Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Global Warming - No good news, very interesting data though. Our listening to stupid people is making problems which we need to face.

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2016/02/sea-level-rise-real-bad

The impact of that change is already being felt by Americans. From the New York Times:
[Scientists] also confirmed previous forecasts that if emissions were to continue at a high rate over the next few decades, the ocean could rise as much as three or four feet by 2100…The rise in the sea level contributes only in a limited degree to the huge, disastrous storm surges accompanying hurricanes like Katrina and Sandy. Proportionally, it has a bigger effect on the nuisance floods that can accompany what are known as king tides…The change in frequency of those tides is striking. For instance, in the decade from 1955 to 1964 at Annapolis, Md., an instrument called a tide gauge measured 32 days of flooding; in the decade from 2005 to 2014, that jumped to 394 days.

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