@tom_g Ha! Maybe the GOP is right, God is a Republican. :-)
@syz This..
@marinelife And when they have to do it like this.
@Jaxk Ha! I like that plan.
@cazzie No joking. It’s a VOA news release, not a peer reviewed scientific paper. It cites its sources, which you are welcome to dispute. But it very clearly says exactly what I alleged. That is, in fact, the headline of the piece. And if you read down a ways, you come to a direct point from the USGS study it was drawn from, As the climate warms, more extreme storm surges and high waves are expected, raising the risk of flooding, coastal erosion and wetland loss. Up and down the California coast, highways, sports stadiums and housing developments are only a meter or so above the highest tides.
San Francisco International Airport would flood with 40 centimeters of sea level rise, a likely scenario within a few decades, according to the report.
Oregon and Washington state are particularly vulnerable due to likely subduction under the Pacific plate lowering their elevation above sea level.
As to the East Coast, you find this.
_Sea level rise also threatens the U.S. east coast. A United States Geological Survey (USGS) study looked at a 1,000-kilometer stretch of America’s Atlantic seaboard, from Massachusetts down to North Carolina. _
The area had already been labeled a “hotspot” for sea level rise but the outlook could be even worse than the experts thought.
“Over a 60-year period, the rates within that hotspot area have increased between two and 3.7 millimeters per year,” says USGS oceanographer and lead author, Asbury Sallenger. “An increase like that is three to four times greater than you find in the average increase in rate of sea level rise over the same period.”
Is saying none of that is there your little joke, @cazzie?
@Tropical_Willie I asked about that very move Here.
@ragingloli It may impact our choice of words, but nature is driven by cause and effect, and responds to what we, the body politic, do.
@Sunny2 What’s wrong with the ostrich hiding it’s head under water?
@gondwanalon Global warming is a perfectly accurate way of describing it. However, your house is actually not the entire globe. Sticking your head out the window is not an accurate way of recording global temperature change.
You’re quite right that global warming drives climate change, and that locally, those changes may bring extremes of all types of weather, including cold and snow. You can visualize it like a pot of water sitting atop a stove with a bunch of beads immersed in it. If the beads have the same density and compressiblity as the water, after the water came to equilibrium with no currents circulating, the beads would be randomly dispersed throughout the water in the pot. Now turn on the burner under the pot. The beads will begin to form circulations and move. This is exactly what happens when we put energy in the form of heat into Earth’s atmosphere. If a circulation sweeps down from the Arctic or Antarctic, it brings a big chill. It even brings more snow die to arctic ice melt off exposing more open sea to evaporation. Surely you are aware that the Western states being ravaged by wild fires this year are not the recipients of this localized effect. Enjoy it while it lasts. You get your turn in the barrel too.
@josie I don’t think you should be co sanguine about the change the encroaching sea will bring to the legislative landscape of California. It is those who claim to be “conservatives” who refuse to budge on any position.
@Linda_Owl Maybe the Joker was right.
@mazingerz88 So let’s see what frog stew tastes like. :-)
@Rarebear Good link. Thanks.
@Patton Great point.
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