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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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?


2 posted on 10/20/2017 12:13:58 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: txnativegop

Over the past 100+ years, sea levels have risen about 2 mm / year rather steadily. In order for sea levels to rise six feet by the end of the century, sea levels would have to rise 22 mm / year for the next 82 years ... more than 10x faster than we’ve seen.


4 posted on 10/20/2017 12:17:33 PM PDT by SSS Two
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To: txnativegop

All of these dire predictions are based on a reversal of Coriolis Force.


5 posted on 10/20/2017 12:17:40 PM PDT by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: txnativegop; Ernest_at_the_Beach

Sea level is actually rising approximately 2 mm per year. In the next 83 years (the theoretical end of the the century) that amounts to a .... total of 166 millimeters.

Or just over 6-1/2 inches. Wow. they have 5000 homes in Seattle whose front step is now wet at high tide?


6 posted on 10/20/2017 12:19:07 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: txnativegop

The whole Puget Sound area is actually rebounding from the last ice age and the area is rising.


18 posted on 10/20/2017 12:24:02 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, Conservative by principle.)
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To: txnativegop

Nearly all of Seattle (saltwater) waterfront is owned or occupied by industrial concerns. The only residential neighborhood that I can think of is Alki - and even if the water level was to rise 6 feet (profoundly unlikely), it would only affect about 500 families.

Most of Seattle residential waterfront is freshwater in the form of Lake Washington, which is separated from the Puget Sound by locks. That magical 6 foot water rise would have no effect.

As usual the left lies.


35 posted on 10/20/2017 12:43:04 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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