Wall St. underwater: rising seas to hit NY hard

AFP on Yahoo ^ | 3/15/09 | Marlowe Hood

[NormsRevenge]

PARIS (AFP) – A predicted slowdown in Atlantic Ocean currents will cause sea levels along the US northeast coast to rise twice as fast as the global average, exposing New York and other big cities to violent and frequent storm surges, according to a new study.

Manhattan's Wall Street, barely a metre (three feet) above sea level, for example, will find itself underwater more often as the 21st century unfolds, said the study, published online Sunday in Nature Geoscience.

Sea levels vary across regions by up to 24 centimetres (9.5 inches), influenced in part by powerful currents that coarse around the globe in a pattern called the thermohaline circulation.

In the Atlantic, warm water moving north along the surface from the Gulf of Mexico helps temper cold winters in western Europe and along the US east coast, while frigid Arctic waters run south along the bottom of the sea.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in early 2007 that expanding ocean water driven by climate change will drive up sea levels, on average, anywhere from 18 to 59 centimetres (seven to 23 inches) by 2100, depending on how successful we are at slashing greenhouse gas emissions.

This rising water mark will erase several island nations from the map, and is likely to cause devastation in Asian and African deltas home to tens of millions of people.

More recent studies, taking the impact of melting ice sheets in Greenland and the Western Antarctic into account, forecast an even higher increase of at least one metre (39 inches) over the same period.

Jianjun Yin of Florida State University and two colleagues wanted to find out what impact these sea level rises would have at a regional level, especially along the American eastern seaboard.

[brewcrew]

Chuckles - what a dolt.

He is THE argument against inbreeding.

[dforest]

Well whatever? Wall Street has aleady ben hit with a tidal wave.

Gawd, does this BS never cease?

[twoputt]

Aaaargh! I was thinking the same thing...gondola franchises. Tell you what. You get the New York franchise and I’ll take the Boston one. I’m sure Boston will get hit just as bad.

[Leo Carpathian]

“Scientwists” are ignoring laws of physics, must be the consensus thing. Like water distribution around sphere with gravity.
God is throwing some cold water at their extortion scam by making this sunspot minimum really low and prolonged, with upcoming maximum being most likely low. Ans they can't do sheeeet about it, just watch their globullsheeeet fall apart.

[Ditter]

The stories that Larson told in his book are exactly like the stories my grandfather told about surviving the storm. I read that Larson went to the Galveston library and read the true life accounts that survivors had recorded there. I think he did an excellent job.

[Ditter]

I am not tough, I’ll admit that. When my air conditioning goes out I fade.

[glorgau]

by powerful currents that coarse around the globe

Perhaps they meant to use the word "course". But editors can't be expected to catch that sort of thing in the first paragraph. I wonder how much they checked the rest of the article.

[LibLieSlayer]

NY under water? Now nagin can run against bloomberg!!!!!

[FreepShop1]

It is hilarious when the AGW nutbags proclaim that Greenland’s melting will cover New York and London with water. Why didn’t this happen when Greenland had half the amount of ice it currently does—between 800-1200 A.D., before the “Little Ice Age”? There were tens of thousands of Norse farmers living there in 1400. Now those areas are covered with ice.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 3/15/2009 . Thanks NormsRevenge.

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