Seas Are Rising at Fastest Rate in Last 28 Centuries

New York Times ^ | February 22, 2016 | By JUSTIN GILLIS

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The oceans are rising faster than at any point in the last 28 centuries, and human emissions of greenhouse gases are primarily responsible, scientists reported Monday.

They added that the flooding that is starting to make life miserable in many coastal towns - like Miami Beach; Norfolk, Va.; and Charleston, S.C. - was largely a consequence of those emissions, and that it is likely to grow worse in coming years.

The ocean could rise as much as three or four feet by 2100, as ocean water expands and the great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica begin to collapse.

Experts say the situation will grow far worse in the 22nd century and beyond, likely requiring the abandonment of many of the world's coastal cities.

Scientists already knew that the sea level rose drastically at the end of the last ice age, by almost 400 feet, causing shorelines to retreat by up to 100 miles in places. They also knew that the sea level had basically stabilized, like the rest of the climate, over the past several thousand years, the period when human civilization arose and spread across the earth.

[HiTech RedNeck]

They are no longer truth seekers. They are a priesthood of their own mystery. Which doesn’t even claim to stay the same except for its “Thou shalt panic” mandate. Somehow that stays the same.

[Smokin' Joe]

Consider that the problem has been concocted partially to fund college campuses, and partly to make energy so expensive people will be herded into hives from the hinterlands (Agenda 21).

Making those places so..>ahem< overwhelmingly aromatic that they would be avoided should take care of the problem that exists only to fund universities, special interests, and make urban real estate worth more.

I think the no flush solution is viable. (8^D)

[Smokin' Joe]

Consider that the problem has been concocted partially to fund college campuses, and partly to make energy so expensive people will be herded into hives from the hinterlands (Agenda 21).

Making those places so..>ahem< overwhelmingly aromatic that they would be avoided should take care of the problem that exists only to fund universities, special interests, and make urban real estate worth more.

I think the no flush solution is viable. (8^D)

[BwanaNdege]

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

“this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal ...”

Barack Obama

[HiTech RedNeck]

More like scab over, than heal...

[jughandle]

I said it before and I’ll say it again...here by the beach the ocean is at about the same spot on the inlet wall as it was when I was a little kid some 40 years ago. Sometimes the tide is pretty high and sometimes it’s pretty low.

Sorry, just haven’t seen any rise in the sea levels firsthand.

[al baby]

Because our forefathers built chit to last !!!

[al baby]

Barney Rubble was one hell of an actor !!!

[Pontiac]

They are no longer truth seekers. They are a priesthood of their own mystery.

Well that's handy.

At least they can write their own gospel.

[JimRed]

Same old lie, told louder.

[IrishBrigade]

Aaaaaaannnd what was the reason before the warming boogieman?

Sports Utility Chariots...

[skimbell]

I thought that Homobama was going to fix all this chit.

[WorksinKOP]

I think your onto something. If you add to that, some form of distribution center for the finances. Something organized?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well if gospel = God’s spell, then this stuff is something like demonspel. Notice that it is always predicting doom and gloom, right at the doors?

[Tenacious 1]

I once postulated to a liberal, while living in CA, that we simply need to build huge pumps and lots of pipe along CA. We could pump sea water directly into death Valley Arizona and turn that basin into a salt water lake. Then the whole area habitat would change and spur life while simultaneously lowering sea levels. The evaporation of the huge lake would affect the surrounding dessert and could create farm land just the same way they did for the central CA dessert. Before they stopped irrigating the central CA desert region, they had lush farm land. It works. If it weren't for those pesky smelt, we could still have a vibrant vast farming area in the middle of CA. Think of Death Valley in 100 years as a new forest with millions of lush green vegetation absorbing CO2 and providing rich oxygen. He argued that you couldn't build a system that big and it wouldn't affect the sea level. Uhm, hello? Alaskan pipe line? Duh! But it wouldn't lower the sea level because all water makes it's way back to the sea. I really began to screw with him when I suggested "It's really just a timing issue. What we need to do is control the rate at which water actually goes back into the ocean. We should build more damns. Think what would happen if we could divert the Mississippi river. AND remember that Panama Canal Project? That must have lowered sea level. We could just dig big holes in the ocean and pile the spoils on land. That would help too." He continued to insist that none of this would work because it's just too insignificant. I then proved it with the 5 gallon bucket argument. Finally I asked him to define "insignificant".

FINALLY - Let's talk about the amount of CO2 that is in the atmosphere as a % and what % of that is from human use of energy (insignificant).

Now that's fun when their heads explode. Because THAT calculation is NOT insignificant and I "just don't understand science." LOL!

[samtheman]

Thats why they are pointedly NOT working on a sanity pill. For one thing, how would they pick the control?

[JimRed]

Is this article from the 1980s?

Weren't they still whining about the coming ice age due to pollution in the 80s?

[Tenacious 1]

Sorry, just haven’t seen any rise in the sea levels firsthand.

Well, you have gotten taller since then. Maybe it's just a perspective thing.

[Charles Martel]

Damned SUV's!

The SUVs are innocent! It's all Gilligan's fault. He used the Professor's tide depth gauge/stick to anchor the lobster trap, moving it into deeper and deeper water.

[teeman8r]

the might have stepped out of the office once or twice, but i am sure they would have noted any rising tides if there had been... heck, they clocked the end of the world didn’t they...