East Coast seas on the rise

InsideNova ^ | 6/25/2012 | Seth Borenstein

[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.

[McBuff]

OMG! Help us! Obama promised to LOWER the seas. . .WHAT'S GOING ON!.. . excuse me. . gotta go. .got a hotline in to Ashley Judd!

[stefanbatory]

is the sea level rising or is the land level dropping?

[thackney]

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.

Any study showing sea level rising faster in some areas than others proves it is not the sea level rising, but land sinking.

[theDentist]

I smell another tax being devised.

[mongo141]

“is the sea level rising or is the land level dropping?”

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More fear mongering to keep the grant money flowing in..

[norwaypinesavage]

I've got good news for Boston: Water runs down hill. A hill of water at Boston will not last for long!

[satan69]

Using this logic if I pour water in the bathtub only one end of the tub will increase... Hard to believe
anyone would fall for crap!

[IMTOFT]

It’s all George Bush’s fault...

[mosaicwolf]

Ummm....I have noticed that the east side of my swimming pool is about an 1/8 inch higher than the west side. I wonder what on earth could be going on?!? At this rate, water will be spilling out of my pool in 10 years!

[xzins]

The water level in the creek behind my house is down.

I’m predicting it’ll be up next March and down again next July.

[bmwcyle]

Get Obama to the beach. Call his bluff.

[cripplecreek]

LOL just catching up with California which was rising fastest the other day.

[mware]

Hey, I live about 25 miles from the shores of South Jersey.

I also have 7 acres of woods. Things work out right I just might have ocean front property if I wait long enough.

[animal172]

I’m all for the rising water if it will wash the stench away from the likes of New York City, New Jersey, Taxachesetts, and most other northeastern states.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Ken522]

... wimmin’ and chid’ren hardest hit!

[ETL]

"The environment is suffering damage that could be irreversible — global warming, the greenhouse effect, the melting of the polar ice caps, the rising sea level, hurricanes — with terrible social occurrences that will shake life on this planet."

"I believe this idea has a strong connection with reality. I don't think we have much time. Fidel Castro said in one of his speeches I read not so long ago, 'tomorrow could be too late, let's do now what we need to do'."

"I believe it is time that we take up with courage and clarity a political, social, collective and ideological offensive across the world — a real offensive that permits us to move progressively, over the next years, the next decades, leaving behind the perverse, destructive, destroyer, capitalist model and go forward in constructing the socialist model to avoid barbarism and beyond that the annihilation of life on this planet."

--Hugo Chavez, at the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Caracas on August 8-15, 2005

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/640/640p16.htm

[mo]

Imagine!!!Happening to the resort playgrounds of the US policy makers and elite!!What a coinkydink!!!

[mware]

Ummm....I have noticed that the east side of my swimming pool is about an 1/8 inch higher than the west side.

Hey maybe that Congressman was right!!!!Did your family all stand on the west side of the pool?

[Da Coyote]

Bull Obama!

The name of that pub says it all.