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 ...
The Biggest Science Lie in the World.
And completely agreed upon by everyone with a humanities degree.
The first statement may be a valid observation, but the second is just conjecture. I.e., the typical alarmist propaganda strategy.
Every time you flush your toilet, the water has to go somewhere.
Eventually that water ends up in the ocean.
Now where are there huge concentrations of toilets?
Cities and College Campuses.
If all the people in cities and on college campuses just stopped flushing their toilets...that'd take care of the problem right there.
Good point. Now, how can we cause another ice age and regain all that land mass that has been lost to Global Warming? We are going to need to make the planet cold enough for ice sheets a couple miles thick to cover North America down to about I-70. Then we'll be able to walk to Cuba and Russia and Hawaii will have another half dozen islands. Think of the real estate potential. It will make everybody RICH!
(Do I need a cynical tag on this or is it obvious enough?)
this is BS
I am around the Pacific Ocean EVERY DAY
and it has not perceptively risen one bit .
same same
Mrs. Henkster and I went to Orange Beach, AL, in October 2014. We went back, same week, October 2015.
I didn’t notice a difference. There were a few better restaurants, though.
And if they believe that, they could save up to 15% on car insurance by calling...
“””So glad they had 2800 years worth of data to base this upon /epic sarc””””
You must not know much about sciency stuff. If you have some plutonium, a flux capacitor and a DeLorean you can go back in time and collect the data. That is prolly what they did.
Unfortunately the climate change global warming theory was that the Great Lakes cycle of going up and down would end, and they would perpetually get lower.
It was one of the last predictions made by the warmists that proved false. They were trumpeting the low lake levels three years ago as proof of their stupid theory.
Now that the lake levels are above the mean, I love getting my neighbors on the lake to blush when I remind them......
They pump sand up onto the beach every winter.
“One is the massive redistribution of wealth and liberty”
Yes, that’s my global socialist economy!
No, as a matter of fact, they're not. Of course the NY Slimes has a history of printing ridiculous lies about the climate, such as, circa late 1990s, that the North Pole ice had melted for the first time in millions of years.
the mayans kept impeccable records.
I noticed that hunting for old bottles in the tidewater where I grew up, and some of the most miserable weather (windy, cold, reverse storm surge, spring low tides) was the best for finding 'stuff'.
“...roughly three-quarters of the tidal floods now occurring in towns along the American East Coast would not be happening in the absence of sea-level rise caused by human emissions.”
And yet this same article says the oceans have only risen 8” since 1880? I don’t even know how they can come up with that number to be honest.
You're right, but the height of the sea wall doesn't change. And it's the same level now that's it's been for years. I made the point about the width of the beach because the loons crying sea level rise point to beach erosion as proof of their claim.
Yes, indeed, you will measure "sea level rise" there too.
Were the Mayans keeping records at every ocean around the world? That seems to be the claim here.
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