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I bet Miami is sinking do to all the MC mansions not sea level rise..
I'll take that bet....Uh oh, you lose.
Certified measurements of sea level have been taken at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School on Virginia Key since 1996 (Virginia Key is a small island just south of Miami Beach and east of downtown Miami). Simple linear trends drawn through annual averages of all high tides, low tides, and the mean sea level are shown below, and all three lines are about 4.5″ higher in 2013 than they were in 1996. Water, Water, Everywhere: Sea Level Rise in Miami | RSMAS Blog
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I'll take that bet....Uh oh, you lose.
Certified measurements of sea level have been taken at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School on Virginia Key since 1996 (Virginia Key is a small island just south of Miami Beach and east of downtown Miami). Simple linear trends drawn through annual averages of all high tides, low tides, and the mean sea level are shown below, and all three lines are about 4.5″ higher in 2013 than they were in 1996. Water, Water, Everywhere: Sea Level Rise in Miami | RSMAS Blog
they are sucking to much water out from under all the MC mansions with MC swimming pools.
As though there was not enough evidence of global warming, the National Academy of Sciences came out with a study that sea levels are the highest in 6,000 years and that the rise began about 150 years ago when humanity started pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Really, how much evidence does one need to accept global warming as a fact that it is. The following article is from USA Today. I have put in bold the more salient points of the article.
6000 years? Not 10-12 thousand years since the end of the last major glaciation?
From the article:
Researchers studied examples of past sediments in Australia and Asia that dated back 35,000 years and found that overall, the planet's sea level was fairly stable for most of the past 6,000 years.
Well maybe. But the number 150 should be of note. Yoo hoo - Little Ice age. Water was trapped in glaciers during that period, and when that ice event ended, big surprise ice melted and sure sea levels SHOULD rise.
From the article:
Sea level has risen nearly 8 inches worldwide since 1880, but it doesn't rise at the same level. In the past century or so, it has climbed about a foot or more in some U.S. cities such as Charleston, Norfolk and Galveston because of the added influence of ocean currents and land subsidence
Is anyone surprised that when glaciers melt, the sea levels rise? What else should one expect when and ice age ends?
From the article:
Global sea level will rise 1 to 3 feet around the world by the end of this century, according to this year's Fifth Assessment Report by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
As though there was not enough evidence of global warming, the National Academy of Sciences came out with a study that sea levels are the highest in 6,000 years and that the rise began about 150 years ago when humanity started pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Really, how much evidence does one need to accept global warming as a fact that it is. The following article is from USA Today. I have put in bold the more salient points of the article.
The earth is 4.5 Billion years old, which means that 6,000 years is less than a microsecond on the cosmic timeline. Statistically, it's not enough time to make any prediction whatsoever, much less a doom and gloom prediction about climate change.
The only way that you could give this study any credence whatsoever is if you bought into the Young Earth theory which claims that the earth is only 6,000 years old to begin with. Otherwise, if you believe that this study means anything whatsoever then you have zero knowledge of how science and statistics work.
The earth is 4.5 Billion years old, which means that 6,000 years is less than a microsecond on the cosmic timeline. Statistically, it's not enough time to make any prediction whatsoever, much less a doom and gloom prediction about climate change.
The only way that you could give this study any credence whatsoever is if you bought into the Young Earth theory which claims that the earth is only 6,000 years old to begin with. Otherwise, if you believe that this study means anything whatsoever then you have zero knowledge of how science and statistics work.
JimRom, I was thinking the same thing, how can one make a statistical claim based on 150 years of climate monitoring when this planet is 4.5 billion years old. That's like saying it is going to be a very wet year because we has .01 of an inch of rain last month.
They really need to put these stats in perspective.
As though there was not enough evidence of global warming, the National Academy of Sciences came out with a study that sea levels are the highest in 6,000 years and that the rise began about 150 years ago when humanity started pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Really, how much evidence does one need to accept global warming as a fact that it is. The following article is from USA Today. I have put in bold the more salient points of the article. Study: Recent sea level rise is highest in 6,000 years
News flash for science deniers, the oceans have been rising since the end of the last glacial period, and they will continue to rise.
There has been no global warming for 17 years, much less "catastrophic" global warming.
JimRom, I was thinking the same thing, how can one make a statistical claim based on 150 years of climate monitoring when this planet is 4.5 billion years old. That's like saying it is going to be a very wet year because we has .01 of an inch of rain last month.
They really need to put these stats in perspective.
They base claims for the history and future of our climate, with even less than 150 years of data, when using ocean monitoring buoy data that have only been around for a couple decades, and in some cases only 11 years or so.
As though there was not enough evidence of global warming, the National Academy of Sciences came out with a study that sea levels are the highest in 6,000 years and that the rise began about 150 years ago when humanity started pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Really, how much evidence does one need to accept global warming as a fact that it is. The following article is from USA Today. I have put in bold the more salient points of the article.
Tell that to al-Gore who bought ocean front houses.
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