Posted on 05/16/2023 9:52:15 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
New York is sinking, and its skyscrapers are bringing it down. That's the finding of a new study that modeled the geology beneath the city compared to satellite data showing its footprint is collapsing into Earth.
Technically called subsidence, this gradual settling or sudden sinking of Earth's surface occurs when soft sediments shift, or loads bearing down on the ground push it deeper still. There are many causes, but the weight of cities themselves is rarely studied.
New York is sinking at a rate of 1-2 millimeters per year, the study found, under the weight of its sky-high buildings. A few millimeters might not sound like much, but some parts of the city are subsiding much faster, on par with the fastest observed rates at which tectonic plates rebound when glaciers melt.
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No, it’s CAGW.
All the NYC peeps need to eat only locally available bugs.
I’ve wondered a few times about how strong that rock they built all that stuff on must be.
Wonder if they will start a campaign for the millions of dwellers to lose weight.
Not because its healthy or because they feel fat is a problem, but to save their city from sinking.
Its the same response style they have towards climate change. Keep the lib idiocy consistent across causes...
So if all the people go onto one side of manhattan and jump, maybe they can flip the pennisula over...
/guess what i am referring to
Hank, is that you?
Got it :)
Millennium Tower in SF is sinking (and tilting).
Huh. A mile of ice on NYC would make it sink. And did. And it’s been coming back for 12,000 years.. Hard to imagine that all those skyscrapers would have as much weight as an ice sheet.
This is the result of contemporary education.
Hank Johnson: Manhattan Island’s gonna’ tip over.
Exactly why we need more fat people.
I thought they already figured that global warming was the cause of the building sinking 😀🤗
New York City is sinking man, and I don’t wanna swim.
“More than 30 million Jakarta residents are now reckoning with the prospect of relocating the city or doubling down on climate action, such as opting for electric buses.”
So they’re saying that if the people of Jakarta simply starting taking electric buses, then the 4” per year that the city is sinking will stop?
Forgive me for not getting the linkage here.
the weight of injustice.
Wait, I thought it was sea level rising from global warming and not subsidence that everyone was hysterical about. What next, raze the cities?
Ew, sounds really omunoius. There 25.4 millimeters in and inch. So at worse case of 2 millimeters a year would be 12 years for it to sink one inch.
The folks that blame Europeans for all of the ills will say this is just karma.
Can’t sink out of sight too quickly for me.
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