Sure, look up Sunset Cliffs California (San Diego). They have photo's from 100 years ago and just last year. No change. You can do the same with every coastal city out there. They almost all have photo's of the shorelines. Compare them. No change.
Businessmen make decisions based on business NOT science. If an airport will turn a profit in 10 years and will not be underwater for 50 years, it is still a great investment. Not surprising a geologist doesn't know that.
And we have pictures from 100 years ago that show no sea level increase, and we have the Maldives, darlings of the "we are going to drown" crowd, investing billions of dollars to make lots of new international airports so they can bring tourists to their island paradise. Not something anyone in their right mind would do if the claims were real. These are a few of the new airports. Please note how there is NO defense against a so called rising ocean.
Hmmm. Maybe all of those sea level rising claims are lies.
These pictures sure convince me they are all bullshit.
"The 5 New Airports in Maldives 2020
Last night, Transportation Minister Aishath Nahula announced the dates of the openings of new airports in Maldives in 2020.
5 airports are to be opened this year: Funadho Airport, Maavarulu Airport, Madivaru Airport, Hoarafushi Airport and Fares Maathoda Airport.
Funadhoo Airport in Shaviyani Atoll will be opening earliest in January. The runway stretches to 1,200 meters. The first airport in Shaviyani Atoll is developed at a cost of USD 5.742 million.
And what is this supposed to prove? These are small cheap private plane 'airports'/strips, made with Dredged Sand and on RECLAIMED Land.
Is that not OBVIOUS to you?
WTF!
"...Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) was awarded a MVR 50 million (USD 3.23 million) contract in 2018 to Reclaim 21 hectares of land off the northwestern end of Funadhoo and build a 1,200-metre runway. The company had completed the runway along with an apron and taxiway in March.
Another MVR 57 million (USD 3.69 million) contract was awarded to the public company in 2018 to develop a 1,200-metre runway, a taxiway, an apron and a jetty at Maavarulu.
MTCC was also contracted in 2018 to Reclaim 16 hectares of land from the lagoon of Hoarafushi and the neighbouring uninhabited island of Maafinolhu for the airport development project...."
A geologist, such as yourself, knows that the coast of California is tectonically active and would not be a good measure of a constant elevation.
Businessmen make decisions based on business NOT science. If an airport will turn a profit in 10 years and will not be underwater for 50 years, it is still a great investment. Not surprising a geologist doesn't know that.
Yeah? So? You are saying that the rate of isostatic rebound is magically the same as the sea level rise. Is that your claim?
A businessman who ignores science, such as you are claiming in the Maldives, will quickly be OUT of business. No one invests billions if the science says their investment will be under water long before they can recoup their investment.
And what is this supposed to prove?
These are small cheap private plane 'airports'/strips, made with Dredged Sand and on RECLAIMED Land.
Is that not OBVIOUS to you?
WTF!
"...Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) was awarded a MVR 50 million (USD 3.23 million) contract in 2018 to Reclaim 21 hectares of land off the northwestern end of Funadhoo and build a 1,200-metre runway. The company had completed the runway along with an apron and taxiway in March.
Another MVR 57 million (USD 3.69 million) contract was awarded to the public company in 2018 to develop a 1,200-metre runway, a taxiway, an apron and a jetty at Maavarulu.
MTCC was also contracted in 2018 to Reclaim 16 hectares of land from the lagoon of Hoarafushi and the neighbouring uninhabited island of Maafinolhu for the airport development project...."
A businessman who ignores science, such as you are claiming in the Maldives, will quickly be OUT of business. No one invests billions if the science says their investment will be under water long before they can recoup their investment.
I can't believe a scientist is willing to get their scientific findings from what a group of businessmen decide. Investing is a gamble, science is not.
A geologist, such as yourself, knows that the coast of California is tectonically active and would not be a good measure of a constant elevation.
Businessmen make decisions based on business NOT science. If an airport will turn a profit in 10 years and will not be underwater for 50 years, it is still a great investment. Not surprising a geologist doesn't know that.
Honestly, looking at his posts, I really doubt he is a geologist. Too many dumb ass posts that state exactly the opposite of what geologists in the AGU and GSA are publishing.
Sure, look up Sunset Cliffs California (San Diego). They have photo's from 100 years ago and just last year. No change. You can do the same with every coastal city out there. They almost all have photo's of the shorelines. Compare them. No change.
Businessmen make decisions based on science. Funny how a supposed geologist (you) don't know that.
I can't believe a scientist is willing to get their scientific findings from what a group of businessmen decide. Investing is a gamble, science is not.
Seriously? The Sierra Nevada mountains were under mile thick slabs of ice. You think that had no effect?
Businessmen use science to make decisions all of the time. If the science showed that the Maldives were going underwater, no one would be building airports there.
Two things wrong with that assertion. What is your evidence for mile thick slabs of ice? I don't need to remind a fellow geologist that the Sierras in the ice age were not connected to other ice sheets. Secondly, are they on the same plate as coastal CA?
Businessmen use science to make decisions all of the time. If the science showed that the Maldives were going underwater, no one would be building airports there.
You're more enamored of businessmen than I am. They still build hotel on the southern coasts KNOWING they will eventually get hit by a hurricane, rising sea or no. They take risks, that is what they do. Who gives them insurance, I have no idea.
It is obvious first of all, since the temp of Venus is NOT primarily due to it being closer to the sun.
But obviously global warming has positive feedback mechanisms that have to lead to a race condition, if allowed.
In particular, the hotter the planet gets, the more moisture evaporates into the atmosphere, and that then greatly increases the heat retention.
There is no way to stop the Earth from becoming the temperature of molten lead if we get to the point the temperature gets high enough to start enough water vapor evaporating.
As the Earth heats up more water will make its way into the atmosphere, trapping even heat near the surface. To predict how much temperatures could rise in the future, scientists are working to understand how much water could enter the atmosphere and how that might contribute to climate change.
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Will Runaway Water Warm the World?
Across the globe, temperatures are slowly creeping up. According to the U.S. National Climatic Data Center, the global average surface temperature has gone up 0.4 degrees Celsius (plus or minus 0.1 degree) in the past 25 years alone. While the extra heat may not have you sweating yet, larger increases are predicted, and that has some people tugging at their collars. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a policy advisory group made up of members of the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, estimates that the average global surface temperature could climb anywhere from 1.4 to 5.8 degrees Celsius by the year 2100.
Part of the reason the predicted temperature range is so great is that scientists don’t entirely understand whether the atmosphere will become more humid as it warms, and humidity is one of the primary factors that will influence how much the climate will warm over the next century. If the humidity of the atmosphere does indeed increase, it can as much as double the warming from carbon dioxide alone. Thus, an understanding of how the humidity of the atmosphere will change is of fundamental importance in predicting future climate. The problem is one that Ken Minschwaner and Andrew Dessler, researchers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, have worked to remedy using data from the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS).
Minschwaner, also a Professor of Physics at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and Dessler, also a researcher with the University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, formulated a simple, one-dimensional model to describe how the humidity of the atmosphere will change as the Earth heats up in response to carbon dioxide emissions from burning of fossil fuels. Surprisingly, their model predicted smaller increases in humidity in the upper atmosphere than large global climate models do, and data collected by the Microwave Limb Sounder and the Halogen Occultation Experiment on NASA’s UARS satellite support their model. Their findings imply that the Earth will warm significantly, but probably not as much as most global climate models predict. Their results appeared in the Journal of Climate on March 15, 2004.
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Predictions of warming in the next 100 years vary by about 5 degrees Celsius, from a low of 1.4 degrees to a high of 5.6 degrees. The wide variation is due in part to uncertainty in the magnitude of the feedback between warming and increased rates of evaporation. In this graph, dark green areas represent predictions based on the averaged results of multiple climate models, while light green areas represent the predictions of single climate models.
...}
As the Earth heats up more water will make its way into the atmosphere, trapping even heat near the surface. To predict how much temperatures could rise in the future, scientists are working to understand how much water could enter the atmosphere and how that might contribute to climate change.
Two things wrong with that assertion. What is your evidence for mile thick slabs of ice? I don't need to remind a fellow geologist that the Sierras in the ice age were not connected to other ice sheets. Secondly, are they on the same plate as coastal CA?
You're more enamored of businessmen than I am. They still build hotel on the southern coasts KNOWING they will eventually get hit by a hurricane, rising sea or no. They take risks, that is what they do. Who gives them insurance, I have no idea.
How global climatic changes are translated into ice-sheet fluctuations and sea-level change is not well understood. Here the authors present a compilation of empirical data and numerical modelling results of pre-LGM Northern Hemisphere ice sheet changes and show pronounced ice-sheet asymmetry...
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