Underwater destiny for many N.J. towns?

Philly.com ^ | Peter Mucha

[Phillyred]

Doesn't take long to get to their agenda. Tough to keep reading after "Al Gore" and "U.N." Funny, no mention of the 15 years of no warming we have experienced. No mention of the 11 year sun spot cylce or the little ice age. No mention of any other possible causes other than the air we exhale. No mention of lower temperatures during times when we emitted the most CO2 in history. I am so tired of agenda-driven journalism. Does anyone have info on this "non-biased non profit", Climate Central?

[cripplecreek]

Much of the eastern seaboard is sinking due to tectonic forces that have nothing to do with weather.

[RightGeek]

[HereInTheHeartland]

There is warming all right. Some of those temperature measuring stations are showing warmer temperatures. Of course it isn’t mentioned a 5 acre asphalt parking lot built next to it.

[bill1952]

Try this one:

[Tax-chick]

Like erosion never happened in the past. Idiots. They claim people are the bane of the planet, and then they run sob stories about how awful it is that geology affects humans who chose to perch on a shoreline.

Which is it? Do we love Gaia as she is, or not?

[Venturer]

If we took all of the Scientists and people who they have fooled into believing their BS we could stack them up against the sea and form a barrier.

[frogjerk]

"It's rare that you'll find someone to say that sea level isn't rising," said Jon Miller, a professor of coastal engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. "That's hard to refute."

He is correct. At the upper west side wine and cheese parties it is rare to find someone that isn't parroting the lie.

[winoneforthegipper]

Actually this may happen but not because of AGW sea rise. The east coast has been sinking from North Carolina up to New York for thousand upon thousands of years.

This sinking process partially aided or caused the strong earthquake two years ago in Mineral Springs.

However it certainly won’t happen this decade....lol

[wita]

Carbon pollution. Don’t you love it. How about some gold pollution.

[LibLieSlayer]

Sea levels have not risen... Arctic Ice Pack at record levels... up 75% over last year... as of now... solar max of 11 year sunspot cycle lowest in recorded History... leading UK scientists now predicting a mini ice age... Maunder Minimum almost certain... and these MF’ers still try to sell bullsh!t to bulls!

[Fresh Wind]

Aw, jeez...

[dead]

The rise this century could be dramatic – as much as 6.6 feet -- depending on how much global warming melts ice in Greenland and Antarctica, according to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. If this century mimics the last one, NOAA says, seas would rise just another eight inches. If the oceans warm and expand, the rise could double that. Add melting from ice sheets and glaciers and a four-foot rise is the expectation by 2100. Four feet would be disastrous. It's enough for high tide to overrun half of the populated areas of 25 New Jersey towns – including half of Margate, Strathmere and Brigantine – and five in Delaware, displacing as many as a quarter-million people, according to “Cities Below Future Seas,” an interactive tool from Climate Central, a Princeton-based research group.

This is a nice example of how they just make shit up. Check their math - first they state that we're looking at a 6.6 feet rise. To get there, they explain it could be eight inches if it's like last century (remember that? me neither, but anyway) they then state that a puffy ocean could double that, so there's a sixteen inch rise. Add melting glaciers and what not, and they say the total could be four feet, which could spell the end of civilization AWKI.

But that 6.6 foot number is still floating out there like unflushed turd. Can we revisit that number? Where did it come from? Where did it go? Oh, it was just a made up number. Like every other made up number in this dopey article.

Such a rise has already become inevitable, says ecologist Ben Strauss, a Climate Central vice president.

That's good news Ben! What's the sense of worrying. To quote the country song, "If you would, Lord, send a boat."

[bert]

We learned conclusively in an old thread that the sea level change is the result of tectonic movement and not climate change.

[rstrahan]

The Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast has been sinking for years. In the 70’s part of Baytown finally succumbed to the Gulf.

At the same time, ocean levels have been rising for 20,000 years, since the last ice age. The Egyptian coast line of Cleopatra’s time is under 30-40’ of water due to rising oceans, and there is no evidence this was due to “man-made global warming”.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

October 18, 2013

2013 ranks as one of the least extreme U.S. weather years ever – Many bad weather events at ‘historically low levels’

'Whether you’re talking about tornadoes, wildfires, extreme heat or hurricanes, the good news is that weather-related disasters in the US are all way down this year compared to recent years and, in some cases, down to historically low levels.'

• Tornadoes: 'lowest total in several decades'
• Number of wildfires: 'On pace to be the lowest it has been in the past ten years'
• Extreme Heat: The number of 100 degree days may 'turn out to be the lowest in about 100 years of records'
• Hurricanes: 'We are currently in the longest period (8 years) since the Civil War Era without a major hurricane strike in the US (i.e., category 3, 4 or 5)' ( last major hurricane to strike the US was Hurricane Wilma in 2005)

[blueunicorn6]

“There’s only one way left to save New Jersey, Frank.”

“What is it, Doctor?”

“Depends absorbent underwear. We issue them to everyone in New Jersey. Then, we have them charge into the ocean. This will soak up at least half of the Atlantic Ocean.”

“But, what do we do with all that wet underwear?”

“We send them to Mexico and tell them they’re pinatas.”

[Yo-Yo]

Current sea level rise is 6 inches per century.

[Alas Babylon!]

I could just as easily write a story about the coming glaciation and how the new growing ice sheets in Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia are going to lower ocean levels so badly that Atlantic City will be hundreds of miles from the coast and suffer gravely due to the ocean-front economy disappearing.

Then, there will be the rise of Beringia land bridge to Asia which will flood Alaska with Russian illegal aliens and OH! what will we do???!

What about the massive Canadian wheat crop failures due to farmers not able to plant in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba because the fields are under 1 mile of ice?

Oh the horrors!

Proof? Well, we’ve had ice ages in the past... Who says they’re over? They don’t even know why they begin, nor why they end!

It’s all speculation.

[fella]

In Great Britain entire voting districts have fallen into the sea but that was before global warming.