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Report: Rising sea levels could flood 1 in 200 Seattle-area homes by end of century
Seattle Times ^ | October 19, 2017 | By Mike Rosenberg

Posted on 10/20/2017 12:11:12 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: txnativegop

All of these people (bureaucrats, scribes, educrats) need to find honest work.


21 posted on 10/20/2017 12:24:56 PM PDT by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: Thommas
Is there some geologic caveat that abrogates the levels of water over the planet?

Perhaps they are saying areas experiencing subsidence will have faster rising sea levels? Who knows?

22 posted on 10/20/2017 12:25:45 PM PDT by SSS Two
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To: MeganC

Well that makes the probability of Seattle flooding from rising sea level very remote.


23 posted on 10/20/2017 12:26:12 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

.....or monkeys could fly out my butt...............


24 posted on 10/20/2017 12:26:13 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

uh huh


25 posted on 10/20/2017 12:26:54 PM PDT by dforest
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To: x1stcav

they wouldn’t know how to find such work and couldn’t perform such work if they did.


26 posted on 10/20/2017 12:27:31 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: pgkdan

LOL.


27 posted on 10/20/2017 12:27:40 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: txnativegop

Ya know, Pol Pot wasn’t all bad. After all, he did send school teachers, the intelligentsia, and other elites to work in the fields.


28 posted on 10/20/2017 12:30:38 PM PDT by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: x1stcav

and now their bones are religious shrines.


29 posted on 10/20/2017 12:31:48 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“The homes would flood if local sea levels rise at least six feet due to the warming climate.”

Current DAILY tidal range in Seattle is 11 feet.
If your home is vertically closer to the ocean at high tide than the daily tidal change, you’re gonna lose it just from big waves or storm surges within a few years.


30 posted on 10/20/2017 12:33:21 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: MNDude

I say that In the year 2525. If man is still alive. If woman can survive, they may find In the year 3535....


31 posted on 10/20/2017 12:34:30 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t worry they used the word “Could”


32 posted on 10/20/2017 12:38:42 PM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

From the Michael Crichton speech at Caltech, “Aliens cause global warming”.

“”Stepping back, I have to say the arrogance of the model-makers is breathtaking. There have been, in every century, scientists who say they know it all. Since climate may be a chaotic system-no one is sure-these predictions are inherently doubtful, to be polite. But more to the point, even if the models get the science spot-on, they can never get the sociology. To predict anything about the world a hundred years from now is simply absurd.

Look: If I was selling stock in a company that I told you would be profitable in 2100, would you buy it? Or would you think the idea was so crazy that it must be a scam?

Let’s think back to people in 1900 in, say, New York. If they worried about people in 2000, what would they worry about? Probably: Where would people get enough horses? And what would they do about all the horse****?

Horse pollution was bad in 1900, think how much worse it would be a century later, with so many more people riding horses? But of course, within a few years, nobody rode horses except for sport.

And in 2000, France was getting 80% its power from an energy source that was unknown in 1900. Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Japan were getting more than 30% from this source, unknown in 1900. Remember, people in 1900 didn’t know what an atom was.

They didn’t know its structure. They also didn’t know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, IBM, IRA, ERA, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, internet. interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, prozac, leotards, lap dancing, email, tape recorder, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, teflon, fiber optics, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS. None of this would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900. They wouldn’t know what you are talking about.

Now. You tell me you can predict the world of 2100. Tell me it’s even worth thinking about. Our models just carry the present into the future. They’re bound to be wrong. Everybody who gives a moment’s thought knows it.”


33 posted on 10/20/2017 12:39:16 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
..One caveat: The government science report predicts that sea levels may rise more slowly across the Pacific Northwest than in other parts of the country, and that’s not accounted for in Zillow’s analysis.

Kansas comes to mind. Bwahaha...

34 posted on 10/20/2017 12:42:31 PM PDT by SGCOS
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To: txnativegop

Nearly all of Seattle (saltwater) waterfront is owned or occupied by industrial concerns. The only residential neighborhood that I can think of is Alki - and even if the water level was to rise 6 feet (profoundly unlikely), it would only affect about 500 families.

Most of Seattle residential waterfront is freshwater in the form of Lake Washington, which is separated from the Puget Sound by locks. That magical 6 foot water rise would have no effect.

As usual the left lies.


35 posted on 10/20/2017 12:43:04 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

Alinsky . . handbook for radicals.

an evil little book.


36 posted on 10/20/2017 12:44:35 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Of course, no facts to support the hysteria.

Look at NOAA’s own official sea level rise charts for Seattle.

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=9447130

Sea levels in Seattle rise .61 feet per century. Not real good at math, but to go up six feet it will take something like 1100 years.


37 posted on 10/20/2017 12:45:35 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Rising sea levels could flood 1 in 200 Seattle-area homes by end of century

And I could be alive to see it, the probability of either happening is slim to none.

38 posted on 10/20/2017 12:51:15 PM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change = garbage in, garbage out...


39 posted on 10/20/2017 12:52:18 PM PDT by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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To: colorado tanker

I thought there were millions underwater after the housing bubble busting?


40 posted on 10/20/2017 12:55:29 PM PDT by mazda77
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