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Seas Are Rising at Fastest Rate in Last 28 Centuries
New York Times ^ | February 22, 2016 | By JUSTIN GILLIS

Posted on 02/22/2016 12:56:48 PM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: New York; US: South Carolina; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: antarctic; antarctica; charleston; climategate; florida; greenland; hoax; miamibeach; newyork; norfolk; oceans; socialism; southcarolina; virginia
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Stefan got paid a lot of money to say this.

Too late though. New York city is already flooded.


141 posted on 02/22/2016 4:03:43 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: centurion316
I am a geologist. We're having fun making fun of the assininity of it all.

Unfortunately, those political idiots (who use the "settled science" to support additional usurpations of power and rights) have helped make a mockery of real science.

It's embarrassing.

I remember when magazines like National Geographic and Scientific American were more respectable, but sadly, that has changed.

It will take a century to gouge out the last of this folly, and we haven't really started yet.

If these idiots keep screwing with energy producing industries, we will have a literal 'dark age' to go along with the cloud hanging over rational thought.

But it is the 'Information Age'. All we have to do is wait until people figure out that 'information' is not necessarily 'knowledge', and that neither alone equals 'wisdom'.

142 posted on 02/22/2016 4:05:35 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Unfortunately, the credibility of science is being sacrificed


143 posted on 02/22/2016 4:17:22 PM PST by centurion316
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Get real. That’s a coupe.


144 posted on 02/22/2016 4:40:19 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: redhead
"has anybody thought of the possibility that the land masses may be subsiding?"

Bingo! We have a winah.

Most of the east coast of North America is a submergent coast, characterized by long shore bars, coastal islands, inland waterways and marshy ocean-land interfaces. The west coast is an emergent coast characterized by sea cliffs, rocky shorelines, tombolos...the east coast is sinking, the west is rising.
The sinking of many islands can also be easily 'splained...coral islands and reefs are formed by living single celled critters and as the islands increase in mass, they weight the living reef and it SLOWLY sinks. Not too complicated...oh, and carbon dioxide has never been proven to have anything to do with climate change...nothing, zippo, nada.

145 posted on 02/22/2016 4:43:31 PM PST by Cuttnhorse
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To: centurion316
I agree. All we can do is to continue to point out the lack of good science and refute it as best we can without the data. I signed the The Petition Project back when and had hoped that over 31,000 of us urging the Government not to sign The Kyoto Accord, might have some effect.

Well, maybe it did, but there are those who claim that because some of the signatories were not in climate or earth science (Medicine was a common one as well--but a scientist is a scientist.) that the petition was somehow bogus. They needed to try that because 31,000+ scientists does nasty things to memes like "consensus" and "settled science".

FRiend, you are not alone. There are many of us disgusted with what is being done, not only to our chosen professions, but to the children who are being indoctrinated with this neoLysenkoism.

146 posted on 02/22/2016 4:56:24 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: WorksinKOP

“If you add to that, some form of distribution center for the finances. Something organized?”

Well domestically I’d set up a Carbon Exchange out of Chicago and have Goldman-Sachs manage it. Globally the UN would coordinate things to make sure it’s fair for the little, poor countries.


147 posted on 02/22/2016 6:12:46 PM PST by DBrow
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To: Vermont Lt

“Some believe...”??? Those “some” are the same people who write and watch Ancient Alien BS. Could it be that “some” are gullible fools?


148 posted on 02/22/2016 8:05:32 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: eddie willers

If it wasn’t the Phoenicians, then it was the Antediluvians...........


149 posted on 02/23/2016 6:18:58 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Red Badger

Caesar was a RINO.


150 posted on 02/23/2016 8:10:30 AM PST by eddie willers
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To: DesertRhino

Sounds like sacramento on the american and sacramento rivers. If you walk old town you can see the alleys go down a story to what was the original street level. They built it up one level and bilgy eves along the river. In the law 1980s there was a serious rainfall and for a day you couldn’t get out of scaramento in any direction. I-5 south was covered up to an overpass. I guess global warming got an early start there.


151 posted on 02/23/2016 8:16:06 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: morphing libertarian

built levees


152 posted on 02/23/2016 8:16:34 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The islands must be rising too... because NONE of them are under water yet...


153 posted on 02/23/2016 9:32:58 AM PST by GOPJ ("Please explain why Hillary Clinton felt the need to own a private server." H.A. Goodman - Salon)
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To: eddie willers

Carthage was destroyed before Caesar was born.........................


154 posted on 02/23/2016 9:57:49 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: hal ogen

No, they are actually geologists who find a consistent layer of soot and silt, along with Micro diamonds, high concentration of platinum, a hexagonal crystals that all formed when a high pressure, high temp impact event happens.

Or maybe God put them there with the Dinosaur bones when he created the earth, 3,500 years ago.


155 posted on 02/23/2016 12:40:49 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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