is this theoretical flooding due to sea-level rise or the possibility that the land on which Seattle sits is subsiding?
or a combination of both?
Translation: We predict 5,000 homes underwater by 2100. But, since nearly everyone alive today will be dead then, you will never be able to test our prediction against the facts.
six feet. LOL
Chances are a Richter scale 9 quake and resulting tsunami will remove most of the lower lying structures from Vancouver down to LA well before then.
Report: Rising sea levels could fail to flood even 1 in 200 Seattle-area homes by end of century
Well, there's the first glitch in the analysis. The government, id est, Democrat lifers pushing propaganda, is hardly an unbiased surveyor of data.
The government science report predicts that sea levels may rise more slowly across the Pacific Northwest than in other parts of the country.
Huh? Aren't the oceans all connected? Is there some geologic caveat that abrogates the levels of water over the planet?
What a scare mongering article.
Sea levels have risen less than a foot since 1880 (137 years). But according to the Seattle Times, they'll rise six feet in the next 82 years.
Sea levels are receding not rising. Why are they receding? Arctic and Antarctic ice increases.
I’m still waiting for the Artic ice to melt and stay melted since 2013 when Algore said it would. So far, it hasn’t done that.
Who cares?
I predict that by the year 3000, that 2% of sidewalks in Minneapolis will become too cracked to use. Oh the humanity!
.....or monkeys could fly out my butt...............
uh huh
“The homes would flood if local sea levels rise at least six feet due to the warming climate.”
Current DAILY tidal range in Seattle is 11 feet.
If your home is vertically closer to the ocean at high tide than the daily tidal change, you’re gonna lose it just from big waves or storm surges within a few years.
Don’t worry they used the word “Could”
From the Michael Crichton speech at Caltech, “Aliens cause global warming”.
“”Stepping back, I have to say the arrogance of the model-makers is breathtaking. There have been, in every century, scientists who say they know it all. Since climate may be a chaotic system-no one is sure-these predictions are inherently doubtful, to be polite. But more to the point, even if the models get the science spot-on, they can never get the sociology. To predict anything about the world a hundred years from now is simply absurd.
Look: If I was selling stock in a company that I told you would be profitable in 2100, would you buy it? Or would you think the idea was so crazy that it must be a scam?
Let’s think back to people in 1900 in, say, New York. If they worried about people in 2000, what would they worry about? Probably: Where would people get enough horses? And what would they do about all the horse****?
Horse pollution was bad in 1900, think how much worse it would be a century later, with so many more people riding horses? But of course, within a few years, nobody rode horses except for sport.
And in 2000, France was getting 80% its power from an energy source that was unknown in 1900. Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Japan were getting more than 30% from this source, unknown in 1900. Remember, people in 1900 didn’t know what an atom was.
They didn’t know its structure. They also didn’t know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, IBM, IRA, ERA, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, internet. interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, prozac, leotards, lap dancing, email, tape recorder, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, teflon, fiber optics, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS. None of this would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900. They wouldn’t know what you are talking about.
Now. You tell me you can predict the world of 2100. Tell me it’s even worth thinking about. Our models just carry the present into the future. They’re bound to be wrong. Everybody who gives a moment’s thought knows it.”
Kansas comes to mind. Bwahaha...
Of course, no facts to support the hysteria.
Look at NOAA’s own official sea level rise charts for Seattle.
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=9447130
Sea levels in Seattle rise .61 feet per century. Not real good at math, but to go up six feet it will take something like 1100 years.
And I could be alive to see it, the probability of either happening is slim to none.
Climate change = garbage in, garbage out...