Study predicts sea level rise for cities

UPI ^ | Feb. 15, 2011 | UPI

[muleskinner]

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

[Publius6961]

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?

[al baby]

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

[Mister Da]

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.

[trubolotta]

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.

[Major Matt Mason]

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.

[pepperdog]

And all those people could cause islands to tip too!

[ThunderSleeps]

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.

[Iron Munro]

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

[tubebender]

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

[Secret Agent Man]

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

[jiggyboy]

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.

[Revolting cat!]

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE DROWN!

[TAP ONLINE]

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

[Nowhere Man]

Surfs up!

[tet68]

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.

[VideoDoctor]

Yikes... this does not sound good.

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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!

[Trillian]

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

[kearnyirish2]

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).

[outofsalt]

It's not so much rising oceans but rather that the dems are flushing this country down the toilet.