Posted on 06/25/2012 6:13:48 AM PDT by McBuff
From Cape Hatteras, N.C., to just north of Boston, sea levels are rising much faster than they are around the globe, putting one of the world's most costly coasts in danger of flooding, government researchers report.
U.S. Geological Survey scientists call the 600-mile swath a "hot spot" for climbing sea levels caused by global warming. Along the region, the Atlantic Ocean is rising at an annual rate three times to four times faster than the global average since 1990, according to the study published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
It's not just a faster rate, but at a faster pace, like a car on a highway "jamming on the accelerator," said the study's lead author, Asbury Sallenger Jr., an oceanographer at the agency. He looked at sea levels starting in 1950, and noticed a change beginning in 1990.
Since then, sea levels have gone up globally about 2 inches. But in Norfolk, Va., where officials are scrambling to fight more frequent flooding, sea level has jumped a total of 4.8 inches, the research showed. For Philadelphia, levels went up 3.7 inches, and in New York City, it was 2.8 inches.
Climate change pushes up sea levels by melting ice sheets in Greenland and west Antarctica, and because warmer water expands.
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I’ve worked here on the USCG Academy since June 1988. The exact same knot on a pier pilon that only gets half covered at full moon high tide, still doesn’t get covered. The knot in the wood is 2 inches in diameter. My favorite fishing spot for stripers (and other fish) during lunch hour.
Yes but the story does not mention Conneticut so you guys are exempt from this problem..../sarc. Only Mass, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Norfolk seem to be having the problem
When I was on active duty during the 80’s in the Navy the the charts showed absolutley no change in the high tide levels in the fours years I was stationed at Chas. SC Naval Station.
Ding Ding Ding, we have a winner!!
Back in college way back in the 1970's I took a geology course that documented land subsidence from groundwater withdrawal. Not only in Arizona, but in the south San Francisco bay area, Houston area and in sea coast regions of North Carolina. This was way before anyone thought of global warming due to man. There may be other reasons (e.g. plate tectonics), but the global warming hoax is not one of them.
Absolute claptrap.
Environmental despotism.
cheerens speshulee...they are closer to de groun.
twice two inches is four inches. in 22 years.
I am terrified.
because warmer water expands
http://www.chacha.com/question/how-much-does-water-expand-per-every-degree-it-is-heated
How much does water expand per every degree it is heated?
water is heated it expands rapidly adding about 9 % by volume. Water has its maximum density at 3.98 degrees C. ChaCha again!
Global Creeking is a real issue. You think we should address it!?
Guess we’ll have to give the shysters more money... that is what this is about, right?
Here we thought CA was going to slide into the sea!
Turns out it’s the NE part of the country that going to disappear under the ocean.
Dang, I hope we can hold out until the source of our social, political, and financial problems make that final, last gasp before going under.
Okay, Okay I saw this on Gilligan’s Island once. The land is not sinking and the water level is not rising. Gilligan is just putting the stick out farther in the water to get the bigger lobsters.
How the hell does it rise 2 inches in one place and 200 miles north rise 3.x inches?
Have these people never had even basic physics?
You forgot to mention us minorities and poor folks.
I was wondering how one side of a bowl of water could be higher - isn't the Atlantic a large bowl that borders on europe and america? how does one side rise more htan the other? It doesn't.
Uh, oh!
“Any study showing sea level rising faster in some areas than others proves it is not the sea level rising, but land sinking.”
Anyone with a teaspoon of common sense can figure that out. Unfortunately, there are far too many absolutely STUPID people out there these days. The ones publishing this story are foremost among them.
I have see what you posted somewhere else and I find it plausible. Do you recall where did you found it, as I’d like to read the source? I also recall a program that talked about the lands of the mid-west USA and Canada rising as the weight of the snow and ice melted from the last ice age. Thanks.
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