stick to measure the sea levels.
Gilligan! what are you doing with that stick?
I use it to hold my crab pots. I had to move it deeper to catch the big ones!!
gilligan! I was using that stick to measure the sea levels.
LMAO
ridiculous
Global tilting from Hank Johnson school of geology.
...houses built on sinking sand....
My land in Newport NC is still 7 inches above sealevel at high tide. Been that way since we bought it 16 years ago.
I thought the moon was primarily responsible for the tides, and to a lesser extent the gravitational pull of the gas giants (which also affects Earth’s orbit). Innumerable variables make it impossible to know or forecast what’s happening to our climate in the future, or do much about it. I would much prefer spending the climate hoax money on cleaning up the planet as opposed to lining the pockets of a few mega-rich individuals.
Except where dictated by tides and currents sea level is sea level. It can’t be one level in one area, but another level in another area.
Environmental whackos invariably measure “sea level” using “tidal gauges” which vertically protrude from sea beds in coastal waters. Tidal gauges don’t measure sea levels as charged. They measure land subsidence.
Land subsidence is a feature of human activity via water table extraction and by sheer weight of built structures.
These idiots have effectively proven that people are escaping from the North to live in the South. End of story.
It’s all in the climate change, of course!
https://sealevel.nasa.gov/news/151/a-subtle-effect-of-climate-change-uneven-sea-level-rise/
Just how dumb do they think we are?...
Few words
Dubai
2 years rain in one day
Excessive cloud seeding by man
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