Posted on 08/26/2017 5:17:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
How do we know its not just the earth’s surface shell doing what it always does - adjusts to varying pressure from Sun, Moon, volcanic pressures, etc. Maybe the base land is sinking under a tectonic plate somewhere out of sight. For the sea levels to rise, everywhere, implies more water in the ocean everywhere. What we seem to have here is a local, relative to the earth’s surface, bulge in a continental land mass.
No
...but...but...what about the dry-docks? ==8-O
continental drift, tectonic subsistence
“Erosion or subsidence versus water level rise. Semantics?”
That’s what I’m thinking. The doofuses are looking out to sea for the problem when it’s equally likely that it’s the water table and drainage in the surrounding land that are causing the problems.
Yes. Fresh water in the 'Glades has to maintain 3 ft. of 'head' to prevent salt water intrusion.
The fresh water being pumped out of the ground for the population is causing the intrusion.
At least that's what I've read.
I have beachfront property in Central Florida—at least it was 200,000 years ago. ;)
The system of drainage canals around Homestead worked both ways. Salt water can come in and fresh water was going out. Florida Bay was dead. The ‘Glades once mitigated the effect.
Draining the Florida swamp to make all of that sub-tropical real estate in the 30’s came at a cost. Homestead was cris’crossed with canals dug by what amounted to giant ditch witches grinding through coral. Great place to be a walking catfish.
I’ve lived near the Chesapeake bay for several decades, and have not notice any increase in the mean water level. There are reports that the land in this area is slowly subsiding.
Seems like it would be a two-fer...
So,... women are safe now, to ride across Bridges in a car driven by a Kennedy.
My backyard ends at a saltwater stream - no change in the last 40 years.
Unless liberal elites can show us a glass of water where water on one side of the glass is higher than the other side, I'm calling BS on this story too.
Who knew that NAS China Lake would soon be on the coast?
It goes beyond semantics when some regional subsidence is used to justify international global warming policies.
I’m pretty amazed at the serious replies to my query
There was a story in the newspaper not long ago in which the Mayor of Tangier Island said claimed he could prove the island is disappearing not from sea rise, but rather by the constant washing away of the land by the bay currents over the many years.
Which leads to the question: why not sea walls and jetties.
Having lived on the shores of the Chesapeake bay since 1989, I can testify that, based on maintaining 2 docks on my property, there as been no appreciable change in the level of the average water level...Except during the tides...And hurricane Elizabeth which left 5-feet of water and mud in the first floor of my house.
But since then America has been obsessed with buying cheap crap from China spawning the need for more and bigger container vessels. And the Cruise industry has more than quadrupled in the same time adding even more ships to the worlds oceans. Both China and North Korea have increased their numbers of submarines, superstitiously adding to the perceived sea level rise (an ice cube held under water still displaces the water!).
“Who knew that NAS China Lake would soon be on the coast?”
When the Big One hits the San Andreas...
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