Posted on 03/14/2025 7:05:17 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Last year saw an “unexpected” amount of sea level rise around the world, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Thursday.
An analysis led by the agency found that the rate of rise was nearly a quarter of an inch per year, compared to an expected rate of 0.17 inches.
That’s a concerning statistic considering the hazards rising sea levels bring, including sending potentially deadly storm surge farther inland, threatening urban infrastructure, eroding coastlines and disrupting ecosystems, and resulting in more frequent high-tide flooding.
“The rise we saw in 2024 was higher than we expected,” Josh Willis, a sea level researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a statement. “Every year is a little bit different, but what’s clear is that the ocean continues to rise, and the rate of rise is getting faster and faster.”
NASA said the increase was due to an “unusual” amount of ocean warming, as well as an influx of meltwater from glaciers and other land-based ice.
As the Earth warms due to heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions, more than 90 percent of that heat is absorbed by oceans. That causes ocean temperatures to rise and the water expands. It’s a process known as “thermal expansion” that contributes to rising sea levels. The planet’s warming has caused roughly a third of the global sea level rise observed by satellite altimeters since 2004.
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I know I’m severely alarmed. 😏
Makes me think of that Gilligan’s Island episode where they think that the island is sinking. Turns out that Gilligan was moving the measuring stick.
OOOOOOO NOW I’M SKEERED
Yup, whose payroll are these “scientists” on? Personally, I’m waiting for the “experts” to chime in.
"Paging Mr. DOGE. Paging Mr. DOGE. Pick up the white courtesy telephone, please."
I am located at 6000 ft. Can someone tell me how long I have to avoid the flood? Thanks
Is the sea rising or the land sinking, given tectonic plates and all that?
My averaging a great many samples at a rate much faster than the waves. An accurate pressure transducer would do the trick.
Do I have time to take a shower?
Spoon fed fear to the masses. Too funny.
“An analysis led by the agency found that the rate of rise was nearly a quarter of an inch per year, compared to an expected rate of 0.17 inches.”
Is it possible that rise was do to more and more people visiting beaches and peeing while swimming in the oceans?
It’s all the boner pills making their way out to sea.
The earth is not static. It has always been changing. CC alarmists, please get a life.
Exactamente.
Is the Plymouth Rock submerged yet? Has the turrets at the USS Arizona gone underwater permanently? Has the beach at Rio De Janeiro submerged since the movie THAT MAN FROM RIO(1966)? Cameras show no change.
I’m not reading it. Do they ignore subsidence from the last ice age?
It’s .17, ‘nearly .25’
.17 is closer to .125 than .25
OOPS!
Reread the post. I got it bassackward. Ignore my post.
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