Get prepared,we only have 89 years;)
Posted on 02/15/2011 7:09:19 PM PST by mdittmar
Researchers say rising sea levels will affect major U.S. coastal cities by 2100, with the Gulf and southern Atlantic coasts particularly hard hit.
Research led by University of Arizona scientists suggests rising levels could threaten an average of 9 percent of the land within 180 U.S. coastal cities by the end of the century.
The study is the first analysis of vulnerability to sea-level rise that includes every U.S. coastal city in the lower 48 states with a population of 50,000 or more, a UA release said Tuesday.
Scientific projections of global warming indicate that by 2100, the sea level will rise one meter -- about 3 feet.
"According to the most recent sea-level-rise science, that's where we're heading," said lead researcher Jeremy L. Weiss of UA's department of geosciences. "Impacts from sea-level rise could be erosion, temporary flooding and permanent inundation."
The coastal cities the team identified had a total of 40.5 million people living in them by 2000 U.S. Census figures, and 20 of them have more than 300,000 inhabitants.
"Our work should help people plan with more certainty and to make decisions about what level of sea-level rise, and by implication, what level of global warming, is acceptable to their communities and neighbors," said co-author Jonathan T. Overpeck, a UA professor of geosciences and of atmospheric sciences.
I thought Obama was going to fix this?
Does anyone find it particularly odd that the University of Arizona is doing this research? Maybe it’s just me?
They promised us warm weather, and ‘children would only read about snow’.
Let them deliver on that first.
I wish I had a nickel for everyone of these stupid predictions based upon unproven computer models ... I’d be wealthy beyond my wildest dreams.
Is there anyone left who still believes this stuff?
Predictive global warming models: Garbage in, garbage out.
I’m glad I got my geosciences degree from U of A when they were still doing meaningful research. No doubt they got a big bundle of Uncle Sam’s cash to continue to push Al Gore’s global warming crap. I feel sorry for the students who come out of there who are brainwashed with unscientific facts.
I can't wait to get my hands on some beachfront property in Greenland.
Just think, those "hydrogen gas generator" automobile scam gadgetry threads will be back soon, too.
Have the so called “scientists” and their droves of loons ever gotten one of these apocalyptic predictions correct? Weren’t we already supposed to be underwater and hip deep in trash and flaming icecaps like 10 years ago?
How can anyone possibly take these people seriously? This is money wasted that could be used to cure diseases or fund useful research.
Damn, I’ll miss it - I’ll be dead already.
Remember, for the exalted one, Lord Obama, its "Together we thrive."
I think it’s one of those “Ocean Front Property In Arizona” things. Or it could be the freezing weather they experienced this winter. LOL! Those jackasses aren’t used to the cold.
Yes. According to Mr. Obama himself, the moment that "the seas began to recede" was in July of 2008.
I like when they use Venice as an illustration of the sea level already rising, as though the ocean can rise there without rising here. Pretty stupid stuff, batted about by losers who haven’t had a cause since the war in Vietnam ended...
They can get back to me when the first beachside hotel is flooded with non-storm, non-tsunami -related water.
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