The water in the picture is the Gulf of Mexico, which — as I understand it — is connected to the world's oceans.
I wonder if the people who've bought those houses regret having done so? Have the prices of Tiki Island homes crashed?
Posted on 02/03/2019 8:05:40 AM PST by Libloather
A new Tulane University study questions the reliability of how sea-level rise in low-lying coastal areas such as southern Louisiana is measured and suggests that the current method underestimates the severity of the problem. The research is the focus of a news article published this week in the journal Science.
Relative sea-level rise, which is a combination of rising water level and subsiding land, is traditionally measured using tide gauges. But researchers Molly Keogh and Torbjörn Törnqvist argue that in coastal Louisiana, tide gauges tell only a part of the story.
Tide gauges in such areas are anchored an average of 20 meters into the earth rather than at the ground surface. “As a result, tide gauges do not record subsidence occurring in the shallow subsurface and thus underestimate rates of relative sea-level rise,” said Keogh, a fifth-year PhD student and lead author of the study.
"This study shows that we need to completely rethink how we measure sea-level rise in rapidly subsiding coastal lowlands” said Törnqvist, Vokes Geology Professor in the Tulane School of Science and Engineering.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.tulane.edu ...
What are the seas rising in reference to? The center of the earth? The center of the galaxy? The center of Barack Obama’s head?
Did they just say the sea isn’t rising but the earth is sinking?
Well I suppose we better throw a couple million dollars in grants for this guy to get to the bottom of it!
Their science seems sound and properly applied to the problem of coastal subsidence, which is a major issue in Louisiana.
Yup. Sounds like a natural process to me....
Actually, the Bible indicates the seas will actually rise in the last days.
[T]he sea and the waves roaring. Luke 21:25.
But but but Lord Obama said that we would all look back upon his reign as the time when we saw the oceans began to recede.
Gilligan just moved to Lobster trap with the water level marker to deeper water
Malachi 4:1-2
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
But unto you that fear My name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings..
“how we measure sea-level rise”
Nothing like making the conclusion before you do the measurement, huh Tor-Born the BlissNinny Norwegian?
The water in the picture is the Gulf of Mexico, which — as I understand it — is connected to the world's oceans.
I wonder if the people who've bought those houses regret having done so? Have the prices of Tiki Island homes crashed?
The presence of all those National guardsmen is causing New Orleans to sink.
Yes.
And that the sky is falling.
The devise to measure sea rise was mistakenly put at the trough of the wave rather than the crest. GPS measurements made a huge mistake.
We had Algore’s earlier prediction. Aren’t we supposed to be underwater and polar bears all but extinct? It’s nutty. Invest in popcorn futures through 2032.
They now have to disregard all previous data and start again.
But where to start in measuring subsiding land and rising sea?
Is there a starting reference point in the geological record?
When did the land start sinking and the sea rising?
Just keep pushing that stick a tiny bit deeper into the muck each day...
“Twelve years startinggggggg - now!”
Yeh, and that monitoring station USED to be in the open—12 years and it’s in the shade now.....GLOBAL COOLING WARNINGS COMING !
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