Scientists find "unprecedented" rates of sea level rise along some U.S. coasts that's 3 times higher than global average

CBS ^ | 04 11 2023 | Li Cohen

[jy8z]

I’ll never be able to trust my four foot level again.

[taxesareforever]

Probably measured 1/1000 of an inch. Watch all the homes float away.

[Nervous Tick]

>> We’ve lost the Florida Keys. Half of Miami is gone. Baton Rouge is underwater. It’s all in the news.

HOW could I have missed that??!? Do you have a link?

:-)

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Couldn’t be that those areas are “sinking” could it?

Nah!

(Think: earthquakes)

[5th MEB]

My Bachelors degree was in Fluid Dynamics, screw the Nobel Prize, I WANT THE GRANT MONEY

[5th MEB]

Yeah; I learned that in 4th or 5th grade I think.

[5th MEB]

Yeah; I learned that in 4th or 5th grade I think.

[lepton]

sea levels in those regions

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But for some reason, not in others. Hmmm. What could they be measuring?

[lepton]

Because sea level isn’t actually ‘flat’. It rises and falls in a long-term way associated with where the ocean currents are pointing. This is in addition to relatively static clustering higher over dense spots in the earth’s crust and near islands and continents.

[lepton]

This data from JASON is also of interest:

https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/documents/hdbk_j3_2022.pdf

Pages 16, 50 and 52 are most relevant.

[ronnie raygun]

Scientists who rely solely on government for their sustenance

[Hardastarboard]

since 2010, sea level rise along the nation's Southeast and Gulf coasts has ramped up dramatically

Why, yes, I can explain why the sea level is higher in this region. You see, people in that area of the US are climate change non-believers. By publishing this fake news, they hope to scare them into being believers.

[Canadian Nationalist]

The saddest part is a lot of dimbulbs will actually fall for this utter twaddle.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Nonsense. You heard it hear first: Water seeks its own level. Sea level isn’t rising faster in one place than another, land is subsiding.

[fedupjohn]

Since water seeks it's own level, it must be that too many people are moving to the South the the USA is sinking there. lol.

We better be careful or it might tip over. LMAO Src/

[maddog55]

My guess is this finding will be nullified when scientist discover they took the previous measurements at low tide.

[pas]

I saw this episode. Gilligan is moving the stake. (Spoiler alert)

[trebb]

And, just like that, water levels no longer work...

Land may be sinking, but the seas can’t selectively rise in some areas and not others...

[ScottinVA]

I travel daily over the York River, which draws directly from the Cheseapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean. There isn’t a damned bit of change to that level.

[ScottinVA]

including vertical land motion, ice-mass loss and air pressure, but that "none of them could sufficiently explain" the rampant rise.

Well, gee... maybe they might want to do a bit of research on the topic.

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/volcanoes.html#:~:text=Submarine%20volcanic%20eruptions%20are%20characteristic,moving%20away%20from%20each%20other