Posted on 12/07/2006 4:18:56 PM PST by decimon
How far has it risen already?
one or two millimeters, if memory serves...
How much (actual measurement) has the ocean risen there? I didn't see that little 'fact' anywhere in the article. Must be a minor oversight...
These people need to look on the bright side-by a home in Summerville and you'll have beach front property in thirty years.
On the other hand, imagine if the ice came back ~ South Carolina'd be 150 miles inland from the new shoreline, and all those hotels and golf courses would be ruined.
That happens where I live too. The sea comes rolling in a couple hundred feet about twice a day, then I guess the ice caps refreeze, because it rolls back out. Its a little more than every 6 hours..Weird.
oh my god it must global tideing it happens hear too
the ocean is moving the ocean is moving the ocean is moving
"A ton" is such a precise, scientific term.
Oh, I forgot. This isn't science. It's research grant fundraising.
http://www.charleston.net/assets/webPages/departmental/news/Stories.aspx?section=localnews&tableId=121751&pubDate=12/7/2006
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's most recent estimate says the sea level in Charleston will likely rise 19 inches this century, and scientists have been predicting a decades-long cycle of more active hurricane seasons. Some scientists also believe warming seas will make hurricanes more powerful.
It's called erosion.....nothing to see here folks now move along.
Data seem to indicate ~ 2-3 mm / yr rise on the East & West Coasts. Maybe the Kennedy Compound will be washed away. ;-)
Barges off shore aways pipe sand onto the beaches so all those hotels and houses don't fall into the ocean.
Ruined my metal detecting,but I just played more golf;)
The cause is open to conjecture.
Three years ago someone became sick by a fish that someone says was caught off the SC coast. Who says so? Where is the proof? Someone at work was off today for eating sushi at a Phoenix restaurant. Proof of global warming? Don't think so.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
YUK!
Lot of usage of the word "could" in this piece of crap report.
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