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California coast ocean level could rise 10 feet in 70 years
The Mercury News ^ | April 30, 2017 | By JULIE CART

Posted on 04/30/2017 8:40:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A slow-moving emergency is lapping at California’s shores – climate-driven sea-level rise that experts now predict could elevate the water in coastal areas up to 10 feet in just 70 years, gobbling up beach front and overwhelming low-lying cities.

The speed with which polar ice is melting and glacier shelves are cracking off indicates to some scientists that once-unthinkable outer-range projections of sea rise may turn out to be too conservative. A knee-buckling new state-commissioned report warns that if nothing changes, California’s coastal waters will rise at a rate 30 to 40 times faster than in the last century.

The potential result: crippled economies, compromised public safety, submerged infrastructure, and a forced retreat from our iconic Pacific coast.

No state has done more than California to curb greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change and sea-level rise. But experts say that even if carbon reductions continue, residual warming of the ocean will continue unchecked, breeding surges that will impact the state’s coast and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

A consensus of scientific research makes catastrophic projections that, in the worst case, will be reality by the end of this century

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climategate; globalism; globalwarming; hoax; scientism; socialism
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To: BenLurkin
Zackly. And The Great Lakes and Niagara Falls would still be glaciers. As would Yosemiten National Park, Glacier National Park. So would Great Britain, Ireland, and Scotland.

And Iceland would actually be covered in ice instead of being green as a meadow.

21 posted on 04/30/2017 8:46:51 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Can't wait to be able to see the ocean from my home in Lodi.

Just think of the benefits to California of having the coastal areas under water. All of LA, SF, San Jose, and Hollywood will be gone. The state will become a conservative bastion.

22 posted on 04/30/2017 8:47:42 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (TRUMP. He makes me smile, too.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Has anyone actually seen any evidence that the ocean level, world-wide, has actually risen over the past two hundred years?


23 posted on 04/30/2017 8:48:28 AM PDT by JustTheTruth
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To: rktman

Now don’t go remembering things an environmentalist said two weeks ago.


24 posted on 04/30/2017 8:48:29 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just think of all that water going into the cracks and lubricating the faults - lots of slippage, solving the CA problem.

The story basically asks you to believe that one quarter of all the Earth’s ice will melt, since if all ice including that in people’s fridges were to melt seal level would only rise 40 feet, unlike the melt from the Ice Cap which caused sea level to rice 300-400 feet.


25 posted on 04/30/2017 8:49:22 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
California coast ocean level could rise 10 feet in 70 years

Doomsayers like Al Gore need to follow this example - push the scary, baseless forecast out so long that no one will remember it when the time comes. Saying the world will end in 10 years is just setting yourself up for ridicule 10 years down the line - just look at Gore.
26 posted on 04/30/2017 8:49:57 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Gen.Blather

But the surfing will be epic


27 posted on 04/30/2017 8:50:04 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My knees are not buckling.

Has anyone calculated the volume of water required to raise the sea level? Has to figure in the total surface area of all the connected seas and oceans in the world.
What volume of ice and snow has to melt to raise the level that much?
I don’t know the values. If I did I would be able to do the math.


28 posted on 04/30/2017 8:50:05 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cleverly destroying leftist idols with great gusto.)
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To: All

What amazes me more than these zany predictions is that a lot people actually believe this BS....


29 posted on 04/30/2017 8:50:29 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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And some day the Cascadia fault zone is going to rupture and generate 100’ tsunamis along the coast-more taxes more taxes we have to stop this. Oh the liberals are so entertaining now that they have discovered climate change in Geology 101,


30 posted on 04/30/2017 8:50:59 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Because their predictions lies have been so accurate over the years.
31 posted on 04/30/2017 8:51:00 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“NATURAL EROSION. We will blame this too on the Jews.” JG


33 posted on 04/30/2017 8:53:40 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (426)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If this has ANY CREDIBILIY the water along every Coast line world wide would rise 10 feet.

Someone needs to think reality.


34 posted on 04/30/2017 8:55:11 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They say that like it's a bad thing. Image and video hosting by TinyPic
35 posted on 04/30/2017 8:55:50 AM PDT by tumblindice (Shut it down)
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To: I want the USA back

In addition polar ice caps are floating so why would the level rise if they melt. I doubt the melting glaciers alone, assuming they all melt at an alarmingly unscientific rate, could raise the ocean level that much. And i can make a computer model to prove it. And i am not a scientist like bill nye</s>


36 posted on 04/30/2017 8:56:28 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Somebody better let Al Gore know about this so he can sell his seaside mansion in California before its flooded.


37 posted on 04/30/2017 8:56:50 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcherhttp://www.stone)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The propaganda group that wrote this is a little known operation: https://calmatters.org/

The staff are a group of Left-ish recycleds from the LA Slimes, Penton and a few kids.

Would be interesting to know who they get their funding from. This article ran in Santa Cruz and San Jose on the day the “climate change” tantrums were going on, so it’s a coordinated propaganda piece.

There isn’t a single credible source for BS like a 10 foot mean sea level change in 100 years. More like a few inches. But they use words like “knee buckling” to conjure fear.

All part of the scam to impose a tax on breathing by the Rat filth party.


38 posted on 04/30/2017 8:57:21 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Appropriate photo for this article.

How many bad predictions do we have to go through until we stop listening to fools?

39 posted on 04/30/2017 8:57:30 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: butlerweave
Hmmmn. Less than 2 mm PER year x 100 years = NOT!

Pure lies.

40 posted on 04/30/2017 8:58:09 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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