sigh...as if the price of real estate has anything to do with reality..it is one of the most venal elites in the world - just look
at the hitler wannabe that it produced..
i would not want a plumber to do a heart operation on me, so i am always amused when some right wing pundit with half an idea thinks
he ( they are nearly always men) knows more than the overwhelming majority of climate scientists and oceonographers..
"Scientists have been tracking sea level along coastlines using tidal gauges for more than a century. And since the 1990s, satellite measurements have given them an even more complete view of sea level over the global ocean. Those data unequivocally show a rise in sea level. Averaged over the entire ocean, the increases are small—just three millimeters per year, or about the width of two grains of rice laid side by side. But those millimeters add up, with sea level rising more than seven centimeters (a little more than three inches) in just 25 years. What’s more, Piecuch says, “it’s not just rising, it’s accelerating. It’s rising faster every year.”
The global increase is caused by two factors: melting glaciers and warming ocean waters. Sea ice doesn’t change sea level, because the weight of the floating ice displaces the water beneath it. When that ice melts, the total volume of water remains unchanged. But as glaciers and ice sheets on land melt, the water they contain flows out to sea, adding to the total volume of water in the ocean. “About two-thirds of the global-mean sea-level rise we’ve seen since the early nineties is due to melting of land ice,” Piecuch notes. The remaining third is due to thermal expansion of the oceans. As water warms, it expands, taking up more space. Since the only direction it can expand is up, it pushes sea level higher.
By the end of the century, these accelerating changes will lead to increases of several feet globally, but the more immediate problem lies in smaller but recurring high-tide flood events, Piecuch says. These can happen during full-moon high tides, passing storms, or El Niño events. As sea level rises, it takes less extraordinary circumstances for those floods to happen. “Rates of minor or nuisance flooding along the U.S. coast have doubled over the past two decades,” Piecuch says. Roads and buildings flood or water bubbles up through sewer drains. A single flood like this doesn’t cause hurricane-level damage, but those smaller floods happen much more often. The costs accumulate over time, sometimes surpassing the costs of a post-storm clean-up from a larger event. And those aren’t going to stop any time soon, Piecuch notes. “Places that never used to see this high-tide flooding are now seeing it several times a year, and in the next couple decades, it’s going to be happening tens of times a year.”
Physical oceanographer and sea-level rise expert Chris Piecuch says sea level is rising -- and faster every year
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