Oh! Geez! How much longer do we have to listen to this nonsense?
Which is it, rising seas or erosion (falling land)? It's hard to get past an ambiguous premise.
Puhleeze. This is hysterical baloney.
If the seas are higher in Europe, and water seeks its own level, the sea level would be higher here in NJ, NY, Pennsylvania, Maryland.....
I’ve been down to the Jersey Shore multiple times this year, and the very same spots I go fishing and crabbing are exactly the same level they were last year, and the year before, and year before..... as the tide goes in and out, that is.
The other thing that puts the Kabosh on these global warming nuts is the fact that as an ice cube melts in a glass of water, the aggregate level does not rise, because the ice cube shrinks as it melts, there for making more space for the liquid.
Same principle that would affect the oceans as they relate to the ice caps.
Lord Smith of Finsbury said plans need to be drawn up to evacuate people from large stretches which are threatened by erosion.
The headline is misleading. The sea is not rising. The land is sinking (eroding).
apparently, global warming is so incredibly insidious that can raise sea levels near villages in Alaska, Vanuutu and the UK but not raise them in France, Africa, Florida or Japan.
Sneaky, sneaky stuff that global warming. No wonder we can’t seem to prove that it exists or how it really works. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the global warming actually tried to trick us by making the globe cooler for a few decades to throw us off it’s track. Just can’t trust global warming. Can’t trust it at all!
Why assume a constant sea level? It has changed hundreds of meters sine 12,000 or so years ago (look up Doggerland, or any number of land bridges. Long Island Sound was a valley, Florida was 3x its current size, much of the Gulf was inhabited because the beach was a hundred miles from its current location).
If we are to survive the near term, 20,000 years or so, we must look to past climate change over the same timescale and figure out how to deal with it should it recur, and also put aside a bit for unknown changes.
Assuming that now is just like it always has been will lead to gross failure.
Remember one of Gary Larson's cartoons, “Grog- Ice closer today?”
I repented of messing up my mind with ideas like this.
Some of it is bound to happen given enough time and the natural ebb and flow of climactic conditions. Has Atlantis risen yet? What about the lost continent of Mu in the Pacific? All those alleged healings? All those supposed past life readings?
There are many with seemingly extraordinary occult powers. That I don't doubt. Just beware of the possible source of those powers. Somewhere it is said, and not in jest, something to the effect that the Devil will give you many truths if he can just get you to believe one lie.
Some things may very well come to pass, just as many things have been hidden for centuries because of the shifting sands of time.
Lord Smith should consider his and England’s good fortune. Wouldn’t the Dutch need rescue operations long before anyone else was at risk.
PS, can you cite the author of the scientific paper you are using to support your doom and gloom forecast?
There was a time a few thousand years ago when a hardy soul could walk from Paris to London on dry land. “Global warming” after the last ice age caused ocean levels to rise and the English Channel to fill with water from melting glaciers. When the next ice age arrives it will probably dry up again. The cycle has been repeated many times.
Where’s the guy with the “OMG!” “ONOZ!” animation?
No sweat, our super nancy is going to save the planet in 2 or 3 days.