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Study: Sea Level Rise Accelerating More Than Once Thought
ABC News ^ | January 14, 2015 | By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer

Posted on 01/14/2015 10:46:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The world's oceans are now rising far faster than they did in the past, a new $tudy says.

The current sea level rise rate — which started in 1990 — is 2.5 times faster than it was from 1900 to 1990, according to a $tudy published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Scientists say that faster pace of sea level rise is from melting ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica and shrinking glaciers, triggered by man-made global warming.

"We're seeing a significant acceleration in the past few decades," said $tudy lead author Carling Hay, a geophysical researcher at Harvard University.

The new method uses statistical analysis and computer models to better simulate the areas in the gap.

Outside scientists praised the new $tudy, but were still cautious about adopting the estimates until more $tudies could be done.

"The implications are troubling — accelerated ocean warming, ice sheet collapse and sea level rise — all point to more and more sea level rise in the future, perhaps at a faster rate than previously thought," said Jonathan Overpeck, co-director of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona. "This will make adaptation to climate change more difficult and costly."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: carlinghay; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; jonathanoverpeck; marxism; socialism
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1 posted on 01/14/2015 10:46:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

B-B-But Obama was supposed to have fixed that.


2 posted on 01/14/2015 10:46:37 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They must be using the same measuring stick Gilligan used to set his lobster traps with that the Professor used to measure the sea level in the lagoon......................


3 posted on 01/14/2015 10:47:32 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

perhaps at a faster rate than previously thought,

perhaps he says....

lets base our entire future an a whole batch of these “perhapses”


4 posted on 01/14/2015 10:47:55 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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The new method uses statistical analysis and computer models to better simulate the areas in the gap.

Horse Hockey Puck!

5 posted on 01/14/2015 10:48:00 AM PST by AU72
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To: left that other site

Totally fraudulent reporting, since the cause of both meltings is magma.


6 posted on 01/14/2015 10:48:02 AM PST by alancarp
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Looks like we’re all gonna die...AGAIN!


7 posted on 01/14/2015 10:48:05 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sea level used to be 20 to 30 feet higher some 9,000 years ago when global warming peaked.


8 posted on 01/14/2015 10:49:31 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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9 posted on 01/14/2015 10:50:10 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Overpeck is a shyster...

Overpeck Likes $$$ from Big Oil

10 posted on 01/14/2015 10:50:37 AM PST by Regulator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I am so gullible. When all this sea-rise bunk started, I purchased inexpensive property between 1/4 and 1/2 mile from the ocean, hoping it would become ocean front property. I guess I got caught holding the bag. (just kidding)


11 posted on 01/14/2015 10:50:55 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (#JuSuisCharlesMartel)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer , is a rabid, drooling leftist. He is also the laughing stock of the entire scientific community.


12 posted on 01/14/2015 10:51:49 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fascinating conclusion considering Antarctic sea ICD is at record level and that for every Glacier that is shrinking there are 3 that are growing.


13 posted on 01/14/2015 10:52:13 AM PST by CMAC51
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I can assure the world that at Deltaville, Va, the sea water levels are exactly where they have been since 1966. Deltaville is on the a tidal creek attached to the Chesapeake Bay, which is attached to the Atlantic Ocean and all the other oceans.

So just where is this sea water rising?


14 posted on 01/14/2015 10:53:51 AM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

B..Bu..But scrubama promised in his 2008 rat coronation speech that ocean levels would begin to fall once he was elected.
What gives?


15 posted on 01/14/2015 10:53:55 AM PST by rhinohunter (Freepers aren't booing -- they're yelling "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They been a doing their measuring at high tide again I see :)
16 posted on 01/14/2015 10:53:55 AM PST by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Rising everywhere?

Nope.

Sinking in other places?

Yes.

Let’s see some NUMBERS, MSM.

You know, those things that drove idiots like you out of the STEM subjects and into journalism.


17 posted on 01/14/2015 10:54:00 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Jack Hydrazine

10,000 years ago the city I live in was covered with almost 2 miles of ice. Yes, ice!.


18 posted on 01/14/2015 10:54:50 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The current sea level rise rate — which started in 1990 — is 2.5 times faster than it was from 1900 to 1990.

From a statistical significance perspective, comparing the period of 1990 to today vs. 1900 to 1990 is about the same as saying the sea level increased 2 times more rapidly today than it did yesterday. These people are complete jokes.

19 posted on 01/14/2015 10:56:01 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Reporter caught lying about flood.

link.

20 posted on 01/14/2015 10:56:40 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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