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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."

[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”.