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jerry
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jerry asked in EnvironmentGlobal Warming · 7 years ago

How soon before the massive sea level rise?

gets their feet wet

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1015209384...

hope the link work

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  • 7 years ago

    Whether it's fake or not, Kano is correct that with the amount of sea level rise that we've seen over that time period, it could easily have been masked by the tide. Where I live the tide's full magnitude is about 3 meters, that more than dwarfs any sea level rise over that time.

    What's really sad is that Jerry thinks it proves something sea level rise.

    I do like the picture, though, fake or not.

    EDIT for Raisin Caine: I think your idea of science is to ignore all scientific theories and "predict" the future by a extrapolation of the present and recent past. Might have been a good approach in the 17th century.

    EDIT for Darktood: Do you even realize that Gore's house is nowhere near sea level? If you do then you're a liar, if you don't you're a dupe.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Pegminer,

    I wonder why you actually realize the truth of how small the rise is and ignore all the scare-mongering dealing with ocean level rises.

    LOL, You think I actually argue with you warmers for my health??? Or because I am paid by the Koch brothers? Or some other fantasy in your head? I place up a good way of dealing with CO2, that certianly would not help out oil or any of the other interests you people name.

    Fact is that you warmers are your own biggest enemies. People go and visit the same beach they visited for 30, 40, 50 years and see no difference. Whether or not this pic is doctored, this is true. So when your warmer buddies talk about some climate apocalypse that you have been talking about since before 1988, what do you think their reaction is???

    Until you all calm down and start talking about reality and not some hyped up fantasy, people are going to continue to see little to no change and you will continue to lose more and more support. You don't honestly think that the paultry millions spent on "denial" is beating out your billions spent, do you? No! You are beating yourselves.

  • 7 years ago

    Interesting that a retired Englishman living in the Philippines would use a dime (not a penny) as his reference, but then he did get the estimate wrong, as current sea level rise is actually a little over 2 dimes per year.

    Current rise is 3.16mm per year ( a dime is 1.5mm thick) so in a decade sea level rise is 21 dimes stacked up. the rate didn't decelerate in 2004, kano tried to claim this in a paper he posted but the paper actually said thermal expansion had slowed but that the contribution of melting ice had increased making up the difference. Thermal expansion was only ever going to be a small part of the expected sea level rise most of it will come from the increase in the rate of melt of glaciers, and those glaciers are still melting.

    http://climate.nasa.gov/key_indicators#landIce

    P.S. on your facebook photo, as part of my hobby of genealogy I often restore old photos, something seemed a bit odd about the two pics, note the water pattern on the rock off the guys right hip and to the left of the women's leg (they are the same in both images) and the plant in the top left of both images is unchanged in 50 years, had you read even one of the first comments it was noted as being a fake.

    Interesting to see those like Dartwood are still trying to also trot out the fictional story of Gore buying a beachfront house, I guess that shows the level deniers are operating at.

    kano "Englishman" "Welshman" I can only work on what you say and as you previously stated you knew the beaches of England and where from England, I can only work on that, if you keep changing your back story, that's your problem, but then it's not the first time you went from being a retired fisherman to being a retired power station worker, without batting an eyelid.

    Mae eich dal i fod yn denier

  • 7 years ago

    Quote by Noel Brown, UN official: "Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of "eco-refugees," threatening political chaos."

    Ha! Ha! Isn't that just like the greenies. California is having a drought and they are trying to convince those liberals they are about to be knee deep in water.I guess Pelosi will believe it, "We must believe it before we see it."

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  • Kano
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    A long long time, sea level rise has actually decelerated since 2004, okay it's still going up by the thickness of a dime each year, but who says it will continue, it might stop altogether.

    Antarctic ice. actually I have a figure of 1.8 +-0.9 mm from that paper, and it also makes nonsense of the oceans taking up the heat.

    obviously the photo is a fake, but it makes no difference because you could fake it by taking the photo at different stages of tide, the way they do with glaciers, the earlier photos taking in winter and the NOW photos taken in autumn

    By the way I object to being called an Englishman I was born in Wales

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Sea level rise is slow, taking decades. Unfortunately that is still faster than the reaction time of modern political leadership.

  • 7 years ago

    Average sea level has been rising by about 3.2 mm per year since 1993.

    http://sealevel.colorado.edu/

    By volume, the seas are expanding by 800 Billion gallons per day.

  • 7 years ago

    Not for a long time. The AlGore bought a multimillion dollar ocean front estate.

  • 7 years ago

    "Massive" Sea level rise? Massive will likely NEVER happen.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Not in my lifetime. Nor my children's lifetime. And not in their children's children's lifetime.

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