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."
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The mention of Deltaville brings back a lot of memories. We kept our first boat there at Norview Marina. A great place for cruising and striper fishing.
Sea level rising even while the satellite records state no global warming for 18 years. Now that is a shock. Obviously atmospheric temps had nothing to do with it.
And I can assure the world that the sea water levels at Hermosa Beach, California are exactly where they have been since 1960. Hermosa Beach is attached to the Pacific Ocean, the largest body of water on the planet.
Now Orleans and Venice. Of course, the water level is rising - because both cities are sinking.
Not true. The world’s oceans were at “sea level” a million years ago, and they are sea level now.
You know, you are RIGHT about that! LOL!
“The new method uses statistical analysis and computer models to better simulate the areas in the gap.”
That says it all. They write programs in which their programmed assumptions bias the results from the computer models in favor of their assumptions and in the absence of hard empirical evidence. That is how they’ve been building the “global warming” agenda all along, filing in the gaps with their assumptions.
Would we build a spaceship today to “take advantage” of the mathematical assumptions in string theory? No. Why? String theory may be a neat mathematical construct in physics but it is without empirical evidence that it reflects the real - as opposed to the theoretical - construction of the universe. Yet we are supposed to behave differently when mere computer models of the as yet not fantastically understood climate suggest the sky is falling.
God declares, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, however evil his inclinations may be from his youth upwards. I will never again kill every living creature, as I have just done. While the earth lasts seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall never cease” (Gen.8: 21,22)
“I can assure the world that at Deltaville, Va, the sea water levels are exactly where they have been since 1966.”
Who are you going to believe: a certified Ivy League scientist or you own amateur eyes? Perhaps you need glasses. I am sitting in my beach chair, high in the Rockies, just waiting for the time when I can slip into my bathing suit. People who deny climate change are racist, homophobic, McCarthy followers. Now that should end the debate.
When the wealthy leftist fundraisers of the Democrat party start unloading their prime coastal real estate ahead of the sea level rise, then I’ll believe they believe it.
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Computer models reflect nothing but the inputs, which are subject to the opinions of the programmer.
I was at Virginia Beach two summers ago. Global Warming must be horrific there. The ocean rose and fell EVERYDAY! Just awful. It destroyed sand castles, erased foot paths and left plant and shell debris on the beach.
I’ve seen aquatic fossils at the Bighorn Mountains, 1,000 miles from our present seashore line, and thousands of feet above today’s sea level.
I have no doubt the planet has undergone many changes, but I doubt mankind is powerful enough to hold off sea level changes, no matter the cause.
I currently reside at about 10 ft. above sea level, and there has been no discussion locally about sea level rise.
Some statistics claim an increasing rate of rise, of one inch every 8 to ten years, since 1990.
That is 24 years of date, or less; hardly a basis for major panic, or even of the ability to determine the reason for the rise.
What was the reason for previous rises and drops, throughout history.
It’s rising at a rate or 2 mm per century instead of the previously thought of 1 mm per century.
If sea level were actually rising, all the city signs would be replaced with fan fare to say “2 feet lower”. But they aren’t.
The Lions are drowning in Africa.
Subsidence happens.
From different sources, sometimes the same sources, we see that there is more ice year to year in the Greenland cap and in the Antarctic cap and that both caps are melting and raising the sea level.
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