US could see a century’s worth of sea rise in just 30 years

The Associated Press ^ | February 15, 2022 | By SETH BORENSTEIN (D-AP)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The seas lapping against America’s coastlines are rising ever faster and will be 10 to 12 inches higher by the year 2050, with major Eastern cities hit regularly with costly floods even on sunny days, a government report says.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and six other federal agencies issued a 111-page report Tuesday that warns of “significant consequences” from rising seas in the next few decades, with parts of Louisiana and Texas projected to see waters a foot and a half (0.45 meters) higher.

However, the worst of the long-term sea level rise from the melting of ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland probably won’t kick in until after 2100, the study’s lead author said.

Because of climate change, the nation’s coastlines on average will see as much sea level rise in the next 30 years as they did in the previous century , said lead author William Sweet, an oceanographer for NOAA’s National Ocean Service.

While higher seas cause much more damage when storms such as hurricanes hit the coast, they are becoming a problem even on sunny days.

[Army Air Corps]

“Could”
“Perhaps”
“Study Suggests”

[robel]

Science fiction.

[Persevero]

When Obama, Streisand, Gore and DeCaprio have a fire sale in their beachfront properties I might think they mean it.

[DarrellZero]

Uh huh, got it, doomed.

What’s for lunch?

[PGR88]

Or not

Just spit-ballin’ here....

[brownsfan]

Who cares? Aren’t we all going to be dead in like, 10 years? Or does that 12 year claim never change?

[proust]

Good, accurately tell me the weather a week from now.

[Magnum44]

The seas lapping against America’s coastlines are rising ever faster and will be 10 to 12 inches higher by the year 2050

BS. I did the math on this in another thread a month or two ago. Melt all the ice in all the glaciers in the entire world and you might get 1/2" sea level rise.

[cdcdawg]

I thought that Obama had solved that just by existing.

[McCarthysGhost]

There must be trillions in the globull hoax for the overlords. Unfortunately for them the western countries are starting to run out of money.

[Vision]

Or not.

[bk1000]

Anyone buying this likely also wears a mask when driving alone.

[V_TWIN]

Forget it Jake.....it’s the ay pee.

[Steely Tom]

Who cares? Aren’t we all going to be dead in like, 10 years? Or does that 12 year claim never change?

I've forgotten A-O-C's scientific prediction. Something like 9 years at this point.

[Vision]

Obama did promise that.

[Track9]

And HRC could go to jail.

[rktman]

CLIMAGEDDON!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan]

I’m still waiting for the mini ICE AGE they promised me in grade school... and for all the fish to die from acid rain.

[Carriage Hill]

Coulda, woulda, shoulda... BS article from the scumbags at AP.