As Alaska Glaciers Melt, It’s Land That’s Rising (fault of global warming)

New York Times ^ | May 17, 2009 | Cornelia Dean

[denydenydeny]

I can hear it now.....

“This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

[cookcounty]

Why is the land rising in Finland, on the Bothnian coast???? No glaciers anywhere near. Rising and falling land forms are normal, but the Glowarmers want to attribute everything to global warming.

[cookcounty]

Greenland and a few other places have experienced similar effects from widespread glacial melting that began more than 200 years ago, geologists say

Just LOOK at what that Napoleon started!!!

[Waco]

Awwwww shite, oh dear.

[ApplegateRanch]

Circa 50 years ago, in grade school geography, we were taught that the western North American coastline was an ‘emerging or rising coast’, being tectonically lifted.

Yes, cliffs collapsed and fell to the beach in places, but overall, the coastline was rising.

Conversely, we were also taught that the East Coast was slowly subsiding/submerging.

[freekitty]

Gore is trying to make as much money as he can before this turkey scam sees it’s last days.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Ditto]

The same has been slowly happening in the Great Lakes region over the last 10,000 years since the end of the last Ice Age.

[JustDoItAlways]

Sea level at Juneau Alaska has fallen by 203 feet in the last 11,000 years. It is post-glacial rebound from the last ice age.

[driftless2]

"utterly laughable"

No it's not. It's called isostatic rebound, and it's something I learned in college. Look at a relief map of North America. You will see that most of the natural lakes on the continent occur in the northern regions. There are relatively few natural lakes south of the Great Lakes. There used to be huge lakes created by melting glaciers including Lake Agassiz which was situated somewhat to the west of Lake Superior. It is now almost entirely gone. Canada had gigantic volumes of water. As the land rises, much of this water will run off.

[grey_whiskers]

So, with Global Warming, it's not that the Sky is Falling^TM.

It's that the Ground is Rising!

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

And the reason California doesn't fall into the ocean is that New Jersey sucks.

Cheers!