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Study predicts sea level rise for cities
UPI ^ | Feb. 15, 2011 | UPI

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax
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To: mdittmar

Invest in Dutch Civil Engineering companies. They’ll have work for decades.


41 posted on 02/15/2011 7:59:52 PM PST by muleskinner
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To: TAP ONLINE
You guys really don’t get it. For the next 80 years we are going to have excessive snowfall. When it melts it has no where to go but out to sea. See the sea levels will rise.
Q.E.D.

Mensa reject alert!
And where, pray tell, will the water come from to create the biblical deluge of snow?

Mars?

42 posted on 02/15/2011 8:02:38 PM PST by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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To: Grams A

I thought the Colorado river dumps into the sea of cortez it is navigability by inner tube I think


43 posted on 02/15/2011 8:03:16 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom!!! <sarc>)
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To: Horusra

What if these Warmer scientists are really, really wrong? All this time, money, & effort spent to prevent & prepare for higher temps., & just the opposite happens - we have an ice age.

Mankind could be ill prepared for the reality vs. the myth.


44 posted on 02/15/2011 8:04:10 PM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: Publius6961

Great link, thanks!

These “scientists” could never come back with a report that says “no problem”. They would lose their grant, the bureaucratic auditor would lose a project, a politician would lose a scare tactic and the “saviors of the planet” would have return to their meaningless existence.


45 posted on 02/15/2011 8:07:40 PM PST by trubolotta
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To: mdittmar
Blah, blah, blah. The GW nutters must think that enough time has passed since they were unmasked as frauds that they can now start spewing this BS again.
46 posted on 02/15/2011 8:11:33 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (Redistribution = theft.)
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To: crz

And all those people could cause islands to tip too!


47 posted on 02/15/2011 8:15:32 PM PST by pepperdog (Why are Democrats Afraid of a Voter ID Law?)
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To: mdittmar
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.

Hedge your bets much? Come back when you know something for certain and are willing to hang what's left of your professional reputation on it.

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.

Coastal cities are vulnerable to sea-level changes? Whoa, who would've thought! Like, tides, storm surge, etc.? Next thing you know, they'll discover northern cities are vulnerable to snowstorms, blizzards, and ice storms. Or that midwest cities are vulnerable to violent weather such as tornadoes. Egads, I'll bet cities in flood plains are, gulp, vulnerable to flooding! Cities on fault lines are probably vulnerable to earthquakes, but we better blow a few hundred million in porkus money just to be sure.

48 posted on 02/15/2011 8:25:50 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: mdittmar

Sooner or later they’re going to guess right on something.


49 posted on 02/15/2011 8:26:00 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul)
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To: blackdog

There is a Arizona realtor on the line and he wants to sell you some ocean front property...


50 posted on 02/15/2011 8:28:59 PM PST by tubebender (The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in Eureka...)
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To: mdittmar

OUR MOTHER-EFFING DEBT WILL DESTROY THE COUNTRY BEFORE GLOBAL WARMING BS EVER WILL.


51 posted on 02/15/2011 8:38:19 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

Indeed. Also note that apparently the year 2100 is the best time to decide if their prediction is true or false. I’d be surprised if they also have related and similarly-supported predictions like “half a meter rise in 45 years”, as it’s better for business to prevent exposure of the scam for as long as possible.


52 posted on 02/15/2011 9:06:36 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: mdittmar; a fool in paradise; JoeProBono

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE DROWN!


53 posted on 02/15/2011 9:09:09 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Publius6961

Humor is a rare commodity here. Let me add to it. I was told the EPA will not let snow be dumped in lakes or streams in Ohio. When it melts it goes into streams and lakes. Its ok cause it’s natural Q.e.d. Sarcasm


54 posted on 02/15/2011 9:13:27 PM PST by TAP ONLINE ( Democrats are Scorpions, you get the ride you deserve)
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To: mdittmar

Surfs up!


55 posted on 02/15/2011 9:30:26 PM PST by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

So the sea level is going to rise three feet
in 89 years...how much has it risen in the last
89 Years?

I thought so.


56 posted on 02/15/2011 9:33:07 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: mdittmar
Yikes... this does not sound good.

======================
 
The Washington Post
 
"The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
 
"Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelt which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds. Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable."
 
Oops.. I apologize.
 
I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922.
As reported by the AP and published in
The Washington Post……… 88 years ago!

57 posted on 02/15/2011 9:38:27 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: mdittmar

Don’t worry, all those mercury filled light bulbs will save us all! Just hand over your wallets and all will be well ;)


58 posted on 02/15/2011 9:52:55 PM PST by Trillian
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To: cpdiii

I know the sea is not rising; Venice is sinking because it is built on a swamp (like former Giants Stadium up here in our Meadowlands, sinking a few inches each year).


59 posted on 02/16/2011 3:02:27 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: mdittmar
It's not so much rising oceans but rather that the dems are flushing this country down the toilet.
60 posted on 02/16/2011 3:32:08 AM PST by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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