Posted on 03/15/2012 11:20:59 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (CBS) — A new report shows sea levels are rapidly rising and the study predicts the Jersey Shore could be underwater in a matter of decades.
The organization “Climate Central” in Princeton, New Jersey released the ocean study Wednesday.
The group found global warming is expanding sea water and causing ice sheets to melt.
Scientists believe by the end of the century, water levels will be three to four feet higher, with bigger storm surges that could wipe out low lying areas.
(Excerpt) Read more at philadelphia.cbslocal.com ...
The good news is that Snooki has a couple of built-in flotation devices.
The Jersey shore is going to be wiped out anyway by the next monster hurricane that travels up the the East coast. They’re riding out an incredible string of luck. Wasn’t Agnes in 1972 the last hurricane to heavily damage New Jersey?
Time to consult with the Dutch.
If this happened, you all KNOW that fat RINO Christie would just float away without a care in the world, and probably wind up in Jamaica.
PING
Study: Sea Levels Rising; Storms Could Wipe Out Jersey Shore,
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Axel Rose: “wake up! Time to dieeeeeeeeee..”
‘The group found global warming is expanding sea water and causing ice sheets to melt.”
Numbers, please...such as, how much has sea level risen in the past 50 years?
Scientists believe by the end of the century, water levels will be three to four feet higher, with bigger storm surges that could wipe out low lying areas.
Believe? Nope, these clowns are most certainly NOT scientists. However, they more than qualify for membership in the West Wing Clown Show of Felon/Cretins.
Ping.
“I have a new bikini and a vat of Tropicana!!”
You can not make such a crazy claim without offering pictorial proof!
Reminds me of a Southpark episode.
...and I bet when they talk you can barely see Gore's lips move.
I just knew it when I read the Title, Freepers are so awesome and we all think alike. Love ya guys. And Hope the Pauly D goes first.
Pardon me while I go set fire to a pile of old tires in the backyard.
Hey maybe they finally cancel Jersey Shore LOL!
Okay, its not a vat. Just a bucket.
You should have bought a couple of jugs, instead of a bucket. Then you could have posted a great pic to inquisitive FReepers....
Ping...?
Question for Climate Central.
If the climate is so out of control that we have to give someone our tax money for reasons yet explained to the American people, why are we being asked to give up a proven energy source in oil for a self admitted unknown quantity in solar, wind and water power?
Morner remarks that "prior to 5000-6000 BP, all sea level curves are dominated by a general rise in sea level in true glacial eustatic response to the melting of continental ice caps," but that "sea level records are now dominated by the irregular redistribution of water masses over the globe ... primarily driven by variations in ocean current intensity and in the atmospheric circulation system and maybe even in some deformation of the gravitational potential surface."
With respect to the last 150 years, Morner notes that "the mean eustatic rise in sea level for the period 1850-1930 was [o]n the order of 1.0-1.1 mm/year," but that "after 1930-40, this rise seems to have stopped (Pirazzoli et al., 1989; Morner, 1973, 2000)." This stasis, in his words, "lasted, at least, up to the mid-60s." Thereafter, with the advent of the TOPEX/POSEIDON mission, Morner notes that "the record can be divided into three parts: (1) 1993-1996 with a clear trend of stability, (2) 1997-1998 with a high-amplitude rise and fall recording the ENSO event of these years and (3) 1998-2000 with an irregular record of no clear tendency." Most important of all, in his words, "there is a total absence of any recent 'acceleration in sea level rise' as often claimed by IPCC and related groups."
What it means
Writing on behalf of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, Morner says that "when we consider past records, recorded variability, causational processes involved and the last centuries' data, our best estimate of possible future sea level changes is +10 ± 10 cm in a century or, maybe, even +5 ± 15 cm." Hence, in his words, "we have to discard the model output of IPCC (2001) as untenable, not to say impossible (Morner, 1995; INQUA, 2000), and we cite the Gilgamesh Epos from about 5000 BP saying: Lay upon the sinner his sin. Lay upon the transgressioner his transgression." Or to put it more bluntly, as Morner does in the final sentence of his abstract, "there is no fear of any massive future flooding as claimed in most global warming scenarios."
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