Sea level rise is accelerating

He did - note the LINK

 

Ya the RGGI has a habit of claiming CO reductions that happened in the region due to cooler summers and the availability of cheap natural gas (2/3 the GHG emissions of coal and oil). It is a simple electricity tax that has no proven effect on GHG directly. That is why New Jersey pulled out.

 

Someday groundwater will dissolve Hawaii's islands completely...

Hawaiian Islands Are Dissolving from Within, Study Says
Dec. 21, 2012 — Most of us think of soil erosion as the primary force that levels mountains, however geologists have found that Oahu's mountains are dissolving from within due to groundwater.

 

Bit late for that really ... for years now the argument has been as much about mitigation as stopping (or at least slowing) the rise.

the insurance industry in some places is well ahead on this one - charging higher premiums in some regions ...
maybe not in the US though ... but I suspect that they should be.

 

and you reckon the "warmists" are into scaremongering!

 

you live in the wrong place if you think that was a fiasco.

 

your name is apt if you think that CFCs have not influenced the ozone layer.

 

It seems the Antarctic is melting twice as fast as was previously calculated.

 

likely living in the twilight zone...

 

the irony here is the highlighted part should all be conservative values...

 

because of the ice that are melting from other countries, it is contributing to the water level rising, soon it will take part of the earth's lands.

 

"...if you think that was a fiasco..."

Taxcutter says:
The American consumer and taxpayer paid through the nose to the tune of scores of billions and now has absolutely nothing to show for it.

Fiasco.

 

Obviously spoken from a place of complete ignorance. Beyond ignorance really. Filled with misinformation and duped by politically based propaganda is more like it.

 

Granny got Uncle Ferd an' possum puttin' pontoons onna side o' the trailer...

Global Warming Report: By End of Century, Sea Will Rise 0.66 Feet--Or 6.6 Feet
March 6, 2013 – An Obama administration-commissioned report predicts that because of climate change the global sea level will rise somewhere between 0.66 feet and 6.6 feet by the year 2100, citing a "lack of knowledge" as the reason for such a wide range of levels.

 

Granny says, "Dat's right - dem climate warming warnings not dire enough...

New Analysis Sees Major Climate Impact on Low-Lying Islands
April 11, 2013 - Talk of climate change always includes a warning about melting icecaps, which will raise sea levels and threaten island nations and coastal communities. But a new analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey says those warnings are not dire enough.

 

What did the US consumer and taxpayer get to show for his/her sacrifice?

Nothing.

The ozone hole is as big as before 1990. The ozone concentrations are unchanged. Nobody else made sacrifices of the scale the US made.

Fiasco.


BTW, the US abandoned Midway, Wake and Johnston Islands in the late 1990s. Nobody lives there.

 

course now we know that just a few month after you said this, NY did experience some of the worst floods in their history

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"NY did experience some of the worst floods in their history"

Taxcutter says:
Hurricanes commonly cause flooding.

 

And yet it's still there.

And no, these last few hurricanes are not the worst in history. Please stop exaggerating.

 

Caribbean showin' signs of sea level rise...

Encroaching sea already a threat in Caribbean
May 7,`13 -- The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges past a hastily-erected breakwater of truck tires and bundles of driftwood intended to hold back the Atlantic Ocean.

 

Maybe people should be thinking about not building stuff in coastal areas where the land is subsiding. Geoscience can now tell us which places are subsiding, and how fast, so there's no longer the excuse that "We didn't know!"

 

Time to open a Crab Shack in the western Antarctica...

 

I wonder if sea-water canals/lakes constructed across miles of global lowlands can be a cost-effective method of offsetting sea level rise? If sea level is going to rise by a billion cubic meters in the next ten years then just build a billion cubic meters of canals/lakes. And with more efficient desalinization technology many of these areas can also have potable water to encourage development.

I'm also curious if sea-level rise can be seen on the Atlantic and Pacific locks of the Panama Canal...hopefully one of the workers is placing a mark on the locks each month/year? I think it's all that fresh water flowing out of the Panama Canal every time a lock opens that is increasing sea levels in the Boston area...

 

http://www.uwec.edu/jolhm/EH4/Extinction/Map of the World Sea Level.jpg

We would lose Essex and Belgium. So yeah.....good news.

 

This is an interesting question because the answer only needs to be a single area which creates enormous problems for everyone else. Let's say southern Florida is the first to go...can this nation afford the effort to deal with relocation of southern Florida? What economic and emotional toll would this one action have on the USA?