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US could see a century’s worth of sea rise in just 30 years
The Associated Press ^
| February 15, 2022
| By SETH BORENSTEIN (D-AP)
Posted on 02/15/2022 10:23:46 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The seas lapping against America’s coastlines are rising ever faster and will be 10 to 12 inches higher by the year 2050, with major Eastern cities hit regularly with costly floods even on sunny days, a government report says.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and six other federal agencies issued a 111-page report Tuesday that warns of “significant consequences” from rising seas in the next few decades, with parts of Louisiana and Texas projected to see waters a foot and a half (0.45 meters) higher.
However, the worst of the long-term sea level rise from the melting of ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland probably won’t kick in until after 2100, the study’s lead author said.
Because of climate change, the nation’s coastlines on average will see as much sea level rise in the next 30 years as they did in the previous century , said lead author William Sweet, an oceanographer for NOAA’s National Ocean Service.
While higher seas cause much more damage when storms such as hurricanes hit the coast, they are becoming a problem even on sunny days.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Could”
“Perhaps”
“Study Suggests”
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posted on
02/15/2022 10:24:39 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
02/15/2022 10:24:44 AM PST
by
robel
To: Oldeconomybuyer
When Obama, Streisand, Gore and DeCaprio have a fire sale in their beachfront properties I might think they mean it.
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posted on
02/15/2022 10:25:21 AM PST
by
Persevero
(You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Uh huh, got it, doomed.
What’s for lunch?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Or not
Just spit-ballin’ here....
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posted on
02/15/2022 10:25:29 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Who cares? Aren’t we all going to be dead in like, 10 years? Or does that 12 year claim never change?
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posted on
02/15/2022 10:25:52 AM PST
by
brownsfan
(It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
Good, accurately tell me the weather a week from now.
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posted on
02/15/2022 10:25:56 AM PST
by
proust
(All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The seas lapping against America’s coastlines are rising ever faster and will be 10 to 12 inches higher by the year 2050BS. I did the math on this in another thread a month or two ago. Melt all the ice in all the glaciers in the entire world and you might get 1/2" sea level rise.
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posted on
02/15/2022 10:26:15 AM PST
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I thought that Obama had solved that just by existing.
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posted on
02/15/2022 10:26:19 AM PST
by
cdcdawg
(Everyone who disagrees with me is a Qtard blogger!!!!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
There must be trillions in the globull hoax for the overlords. Unfortunately for them the western countries are starting to run out of money.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
02/15/2022 10:26:44 AM PST
by
Vision
(Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Anyone buying this likely also wears a mask when driving alone.
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posted on
02/15/2022 10:26:47 AM PST
by
bk1000
(Banned from Breitbart)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Forget it Jake.....it’s the ay pee.
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posted on
02/15/2022 10:26:49 AM PST
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
To: brownsfan
Who cares? Aren’t we all going to be dead in like, 10 years? Or does that 12 year claim never change? I've forgotten A-O-C's scientific prediction. Something like 9 years at this point.
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posted on
02/15/2022 10:27:01 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: cdcdawg
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posted on
02/15/2022 10:27:20 AM PST
by
Vision
(Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
And HRC could go to jail.
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posted on
02/15/2022 10:27:28 AM PST
by
Track9
(Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
02/15/2022 10:27:30 AM PST
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I’m still waiting for the mini ICE AGE they promised me in grade school... and for all the fish to die from acid rain.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Coulda, woulda, shoulda... BS article from the scumbags at AP.
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posted on
02/15/2022 10:28:03 AM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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