ReinyDays
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Sea level can not be measured
Did you read the citation? ...
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Sea level can not be measured
Did you read the citation? ...
Can you show us ONE SINGLE PHOTO of a land mass "sinking" due to "ocean rise?"
Then I'm wasting my time, aren't I.Crick, you have overestimated the attention span of our USMB correspondents. You need to give us the Cliff's Notes version.
But after we get the detailed, scientific explanation and conclusions, what "we" want to see is a picture of some fishing pier at high tide 50 years ago, as compared with last week. Maybe try Venice, Italy, or New Orleans.
Without that, nobody is buying any horror story.
You just mentioned that the data are coming from a satellite. So what the fuck does their distance from the ocean matter?Makes sense to me ... we measure atmospheric carbon dioxide on the flanks of the world's largest active volcano ... Mauna Loa recently erupted and destroyed the road to the CO2 measuring equipment ... c'mon, measuring sea level from Colorado is tame in comparison ...
Crick, you have overestimated the attention span of our USMB correspondents. You need to give us the Cliff's Notes version.
But after we get the detailed, scientific explanation and conclusions, what "we" want to see is a picture of some fishing pier at high tide 50 years ago, as compared with last week. Maybe try Venice, Italy, or New Orleans.
Without that, nobody is buying any horror story.
I think I know what you were trying to say and I can guarantee you that if sea level rose 100 meters, the coastline would not be in the same place.Yeah, for us it's whether our cities are under water or going to be under water or not. If the sea levels rise 100 meters and yet the sea level is at the same place as it was 50 years ago.... then it's not an issue
I think I know what you were trying to say and I can guarantee you that if sea level rose 100 meters, the coastline would not be in the same place.
The world's oceans are rising. As long as the world gets warmer, they will continue to rise. And even if temperature magically stabilized right where its at right now, Greenland and Antarctica would continue to melt. Do you think that process will never do any harm? When a hurricane approaches the coast, it pushes a surge of water ahead of itself; a surge that will flood coastal regions. If the surge would have been 6 feet before the Industrial Revolution, today, it will be 6 feet 9 inches. That 9 inches could easily flood another few blocks of houses and businesses along the entire front of the surge. Do you consider that to be no harm done?Maybe, but the point still stands. You can't go around telling people sea levels are rising when the coastline remains at the same level.
People will just mock science.
The world's oceans are rising. As long as the world gets warmer, they will continue to rise. And even if temperature magically stabilized right where its at right now, Greenland and Antarctica would continue to melt. Do you think that process will never do any harm? When a hurricane approaches the coast, it pushes a surge of water ahead of itself; a surge that will flood coastal regions. If the surge would have been 6 feet before the Industrial Revolution, today, it will be 6 feet 9 inches. That 9 inches could easily flood another few blocks of houses and businesses along the entire front of the surge. Do you consider that to be no harm done?
And it will get higher. And the rate at which it is getting higher is accelerating.
Those of you who claim to need a photograph need to figure out how smart it'd be to wait long enough for that sort of visibility. I'm just wondering what you'd do then. If sea level is up 3 or 4 feet, do you think you're just going to turn it off somewhere?