What dramatic sea level rise could do

[Orangecat]

Seriously, Crick, what do you suggest doing about this situation: change your own habits or force everyone else to change theirs?

 

[fncceo]

remaining close to the water's edge could be fatal.

I'll risk it ...

 

[Concerned American]

I'll risk it ...

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My global temp just rose by 2.5 C

 

[Crick]

Those were published peer reviewed studies decades ago.

Yawn

Show us one. Just one. Or admit you just made it up.

 

[Crick]

I'll risk it ...

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I think she might not look all that attractive (even for a drawing) if she was standing in 10 or 20% H2S.

 

[BackAgain]

Think of all the people who will now have oceanfront property

That was the Superman movie plot with Gene Hackman.

Rhys the famous one where Superman was too slow to stop both missile, and one detonated causing the San Andreas fault to go keeping. But in a moment Superman was able to go so fast counterclockwise around planet Earth that he reversed time itself in order to fix his earlier miss.

 

[Concerned American]

if

That's a big word^^. Too bad you have nothing to base it on.

 

[Crick]

That's a big word^^. Too bad you have nothing to base it on.

Perhaps you could try reading the OP and its linked article/study.

 

[Crick]

That was the Superman movie plot with Gene Hackman.

Rhys the famous one where Superman was too slow to stop both missile, and one detonated causing the San Andreas fault to go keeping. But in a moment Superman was able to go so fast counterclockwise around planet Earth that he reversed time itself in order to fix his earlier miss.

Did you see the SNL skit on that point?

 

[Concerned American]

Perhaps you could try reading the OP and its linked article/study.

Perhaps you could explain how any of that exhibits that man had anything to do with those historic kill offs?

 

[BackAgain]

Did you see the SNL skit on that point?

I didn’t. But I’m not surprised. The objection to that hole in the script is not unique to me.

 

[Crick]

Perhaps you could explain how any of that exhibits that man had anything to do with those historic kill offs?

There's no need because neither the study nor the article suggest any such thing. What they suggest is that some event that causes a sudden rise in sea level (collapse of the WAIS or dramatically increased melting in Antarctica could lead to the same conditions that occurred in the late Devonian and kill large numbers of benthic and littoral organisms.

 

[Concerned American]

dramatically increased melting in Antarctica could lead to the same conditions

Hardly a scientific word, wouldn't you agree ^^. Thank you for admitting that the previous kill offs had nothing to do with man. Now it would be nice if you would concede that all of this noise about AGW/CC is nothing more than panic porn conjecture of what COULD happen.

 

[BackAgain]

Sea and ocean levels don’t rise in only one part of the globe. If islands in Micronesia are in peril of being covered in a rising ocean, then the other side of the globe will bear witness to that same level of high tide in about 12 hours.

That being so, it is a fair question to ask why sea levels at one seacoast location (say at Plymouth Rock) isn’t also covered at high tide?

 

[Crick]

Sea and ocean levels don’t rise in only one part of the globe. If islands in Micronesia are in peril of being covered in a rising ocean, then the other side of the globe will bear witness to that same level of high tide in about 12 hours.

That being so, it is a fair question to ask why sea levels at one seacoast location (say at Plymouth Rock) isn’t also covered at high tide?

Sea levels actually do rise differently in different locations. They are several causes but the primary effect is because the ocean's surface is not a perfect sphere.
This is happening slowly enough that the rise and fall of landmasses needs to be accounted for. A coastal region that is simultaneiously sinking will have a much different experience compared to one that is upllifting. Additionally, irregularities in the Earth's gravity field can distort the ocean's surface from a perfect sphere. Mountain ranges pull harder while trench systems have a weaker pull. The actual long term surface of the oceans (ie, ignoring wave action) map the detailed gravity field of the planet. It is actually possible to use the Earth's field for navigation like a tercon (terrain contour matching) system.
Currents and winds can also push masses of water around. The circulation of the Gulf Stream drives water higher at the coast than in the middle of the basin and the same to differing degrees in all the other basins.

 

[Concerned American]

Sea and ocean levels don’t rise in only one part of the globe. If islands in Micronesia are in peril of being covered in a rising ocean, then the other side of the globe will bear witness to that same level of high tide in about 12 hours.

That being so, it is a fair question to ask why sea levels at one seacoast location (say at Plymouth Rock) isn’t also covered at high tide?

And if this dramatic sea level is so devastating, why do we not see the loss of land in the FL Keys where elevations are, in many places, below the level they claim the sea has increased to? Hmmm.

 

[HeyNorm]

Show us one. Just one. Or admit you just made it up.

Al Gore wouldn’t lie!



Would he? Drama Queen.

 

[Crick]

Al Gore wouldn’t lie!



Would he? Drama Queen.

We were promised "published peer-reviewed studies", not the comments of the Vice President.

 

[BackAgain]

Sea levels actually do rise differently in different locations. They are several causes but the primary effect is because the ocean's surface is not a perfect sphere.
This is happening slowly enough that the rise and fall of landmasses needs to be accounted for. A coastal region that is simultaneiously sinking will have a much different experience compared to one that is upllifting. Additionally, irregularities in the Earth's gravity field can distort the ocean's surface from a perfect sphere. Mountain ranges pull harder while trench systems have a weaker pull. The actual long term surface of the oceans (ie, ignoring wave action) map the detailed gravity field of the planet. It is actually possible to use the Earth's field for navigation like a tercon (terrain contour matching) system.
Currents and winds can also push masses of water around. The circulation of the Gulf Stream drives water higher at the coast than in the middle of the basin and the same to differing degrees in all the other basins.

Come on. Even over an irregular sea floor, the surface level would still be approximately the same.

This is why the measurements of landmarks like Plymouth Rock tend toward a fair challenge to the claims of the alarmists.

We all know that sea levels are variable over long periods of time, naturally. Ice ages led to water being locked up in ice on land. Ocean levels fell and the Bering Land Bridge could come into being.

But there isn’t much evidence that present day human behavior has actually impacted our ocean levels.

 

[HeyNorm]

We were promised "published peer-reviewed studies", not the comments of the Vice President.

You were promised all mankind dead. Never happens chicken little.