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.
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See? Engeron was right, Ma -a -lago is all but worthless.
Total BS. I have a house on the Texas Coast and the level hasn’t changed
>If the sea level rises over here but doesn’t rise over there...<
That is exactly the case. The tides in the Pacific don’t match the tides in the Atlantic. They have different masses. It creates a giant “slosh” that migrates around the globe. It is known and very predictable.
It was only a few years ago when the slosh was near the Maldive Islands and we were all told this is proof of the rising sea level. The slosh moved on and the Maldives are back to normal.
Guess where the slosh is now. Time to send in Jim Cantori.
EC
I guess water levels were never much use for anything - riiiiiight?
Where do they find these morons?
Nonsense.
My business takes me to New England frequently. I’m from outside Philadelphia and worked in NYC for years, so this is sort of uncharted territory for me.
This past winter was mild temperature-wise. But, there were really nasty storms. Many costal areas in New Hampshire and Maine got walloped. Boston seemed to be its usual self with not a ton of snow (the last serious winter was 2015). Parenthetically, the traffic around Boston is worse than NYC.
Many folks with whom I spoke in the NH and ME areas chalked up this winter’s devastation to global warming blah blah blah. But amidst this hype almost EVERYONE said “….and I haven’t seen anything this bad since the storm of 1978.” A few of you who I pinged have mentioned the 1978 storm and digging out streets near Boston. So it’s real.
Now, I remember a massive snow storm as a kid, which aligns with 1978. We were building snow men and using snow blowers outside of Philadelphia, which is sort of unusual. So it happened; It WAS a biggie.
But it wasn’t global cooling (which was all the rage in the 70s).
Thus, if you do the math, this “global warming”-induced 2024 stormy Bad Stuff seems like - wait for it! - a 50-year weather pattern/High Water Mark. Add to that homes being built by Low Information Homeowners over the years so close to the water that you’re just ASKING to be washed out to sea, and you get middle-aged Greta’s…and she’s on the spectrum with slimy parents who use her as a human shield to ca$h in. She’s got an excuse.
A fifty-year storm cycle seems pretty normal, and hardly a reason to buy a Tesla or eat bugz.
B.S.
Irrefutable proof subject to independent verification and rigorous analysis please.
For the record:
The ‘hill’ on the Atlantic side only exists in the region of Chesapeake Bay where the region is - coincidentally - undergoing glacial isostatic rebound and groundwater extraction (the land is sinking, also affecting other areas of the East Coast due to the latter without the prior).
https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/ice-age-rebound
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37853-7
and, of course, they use that to great effect:
Water finds it level so how is it possible that water levels rise in some areas faster than others? I really hate it when you cross from the Gulf of Mexico into the Atlantic and have to carry your boat up that step.
It is called "subsidence" and is primarily caused by pumping groundwater from underground aquifers faster than they can recharge and, to a lesser extent, high density development, including constructing multiple high rise buildings in coastal areas. Basically, building those high density cities that liberals want to force everyone to live in.
The ground level in some coasta areas is going down. The sea level is remaining constant.
Yeah. I own land on the North River in Beaufort NC.
When King tides hit, water will go 10-15 feet onto the land, otherwise, its stays easily 8-12 inches below the top of the rip-rap on high tide.
We live in NH further inland, and it was a great winter. Fairly snow free, a few storms, and relatively mild.
South of us seems to be in the storm track anyways, so yeah, likely they did experience worse. I don’t see it as being unusual.
And our worst storm in these parts was a few years ago when we got over 40 inches of snow in one 24 hour period.
A whole state cannot be measured by what happens in one part of it.
I live on a sailboat in the Treasure Coast of Florida (for now anyway). WE are at sea level in the Indian River, a river that is tidal, though not much of a tide here. It varies about 1ft from low to high most days. So, we either have to step onto the boat from the fixed dock, or, step down. When the winds blow hard off the ocean, we might have to step up. The docks have been here and haven’t changed in 20+ years (we’ve only been here a few years), but, nothing has changed around here.
It does vary a little, but, not by much.
the only time that actually changes, is when the tectonic plates of a coastal region start sublimation... or so I am told. The sea stays the same tidal circadian solar/lunar cycles... while moving the tectonic plates up or down a few feet may adjust WHERE on he new lower or elevated shoreline the tidelines fall...
does that make any sense.
Indeed, the same holds for the Earth. Thanks for the facts.
IT HAS NOT CHANGED ONE INCH with respect of where the beach and water meet. The distance to the dunes has not changed. There is ZERO evidence of subsiding or retreating sand.
would not that violate the equal protection clause in the US Constitution? rofl? wrong subject, I guess.. :-).
yup.
Water seeks its own uniform level, but coastlines can erode at different rates.
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