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U.S. East Coast a Hotspot of Sea-Level Rise

Posted by timothy on from the because-of-all-the-sand-pumping-projects dept.

Harperdog writes "Nature just published this study of sea-level rise and how global warming does not force the it to happen everywhere at the same rate. Interesting stuff about what, exactly, contributes to this uneven rise, and how the East Coast of the U.S., which used to have a relatively low sea level, is now a hotspot in that the sea level there is rising faster than elsewhere."

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  1. It has nothing to do with global warming by Overzeetop · · Score: 5, Funny

    Global warming is myth. The sea levels are rising on the east coast of the US because all the fat Americans are causing a shift in mass distribution and locally higher gravitational forces.

    The nurse is here with my medication...brb

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  2. Re:Question by Antipater · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Humans are the only animal known to destroy their own habitat.

    I laughed, but then I got a creeping suspicion you were actually serious. Why do people always say this? It's just flat-out wrong.

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