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Sea levels rising on US East Coast faster than anywhere else (3 times faster than global average)
CS Monitor ^ | 06/25/2012 | By Seth Borenstein

Posted on 06/25/2012 8:46:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Atlantic Ocean is rising at an annual rate three times faster than the global average since 1990, according to the US Geological Survey.

Sea levels are rising much faster along the U.S. East Coast than they are around the globe, putting one of the world's most costly coasts in danger of flooding, government researchers report.

U.S. Geological Survey scientists call the 600-mile (965-kilometer) swath a "hot spot" for climbing sea levels caused by global warming. Along the region, the Atlantic Ocean is rising at an annual rate three times to four times faster than the global average since 1990, according to the study published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

It's not just a faster rate, but at a faster pace, like a car on a highway "jamming on the accelerator," said the study's lead author, Asbury Sallenger Jr., an oceanographer at the agency. He looked at sea levels starting in 1950, and noticed a change beginning in 1990.

Since then, sea levels have gone up globally about 2 inches (5 centimeters). But in Norfolk, Virginia, where officials are scrambling to fight more frequent flooding, sea level has jumped a total of 4.8 inches (12.19 centimeters), the research showed. For Philadelphia, levels went up 3.7 inches (9.4 centimeters), and in New York City, it was 2.8 inches (7.11 centimeters).

Climate change pushes up sea levels by melting ice sheets in Greenland and west Antarctica, and because warmer water expands.

Computer models long have projected higher levels along parts of the East Coast because of changes in ocean currents from global warming, but this is the first study to show that's already happened.

By 2100, scientists and computer models estimate that sea levels globally could rise as much as 3.3 feet (1.01 meters).

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KEYWORDS: atlantic; atlanticocean; climatechange; eastcoast; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; sealevels; usgs
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To: SeekAndFind

The highest rate of Leftist data crunching appears to be taking place along the U.S. East Coast.


61 posted on 06/25/2012 9:48:09 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Look at thes seal level for the last 500 million years.

It has NEVER been flat or stable. Why do we expect it to be stable now?

62 posted on 06/25/2012 9:49:24 AM PDT by Species8472 (Stupid is supposed to hurt)
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To: Sgt_Schultze
“How does that work?”

That's simple.

Zippo said if he was elected the oceans would begin to recede.

This is just one more thing he's screwed up.

63 posted on 06/25/2012 9:49:58 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: SeekAndFind

This gives us a big trade advantage. Ships from Europe have to sail up hill to get here and ours can cost down hill.


64 posted on 06/25/2012 9:50:44 AM PDT by DManA
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To: SeekAndFind
Seth Borenstein is a national science writer for The Associated Press ...
Seth Borenstein - The Baghdad Bob of Global Warming



65 posted on 06/25/2012 9:51:39 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: cableguymn

Seth, you have been spinning for the AGW/IPCC scam for sometime:
1) Who took the measurements of earth’s sea levels in 1950.
2) The earth’s sea levels have been rising naturally since the last major ice age. If there is a rise, how do you know it’s not natural.
3) What proof do you have any rise is causeed by AGW. Other than political proof.
4) Since the Emails exposed the AGW/IPCC scientists had to DOCTOR the data to make CO2(man)seem responsible for any perceived warming, WHY SHOULD WE BELIEVE ANY OF YOUR BS.


66 posted on 06/25/2012 9:51:48 AM PDT by spawn44 (moo)
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To: Sacajaweau; eCSMaster
See this thread for support:

Another Stephan Rahmstorf sea level scare

67 posted on 06/25/2012 9:54:37 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?)
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To: DoughtyOne
Here’s something I think folks are missing.

I agree that water will find it’s own level, but here’s another aspect of this that the Gorebal Worming nuts are missing.

If water rises in one area, it must therefore sink in another.

The claim of the rising sea water with global warming is caused be melting ice on lands like Greenland and Antarctica. They are not claiming the same volume of water moving, but an increasing volume in total.

68 posted on 06/25/2012 10:00:26 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Evacuate Rochester...
Holder's people. You'd get the same results as New Orleans and Katrina.
I've been saying for 30+ years they ought to bulldoze the city into the lake and start over.
Saint Lawrence River "reverse flow" would do the same thing, just in the opposite direction.
69 posted on 06/25/2012 10:01:47 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Same for the west coast as well.


70 posted on 06/25/2012 10:05:06 AM PDT by bgill
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To: cripplecreek
Trying to catch up with California where they declared it was rising fastest the other day.

As others have said, beach erosion. Scientists have said so in regards to rising waters along the California coast. Beaches have been eroding, the sand gets taken to the seabed under the water at the shore and makes the surf come in faster and takes bigger chunks of the shoreline. Lots of homes on cliffs are losing land and in danger. Has nothing to do with so-called global warming; this beach erosion is a natural process.

71 posted on 06/25/2012 10:26:50 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: SeekAndFind

I THINK this might be the explanation:

Warm water expands more than cooler water. If the Atlantic on the Eastern Seaboard is warmer, the water there will be “bigger.” Yes this bigger water will flow out of the Atlantic and cool elsewhere, but cooler water will then also flow into this warm zone and expand again, keeping the water level constantly higher.

Don’t hate me— I’m just trying to clarify what I think the theory is.


72 posted on 06/25/2012 10:31:50 AM PDT by agooga (Struggling every day to be worthy of their sacrifice.)
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To: eCSMaster
How can it rise more in one place than another? Maybe the Eastern coast is sinking?

That's the only thing that makes sense to me.

73 posted on 06/25/2012 10:37:46 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: agooga
Warm water expands

Best info I could find is that in a hot water tank, volume increase half gallon in a 40 gallon tank from 90 degrees to 140 degrees, that is .013 percent. NOTE THAT IS A 50 DEGREE INCREASE. Some one with better math skills can work this out for ocean volume increase for ocean for 1 degree. then convert volume increase to sea level increase.

In searching for “how much does water volume increase for every temp degree increase” the answer from a lib site was 9% which is the increase in volume for water freezing. facts don't matter to libs.

74 posted on 06/25/2012 10:42:30 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( (Lord, save me from some conservatives, they don't understand history any better than liberals.))
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To: SeekAndFind

Sea level has already risen 2 feet as of 2000.

In another 10 years it will have risen 10 feet. /sarcasm


75 posted on 06/25/2012 10:48:32 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: thackney

I expected to see that sort of response, but then there’s the replenishing of the polar ice-pack. So where did the water go down as that transpired?

If new record highs in the summers are proof of Gorebal Worming, what are record lows in the winter? Is it proof of Gorebal Cluing?


76 posted on 06/25/2012 10:51:17 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Remove all Democrats from the Republican party, and we won't have much Left, just a lot of Right.)
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To: mom.mom
Since we are a lot fatter than we used to be, perhaps we are displacing more as we swim?

Let's test your theory.

Shark!!!

77 posted on 06/25/2012 11:03:29 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Except the western seaboard is even worse.


78 posted on 06/25/2012 11:46:43 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: Durus

And plate tectonics doesn’t work fast enough.


79 posted on 06/25/2012 12:02:13 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Sacajaweau
"We're all gonna die drown!!!"

FMCDH(BITS)

80 posted on 06/25/2012 12:08:17 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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