Posted on 01/12/2024 7:32:22 PM PST by Libloather
New York City is reaching an all-time low - literally.
New research reveals dramatic concern that the Big Apple, Long Island and many more Atlantic coastal regions face an inevitable risk of sinking under the weight of their buildings at an alarming rate.
“It affects you and I and everyone. It may be gradual, but the impacts are real,” Virginia Tech professor and researcher Manoochehr Shirzaei said.
Other metropolitan areas like Baltimore, Maryland, along with Norfolk and Virginia Beach in Virginia, were also flagged as worrisome coastal areas prone to dangerous flooding as a result of the sinking land.
The new study, published in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, highlights that the rate of sinking - scientifically called subsidence - is occurring at a staggering 2 millimeters per year in many areas.
That level, which is potentially impacting 2 million people and 800,000 properties along the East Coast, “should cause concern,” lead author Leonard Ohenhen added.
“For example, significant areas of critical infrastructure in New York, including JFK and LaGuardia airports and [their] runways, along with the railway systems, are affected by subsidence rates exceeding 2 millimeters per year.”
September research by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration noted that the areas around LGA and the U.S. Open’s Arthur Ashe Stadium had fallen at 3.7 and 4.6 millimeters per year between 2016 to 2023.
A September viral video also captured a wild flood scene at LaGuardia as passengers endured ankle-deep water within the airport.
The Virginia Tech study warns that more than 1,400 miles of East Coast terrain is sinking at a rate of more than 5 millimeters annually.
That’s four more than the rate of global sea rise.
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Manoochehr Shirzaei
Came over on the Mayflower.
So, sinking or ocean rising? I’m losing my place. 😂
Build a wall and keep them from higher land.
Only way to get rid of the scourge of east coast liberal infestation.
AGW causes intensification of gravity effects on buildings?
Call me when Bambie’s coastal homes go on the market....
Is Washington DC gone yet or did the groundhog see his shadow?
Ha ha. New Yawk is built on bedrock. I doubt there is any subsidence.
Both! ("Double Whammy"!!). Move Chris Christy out to the Himalayas or something..."lighten the load" on the East Coast.
You and the residents of Ward 3 (and even Ward 8) need not fret.
Now more than ever, we must drain the swamp! Climatologists agree!
So in five years the city will sink about the length of a red ant. That’s devastating if you’re an ant.
Quit trying to cheer me up!
Just more flat-earth scientismic orgasmic ventilating.
Anyone can check and see that Ellis Island and Liberty Island are still at 7 feet above Mean Sea Level (MSL) just as they were in Colonial times when they were known as Oyster Islands.
Despite having been broken apart and moved around, the portion of Plymouth Rock that has been returned to its original location is still at 10 feet above MSL, just as it was in !620.
“Sea Level Rise” along the coasts of the United States is in reality Costal Subsidence from building on sand, swamps, and reclaimed land.
Congressman Hank Johnson said that Guam would tip over if it were developed to a large extent.
Roughly an inch every twelve or thirteen years.
Woo-hoo! Soon my little 1/4-acre plot with a ranch house northeast of Indianapolis will be a multi-million-dollar beachfront compound!
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