It has NEVER been flat or stable. Why do we expect it to be stable now?
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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The highest rate of Leftist data crunching appears to be taking place along the U.S. East Coast.
It has NEVER been flat or stable. Why do we expect it to be stable now?
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.
This gives us a big trade advantage. Ships from Europe have to sail up hill to get here and ours can cost down hill.
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.
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.
Same for the west coast as well.
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.
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.
That's the only thing that makes sense to me.
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.
Sea level has already risen 2 feet as of 2000.
In another 10 years it will have risen 10 feet. /sarcasm
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?
Let's test your theory.
Shark!!!
Except the western seaboard is even worse.
And plate tectonics doesn’t work fast enough.
FMCDH(BITS)
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