Posted on 10/20/2011 9:15:43 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
A sea-level rise of just a few inches will bring flooding to South Florida cities, contaminate sources of drinking water and lead to sharp increases in utility bills over the next 20 or 30 years, according a study released Wednesday by Florida Atlantic University.
The study found that projected sea level increases of 3 to 6 inches by 2030, due to global warming, could overwhelm flood-control systems that in many areas are more than 50 years old. The authors provided a list of steps to be taken in the coming decades, from moving drinking-water wells inland to installing more pump stations, that could help the region cope with the higher water.
"Unprecedented sea level rise and other climate change impacts are likely to result in serious threats to the water supply, increased risks of flooding, hurricane damage, huge infrastructure investments and other consequences both known and unknown at this time," states the study, conducted by researchers at the university's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science and College of Engineering and Computer Science.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Psst, leave them in their stupor (and they don’t like facts anyway), but, if there were global warming (manmade or otherwise), it would result in more evaporation, which would both have a cooling effect and at least partially counteract any sea level rise; just the opposite would occur if there were global cooling.
Apparently the Creator knew what He was doing by making 75% of the earth’s surface water to offset global temperature changes that are caused by sunspots, volcanoes, and other natural phenomena that actually do result in temperature changes.
And, I for one, am thankful for global warming - I can’t imagine living in an ice age.
Mike
Oh my Gorp! The world is about to end!
But wait...wait...the Dutch have worked with this for hundreds of years.....( oh never mind.)
Melting floating ice has no effect on sea levels.
The world’s only mass of ice on land, Antarctica, is increasing, not decreasing. Sea levels should be retreating.
South Florida disappeared under 100 feet of water back in 1980.
It’s gone.
Could we arrange to have Congress in a joint session with Barky addressing them when it hits?
Pretty please??
Regards,
GtG
Guess I’ll have to file an insurance claim and move to my house in TENN !
"The vast majority of climate scientists agree that the release of greenhouse gases by human civilization is driving global temperatures higher, with projections of sea-level rise ranging from one to six feet over the next century."
has little merit in my eyes. As far as I am concerned, the ice melt runoff caused by the sun-induced global temperature increase adds to the sea volume and raises its level in relation to the land, but the reduced burden of the ice allows the land mass to rise in relation to the sea in places where ice was/is an issue (probably not Florida). Taking my cue from the article, won't the temperature increase cause evaporaation of the sea, thus reducing its level? Also, I am willing to bet Obozo's total wealth that the 6 feet rise is a TOTALLY discredited figure - just like AGW itself.
I had no idea Florida was only a couple of inches above sea level.
Yes, and long after the Bering land bridge was submerged, The British Isles were still part of mainland Europe.
And there are North African depressions that could also be flooded; some are going to happen anyway, when the northern part of the Rift Valley spreads & collapses.
550 square miles of death valley are below sea level, assume that it is an average of 200 feet below sea level (but it is not likely that much). The oceans are 139 million square miles so the ratio of area is over 250,000 to 1. That means the oceans would drop by <200 feet / 250,000 or less than 1/100 of an inch.
Not by much. The added warming from CO2 will only be about 1C and the added evaporation from that extra warmth is limited by the weather so mostly would result in rain falling right back on the ocean. However, part of the 2010 sea level drop is from added rainfall on land that has not gone back into the ocean (stuck in lakes or in ground water).
6 feet rise is a TOTALLY discredited figure
No, never officially discredited, but always was speculative and always will be. Those 1-2 meter projections come from climate models that Greenland will heat up by 5-10 degrees C and start to "rapidly" melt (rapid being relative, it would still take 100's of years to really get going). A much more reasonable estimate is that sea levels will rise at the current rate, about an inch per decade, as the Arctic slowly warms. Meanwhile the Antarctic may end up gaining more ice to partly counteract the Arctic.
The flooding of desert depressions would subtract very little from sea level.
They should be more worried about subsidence than any rise in the ocean caused by global warming.
‘subsidence’ bwahahahaha, I made that exact same faux pas spelling this evening at FR! Are you following me around?
I get such a kick out of it when you do that thing with comparative numbers. LOL
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