"sea level rising for centuries"

[Wolfstrike]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA3WaIxcP0o&feature=youtu.be]Man-made global warming hoax. documentary sea level rising for centuries - YouTube[/ame]

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[SSDD]

Of course....the ice caps have melted back almost 2000 miles during the course of the past 14,000 years. All that water had to go somewhere...but even so, sea level is not as high as it has been. If you live on a coastal area you know that you can travel inland and dig in the dirt and find seashells...that is because the earth has been much warmer than it is today....so warm, in fact, that for most of earth's history....even to the beginning of the ice age that we are presently exiting...there was no ice at one or both of the poles.

 

[waltky]

Cutting Short-Lived Pollutants, not CO2, Slows Sea Level Rise...

Report: Cutting Short-Lived Pollutants Slows Sea Level Rise
April 14, 2013 : There's still time to slow the rising of sea levels around the world, according to a new report from climate scientists, and their strategy does not focus on carbon dioxide.

CO2 building up in the atmosphere and trapping solar heat over the past century is widely blamed for today's melting glaciers, shrinking ice sheets and rising ocean waters. But other heat-trapping pollutants have a more short-term impact, and the researchers say cutting those emissions could be a more effective way to slow the rate of climate warming and reduce sea-level rise.

They identify methane, tropospheric ozone, hydrofluorocarbons and black carbon as pollutants that could be targeted, with technologies that already exist, to drastically cut their release. Quickly implementing that strategy could off-set warming temperatures by up to 50 percent by 2050, and reduce sea level rise by 22 to 42 percent by the end of the century. Delaying emission cuts would reduce the beneficial impact.

In their report, published in Nature Climate Change, the researchers stress that carbon dioxide is still the most important factor in sea level rise over the long term. But co-author Warren Washington of the National Center for Atmospheric Research notes that "we can make a real difference in the next several decades by reducing other emissions."

Report: Cutting Short-Lived Pollutants Slows Sea Level Rise

 

[Old Rocks]

However, we will neither cut back on short lived pollutants, nor long lived ones. Someone's ox will be gored either way, and the golden rule applies.

And when Mother Nature kicks in with her load of CH4, a shortlived pollutant that will become a long lived one in higher concentrations, things are going to get interesting.

 

[waltky]

Granny got Uncle Ferd nailin' pontoons onna side o' the trailer...

Climate study predicts watery future for US cities
Wed, Jul 31, 2013 - More than 1,700 US cities and towns — including Boston, New York, and Miami — will have significant populations living below the high-water mark by the end of this century, a new climate change study has found.

Those 1,700 towns are locked into a watery future by greenhouse gas emissions already built up in the atmosphere, the analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on Monday found. For nearly 80 of those cities, the watery future would come much sooner, within the next decade. “Even if we could just stop global emissions tomorrow on a dime, Fort Lauderdale, Miami Gardens, Hoboken, New Jersey will be under sea level,” said Benjamin Strauss, a researcher at Climate Central, and author of the paper. However, dramatic cuts in emissions — much greater than US President Barack Obama and other world leaders have so far agreed — could save nearly 1,000 of those towns, by averting the sea-level rise, the study fund. “Hundreds of American cities are already locked into watery futures and we are growing that group very rapidly,” Strauss said. “We are locking in hundreds more as we continue to emit carbon into the atmosphere.”

HIGH-WATER MARK

Those 1,700 cities would have 25 percent of their populations living below the high-water mark by 2100. About 79 cities and towns with a combined population of 835,000 would be staring down those waters by 2023. About half of the population of Fort Lauderdale, Hoboken, and Palm Beach, would be living below the high tide line by 2023. The list of cities at risk by 2100 spanned Sacramento, California — which lies far from the sea, but would be vulnerable to flooding in the San Joaquin delta — and Norfolk, Virginia. The latter town is home of the US’ largest navy base, whose kilometers of waterfront installations would be at risk by the 2040s. The Pentagon has already begun actively planning for a future under climate change, including relocating bases. About half the population of Cambridge, Massachusetts, across the Charles River from Boston and home to Harvard, would fall below sea-level by the early 2060s, the study found. Several coastal cities in Texas were also vulnerable.

HIGHEST RISK

However, the region at highest risk was Florida, which has dozens of towns which will fall below the high water mark by century’s end. Miami would be significantly under water by 2041, the study found. Half of Palm Beach with its millionaires’ estates along the sea front would be below the high water line by the 2060s. Other cities such as Fort Lauderdale were already well below sea-level. “Pretty much everywhere it seems you are going to be under water unless you build a massive system of dykes and levees,” Strauss said. The study drew on current research on sea-level rise. A recent study, also published in PNAS by the climate scientist Anders Levermann found each 1°C rise in atmospheric warming would lead eventually to 2.3m of sea-level rise.

Climate study predicts watery future for US cities - Taipei Times