Posted on 11/06/2019 12:41:33 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A new study warns that even if countries curb their carbon emissions pledge as part of the historic 2015 Paris climate agreement, sea levels will continue to rise.
The research notes that sea levels would rise approximately 20 centimeters by the year 2300 from emissions released between 2016 and 2030, when the Paris Agreement expires.
“Even if we were to meet these initial goals of the Paris agreement, the sea level commitment from global warming will be significant,” said one of the study's co-authors, Oregon State University climate scientist Peter Clark, in a statement. “When we pump more carbon into the atmosphere, the increase in temperature is almost immediate.
The study follows news that the Trump administration has begun the process of pulling out of the landmark 2015 Paris climate agreement.
The study is the first of its kind to "quantify how much sea level would rise from the carbon emissions pledged under the Paris agreement," the statement added. Led by the U.N., the goal of the Paris agreement is to limit the global temperature increase to less than 2 degrees Celsius.
A separate study published in August suggested that sea ice in the Arctic could completely disappear through September each summer if average global temperatures increase by as little as 2 degrees Celsius and climate conditions continue to worsen.
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WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!! In 11 years.
Answer: because this isn't about sea-level rise, or coastal cities. It about implementing COMMUNISM by other means.
less than 8 inches....and that’s if it happens.
O M G !!!!!!
Why were sea levels rising for centuries before the industrial revolution? Might there be other causes? (Not considered an acceptable question to ask, I guess.)
According to “calculations” (lacking evidence), in the last 100 years, sea level has risen between 4” and 8”.
So, Mr. Peter, where is this temperature increase from the huge amounts of carbon that have been released the past 50 years?
By 2300? I’m sure that was some real accurate science for sure.
Been living by the Atlantic for 62 years now and I don’t see a raise ,LOL
Learn to swim.
BINGO!!!
Invest in a manufacturer of water wings, you’ll do fine!
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When it lowers beachfront property prices, then I might give this some consideration. Until then, they can STFU
http://www.history-for-kids.com/king-canute.html
King Canute
A poem by Paul Perro
There once was an old king called King Canute,
He was a kind old man, and wise to boot.
He was troubled though, he thought it was odd,
That his subjects treated him like a god.
One day a man said “You are a great king
Ruler of everyone and everything.”
King Canute looked at his subject and laughed.
He said “Not everything, don’t be daft.
I couldn’t command the wind not to blow,
I couldn’t command a tree not to grow.
I’m not in charge of the birds or the bees,
The sun or the moon, the skies or the seas.
Canute was now starting to get quite vexed
The subject just stood there looking perplexed.
The king called the servants together, then
He bellowed out an order to his men:
“Pick up my throne and take it to the beach,
There is a lesson that I want to teach.”
So they carried his throne down to the ocean
Followed by crowds, there was quite a commotion.
Canute sat on the throne facing the sea
And spoke to it with great authority.
“I am your king and I give this command -
Stay where you are, do not come on this sand”
But the sea didn’t listen to the king.
No-one can stop the tide from coming in.
As the waves kept advancing up the shore
The wise old king tried to halt them once more.
“I am the King, you must do as I say,
I command you to go back, right away.”
But the waves still came, right up to his feet.
Canute just shrugged and admitted defeat.
He faced the crowd, and he sternly outcried,
“Not even a king can control the tide.
I did my best, but no, I came up short.
I’m just not as powerful as you thought.”
If today’s kids lack the wisdom of the old poems that we learned as kids, perhaps they could look at real data - data not subject to NASA/GISS “adjustments”. Real estate prices tell us what people believe when they vote with their money. If the wealthy elitists believed in this nonsense, they would not buy beachfront property on soon-to-be underwater property by the ocean, but in fact those prices are rising faster than the prices for other real estate. People who put their money on this are not worried that the seas will rise . . .
. . . despite the hysterical predictions of fearmongers: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/will-you-be-underwater-theres-a-map-for-that
Obama’s Martha Vineyard estate is in mortal danger—omg!
That's my standard response to any snowflake who starts to whine to me about climate change and the ocean levels rising to flood out everybody ...
When Obama, Barbra Streisand, and all of the other progressive hypocrits start selling their ocean-front beach houses and mansions for whatever prices they can get, I might start to believe that they're being honest about their beliefs and worries about ocean levels rising.
Sea levels have been rising for the last 1,000 years, and are rising no faster now than hundreds of years ago.
Equally historic, very natural and forever ongoing is subsidence along the coastal shelf. That too is a natural process born by the geography of the coastal shelf and the oceans actions on it and against the coastline itself.
Few native American settlements sat right on the coasts. Over many thousands of years they learned to give nature its coasts, and set their settlements inland from coastal erosion and to gain protection from storms that came along the coasts. Modern humans ignore that and then want taxpayers to pay for their folly.
“...A separate study published in August suggested that sea ice in the Arctic could completely disappear through September each summer if average global temperatures increase by as little as 2 degrees Celsius...”
So that would put the Arctic above freezing every summer????
How many cubic miles of silt do the world’s rivers dump into the ocean every year?
Just curious.
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