This is the danger of ignorance and in this case arrogant ignorance to humanity. I mean people living on a small island that refuse to believe a rising sea in front of their own eyes. Good lord this is such a rejection of reality it is hard to fathom. Make no mistake, human beings can be made to believe anything. If you said the words cognitive dissonance not a single one of them would know or care what it means.
This is like people sitting on the deck of the Titanic as the water rises to their feet and they're still sure the ship isn't sinking.
Yeah, because if the water is rising on the sides of your ship, that means the entire planet is sinking into ocean.
You are an idiot. You know that, don't you?
You believe an island is floating on water like a ship? Ok then Copernicus, sounds like you have all your planets aligned to Kolob. Good work and I like your tin-foil hat. Very stylish.
Is sea level changing on the shores of Chesapeake Bay right nearby? Er . . . . no, it isn't. But you, the rocket scientist, concludes it is because you live on an Island that's eroding away.
******* dumb shit. Don't you ever even research anything before you post your idiocy?
USGS Chesapeake Bay Activities Science Summary - Sea-Level Rise and Chesapeake Bay
Modern Sea-Level Rise
Two major factors contribute to global sea-level rise: thermal expansion from increasing ocean heat content, and the melting of glaciers and the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Since about 2003, glaciers and ice sheets (
fig. 2) have contributed a greater proportion of the global sea-level rise than thermal expansion (Meier and others, 2007; Cogley, 2009; Rignot, Bamber, and others, 2008; Rignot, Box, and others, 2008). Today’s glaciers and ice sheets store enough water to raise sea level by about 68 to 70 m. Calculated rates of global mean sea-level rise range from 1.7 to 3.2 mm/yr, depending on the time period examined (Cazenave and Llovel, 2010; Church and White, 2011). Detecting fluctuations in the rate of sea-level change can be difficult as a result of the short period of record of tide gages and chronological uncertainty in marsh paleo-sea-level studies (Larsen and Clark, 2006). Some
key findingsinclude:
- Chesapeake Bay tide-gage records and paleo-sea-level records from tidal marshes and the bay’s main stem, determined from sediment cores collected from 1995 to 2006 (fig. 1), show that rates of sea-level rise in Chesapeake Bay range from about 3.2 to 4.7 mm/yr depending on the location and period of record for each tide gage. These rates exceed the global average because the land is subsiding; therefore, the Chesapeake Bay area is more vulnerable than many other coastal regions to sea-level rise.
- The departure of sea-level trends in Chesapeake Bay from the global mean for the last century may not persist. Therefore, rates measured at tide gages do not necessarily reflect pre-20th century regional patterns, nor can they be expected to persist into the future.
- Estimates of local subsidence from groundwater withdrawal in parts of Virginia are 1.5 and 3.7 mm/yr for 1979–95 and 1982–95, respectively (Pope and Burbey, 2004). Subsidence is expected to increase with greater withdrawals.
Projecting Future Sea-Level Rise
Projecting future sea-level rise is one of the most challenging aspects of the study of climate change. Although uncertainty remains great, empirical and modeling methods used in recent studies have provided new estimates of the cumulative rise in sea level by 2100 (Rahmstorf, 2007, 2010; Vermeer and Rahmstorf, 2009; Pfeffer and others, 2008; Bahr and others, 2009; Rignot and others, 2011). Some
key findings include:
- Evidence indicates a total rise of about 80 to 130 centimeters (cm), which is equivalent to annual rates of about 9 to 14 mm/yr, during the 21st century. Grinsted and others (2010) showed that sea-level rise could reach rates as high as 11 mm/yr by 2050. These values are estimated mean global rates and do not exclude the possibilities that slower or faster rates may persist for years to decades, that sea level may fall at times, or that regional rates for a particular coastline could be much greater than mean rates.
