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American South sea levels from Texas to North Carolina rising TWICE as fast as rest of the world - threatening to flood your favorite vacation spots (only 6.73 years left)
Daily Mail ^ | 5/03/24 | Nic White

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 ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Outdoors; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: climatechange; con; fake; flood; fraud; globalwarming; loot; nicwhite; platetectonics; scam; science; sea; vacation; water
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To: ComputerGuy

I’ve been going to the exact same spot on the exact same NC beach for over seventy years. It looks exactly like it used to.


21 posted on 05/03/2024 4:46:30 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Libloather

GILLIGAN!


22 posted on 05/03/2024 4:46:52 AM PDT by pas
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To: Harpotoo

“My land in Newport NC is still 7 inches above sealevel at high tide. Been that way since we bought it 16 years ago.”

Thanks for that data point. I haven’t seen any stories complaining of the sea gobbling up NC beaches, but don’t they regularly replenish NC beaches? Why’s that?


23 posted on 05/03/2024 4:52:05 AM PDT by cymbeline (we saw men break out of a concentration camp.”)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Climate change” is simply not what some people imagine it to be. It is today’s boogie man, a malign spirit conjured up to frighten and subjugate the fearful and those of weak convictions. Simply stating that the “sea levels are rising” and will overwhelm our coastal cities is a myth propagated on the basis on just about nothing at all. There is, in some localities, subsidence of the land, so there is an APPEARANCE of “rising” sea level, but it is not due to melting of the polar ice caps. At the north pole, the melting of ALL the ice would make not one whit of difference in sea level, as the volume of ice which FLOATS on water, then shrinks to the volume of the water it displaced, not changing the level.

But that is scientific reasoning, which is anathema to the “climate specialists”.


24 posted on 05/03/2024 4:52:35 AM PDT by alloysteel (Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
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To: Libloather

“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”

So a Chinese scientist, in Arizona, studying the ocean, thinks the sea levels are rising 6 or 7 inches a year, but only in the south. That sounds right. I remember last week I was having iced tea. The ice melted and it flowed over, but only on one side of the rim. Very odd. This scientist will be famous soon. I mean discovering that water does not seek its own level anymore. Amazing.


25 posted on 05/03/2024 4:52:58 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Libloather

For some reason, the Plymouth Rock is exactly the same as it was in 1620... right on the water’s edge.


26 posted on 05/03/2024 4:53:37 AM PDT by bosshog
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To: Libloather

“It’s irreversible”

But we need to throw money at it anyhow???

Cultists


27 posted on 05/03/2024 4:54:10 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Ikeon

Yes…. That was literally an episode of Gilligan’s Island.


28 posted on 05/03/2024 4:56:02 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Libloather

“which experts said was made worse by sinking land”

Not “made worse” but the biggest cause.

Subsidence in coastal areas is a normal issue of natural geologic and weathering forces. It’s what happens at every ocean coastline. And the less rocky the coastline the more easily it is noticeable.


29 posted on 05/03/2024 4:56:12 AM PDT by Wuli ( )
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To: Libloather

Whatever happened to water seeking its own level?

Haven’t we all seen water that has higher points on its surface and rivulets?

Talk about a load of crap.


30 posted on 05/03/2024 5:02:21 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Libloather
which experts said was made worse by sinking land.

I suspect that is the sole reason ocean waters appear to be rising.

I was taught in my high school physics class that water seeks its own level.

And if ocean tides seem to be increasing, that could be due to the changing gravitational pull of the moon.

31 posted on 05/03/2024 5:04:31 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Uncle Boozie was eaten by cannibals....)
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To: Libloather

It’s because so many illegals have invaded the South, that the land mass can’t handle the weight, and has sunk down.


32 posted on 05/03/2024 5:06:00 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: DesertRhino

tried for years to stack my bathwater at one end of the tub but was never successful. now with this new information I’m going to try again. it must be possible because it’s science!


33 posted on 05/03/2024 5:09:58 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star n )
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To: Libloather

land is not fixed. Some areas are rising and some have subsidence. Both of those land elevation changes have everything do with geology and hydrology. Man-caused climate change is a hoax and nonsense. Climate variability is real, but has not shown any consistence sea level change trends.


34 posted on 05/03/2024 5:14:19 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: KarlInOhio; ptsal

“Global tilting from Hank Johnson school of geology.”

Yes, Tides fluctuate throughout the year in any one particular location due to tilt. And land is always sinking from the weight of building.

Believe it or not, the earth’s crust also has it’s own tides too.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geology/rising-rock-earths-crust-has-its-own-tides.htm


35 posted on 05/03/2024 5:14:50 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: ArcadeQuarters

Perhaps this is some side effect of the moon? As we know, the moon is responsible for the tidal actions on the earth and nobody seems to be considering that some of this might be a result of changes in the moon? Or changes in the the moon’s orbit around the earth? Maybe we should create a “Star Wars” deathstar to put in orbit around the earth to counter the effects of the moon’s high tides?

These people are idiots.


36 posted on 05/03/2024 5:15:16 AM PDT by visually_augmented (I was blind, but now I see)
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To: Libloather
If you look closely at a globe you see that there's only one ocean and that the continents are really just huge islands. If the sea levels are rising they'd be rising on *all* coats...not just some. And they'd be rising at the same rate worldwide.
37 posted on 05/03/2024 5:17:47 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: Libloather
An analysis by the Post found sea levels were rising twice as fast in the Gulf than the world average, and are dramatically accelerating.

An analysis by who? LOL!

38 posted on 05/03/2024 5:19:12 AM PDT by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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To: Libloather
I guess I was taught wrong! I thought water seeks it's own level, but I guess it seems it seems different levels.

Maybe the land is sinking?

My suggestion, tell me how much the water level rises in Tampa Bay? I looked at old photos of the Tampa Bay region and except for high-rises, it seems the same!

39 posted on 05/03/2024 5:23:47 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: Libloather

If this is true, coastal property values should be dropping like a rock, right?


40 posted on 05/03/2024 5:24:45 AM PDT by chrisser (I lost my vaccine card in a tragic boating accident.)
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