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In Progress: Fastest Sea Rise In At Least 2800 Years (www.cbc.ca)
Layzej writes: A new study finds that sea levels on Earth are rising several times faster than they have in the past 2,800 years and are accelerating. Co-author Stefan Rahmstorf explains that the fact that the rise in the 20th century is so large is a logical physical consequence of man-made global warming. This is melting continental ice and thus adds extra water to the oceans. In addition, as the sea water warms up it expands. The data from the past can also be used for future projections, using a so-called semi-empirical model calibrated with the historically observed relationship between temperature and sea level. With the new data, this results in a projected increase in the 21st century of 24-131 cm, depending on our emissions and thus on the extent of global warming.
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-Styopa
this research was actually completed during the Harper Regime in Canada, but was intentionally silenced until now.
It is as bad as people have been telling you.
Oh, and if you're a billionaire, you could snap up all the coal firms in the world right now for $150 million and just sit on the coal, because we need to keep all fossil fuels in the ground, unless you want your waterfront home to be underwater.
Cheap, really.
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You're thinking "Rising Oceans" are like a bathtub filling up. It's more like a statistical increase in flooding events. Exactly what insurance companies are leery of.
The land value hasn't gone down at all in response to global warming.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Maybe it's this. Salt water remains liquid at lower temperatures than fresh water. So the melted ice water could still be warmer than the ocean it's pouring into.
Do you know the difference between inference and observation?
Observation: Seeing a broken vase, looking around and finding a golf ball in the room, a broken window, and a note from an asshole taped to your front door saying "Sorry I sliced straight into your house. Hope nothing in there was worth more than $5. Here's $6 to cover the damages just in case there was."
Inference: "The asshole broke it with a golf ball!"
Guess what? The vase was broken when the cleaning lady knocked it over. You can throw all the cute tirades over golfing assholes that you'd like. We've heard it all a million. fucking. times. but that doesn't mean the asshole broke your vase. He IS an asshole. He busted the window. He COULD have broken the vase, had the cleaning lady not done it first, but jumping to the conclusion that He Done It is bad science.
Blaming shit on global warming is a climatologist's way of saying "I'm through researching this shit. Let's call it a day"
Blaming shit on evolution is a biologist's way of saying "I'm through researching this shit. Let's call it a day"
Blaming shit on extra dimensions is a physicist's way of saying "I'm through researching this shit. Let's call it a day"
It's possible that the assessment is correct -- but the argument excuses the lack of actual research and asking difficult questions, which is intellectually criminal. Are sea levels rising that fast only because of "anthropogenic global warming"? Is that their final fucking answer? I can come up with at least 3 other major contributors. Who the fuck cares about that, though? They tagged it as "Global Warming" so their zealots will swarm around them, defending their "findings" to their very deaths, screeching and cursing those demonic, evil corporations, and thanking their scientific priesthood for yet another burnt offering on the altar of "science". Two idiots that can't read a data graph to save their lives said sea levels rising was due to man-made global warming -- better spill some blood in their defense!!!
In Tracy Kidder's book House, he interviews a carpenter who talks about stairs. The carpenter claims that if you were to play a slow motion film of people walking up stairs you'd see that the soles of their feet clear the top of each stair tread by a couple of millimeters. They take the first step and then instinctively lift each foot by no more than they absolutely have to clear each step. That's why it's critically important to get the height of the first step right; if it's just a little bit off the stairway will forever after be tripping people up, but they won't know why because the difference is imperceptible.
There's something like that when it comes to buying land in a floodplain. The past performance of flood control structures is like that first step on the stairway; it sets peoples' expectations to future performance. But those structures introduce a discontinuity into a gradually increasing water level. The water may have come within an inch of the seawall top a half dozen times in the last year, but an inch is as good as a mile. But if the sea level rises an inch, well that doesn't sound like much but a lot of people will notice.
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